What does HackerNews think of cool-retro-term?

This one is not for AR/VR, but still: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

If no-one missed amber monitors, this repo wouldn't have 18,000 stars:

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

QED :)

I was just wondering the same thing. The closest I’ve found with my Googling is: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

You can get pretty close with a modern LCD and something like https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.

It could also use scan lines and the beautiful effects of glowing phosphor.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

And I don't wanna be that Vim guy, but similarly a mix of these plugins works well for me:

https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim (distraction free mode)

https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil (better behaviour for writing prose)

https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim (visual highlighting of current paragraph)

https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown (better markdown syntax)

https://vim-voom.github.io/ (outliner sidebar)

Edit:

BTW, for my truly favourite aesthetic experience, I like to pair this setup with a nice dark theme, a high quality font, and cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/) emulating an old school CRT. Is this practical or ergonomic? Nope! But I love it!

There's one screenshot in their blog [1]. Unfortunately, it's not clear from the announcement just how flexible this is. It would be fun if it's capable of effects like cool-retro-term[2].

(EDIT: There was a "retro terminal effect" released a year ago, and the announcement for that version [3] shows it affecting the whole window. A quick search through the Microsoft Terminal source suggests this new feature is an extended version.)

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...

[2]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

[3]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...

Supporting the signalling, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833111 was definitely a product of the VCR era.

See also the expressed scanlines in the "faked" 80's of the first video in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398456 .

As for exaggerated curvature, surely we've all run across https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term by now?

Every time old fonts come up, I have to mention Cool Retro Term:

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Sorry for the music in this video, but cool-retro-term really is a thing of beauty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWx7REAQ2MY

Related for work: Cool Retro Term (CRT) - an actual retro terminal for your day!

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

intel_gpu_top helped me solve a mysterious performance issue on a MacBook after countless hours of fruitless investigation. Overheating and throttling was an issue but even after I fixed it the system would lag hard - instantly when I used the external 4k display, and after a while on the internal 1440p screen. Turns out cool-retro-term was maxing out the integrated Intel GPU which caused the entire system to stutter and lag.

Unfortunately both the MBP and my current XPS 15 are unable to drive cool-retro-term on a 4k display with the CPU integrated graphics, and they both overheat and throttle if I use the nvidia graphics card :/

It's a really cool terminal though: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Those who want this look (or other retro looks) in a terminal [1]

[1] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

> there are some super swanky terminals and emulators that have that part already done Like 'cool-retro-term': https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

It's not an emulator, but if you're looking for a little nostalgia you might get a kick out of Cool Retro Term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term)

I recommend Cool Retro Term. No tabs. Not a lot of features. Emulation can be a little strange. But it's cross-platform and a metric ass ton of fun.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

And if you push the settings right, you can use it to convince the procurement department that you need a new monitor.

According to another poster they have a Mac version available on their GitHub page. I checked and they do.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

See also crt: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Never fear, you're already covered: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Here is a link to the github repo with the images and codebase: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

There's another one called "cool retro term" that will run on more operating systems.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

You could use cool-retro-term[0] for the visual side, but that doesn't support baud rate emulation either. Maybe you could pipe things through `pv` with the `-L` flag to limit speed?

[0]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

This is awesome! I looked in my package manager and saw there's also an open-source cathode terminal emulator that also supports Linux: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Very similar to Cathode, and free: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

There's https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

That's ludicrous. You can get better scanlines by using Cathode or Cool Retro Term, and the latter comes with the beautiful 3270 font that stands upon the long clean design heritage of IBM's 360/379 line. This beautiful font, by the way, you can take for a spin on any civilized operating system by simply typing `apt-get install 3270font`. Go, try it.

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font

;-)

Alternately, there is 'cool-retro-term':

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term