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A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

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not directly related, but I've been thinking about getting an old CRT monitor, launch https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term and start working
This puts me in mind of Cool Retro Term. Lots of built in schemes.

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

Usually packaged by your distro.

Made me think of cool retro term, which I haven't checked out in I want to say 10 years...lo and behold someone already applied this to the green version haha

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070715-16...

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

I hope it gets modules to make it look as awesome as Cool Retro Term:

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 :)

Cool-Retro-Term gives a fun approximation of an amber CRT.

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

For a cool look like old-timey display check out https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

So your terminal looks like snowy channel 3. Fun!

In some sense it's not a good terminal emulator (I hit several glitches in it on macOS, though it seems to do better on my NixOS machine), but I'm in love with cool-retro-term for its gorgeous CRT-style visuals.

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

I mention it because it doesn't have tabs, saved sessions, or any of the other features tmux handles.

So, it's not a bad fit for heavy tmux users.

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

If you're reading comments on this article, this may interest you.

I just love the look of it. Nostalgia all the way.

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

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

Wonderful! I love the "crack" progress bar running through the directory tree. bpytop[0] in cool-retro-term[1] looks quite similar while being genuinely useful.

[0]: https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop

[1]: 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-...

Shame this doesn't come with some screenshots. I assume people will eventually be able to recreate the kinds of effects that cool retro term has.

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

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term is pretty good at emulating the old terminals, from memory the DOS stuff is pretty close to what the old CGA's mono monitors looked like.
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

Looks cool!

Obligatory note: Cool Retro Term (CRT) https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term is pretty cool ;)

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

> 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
I've been wanting something sort of like this for my login screen. Little box for the login, of course and a whole bunch of scary-to-everyone-but-me looking output, like hollywood (https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood). +1 if I could use the terminal emulator of my choice so cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term) could make it look like the screen is about to melt.
Similar project is cool-retro-term [1] although I think the defaults are a little over the top.

[1] 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)
Haha! This really works. I downloaded the MacOS release and tried it out. As they said, it used a lot of CPU (25%), but it looks great. I'm going to pull this out the next time I need to impress some kids with my job.

I occasionally like using a very different terminal just to break out of mental ruts. In the past I’ve used Cool Retro Term for its funky looks.

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

The project’s Github page is a better link: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

It’s available for Mac even though the blog post doesn’t mention it.

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
The demo video reminded me of WarGames :)

Made a short video using https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term to get an even more 70s/80s feel, but some of the characters don't come out too well...

http://vimeo.com/215864177

CRT (cool-retro-term) is a nice, free alternative to Cathode and runs on Linux too.

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

Or you could just run cool-retro-term[1] for the similar visual effect.

[1]: 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

;-)

Using this together with cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term) produces quite awesome results: http://imgur.com/gallery/i1LtkK7/