Miss your old CRT?

Post #339,115 by SpiceWare 1/26/11 2:22:30 PM Reply	Miss your old CRT? Then harken back to yesteryear with this terminal emulator for OS X http://www.secretgeo...com/apps/cathode/ It's most effective in full-screen mode. You can also dial the speed down all the way to 110 baud.
Post #339,116 by SpiceWare 1/26/11 3:32:13 PM Reply	in action http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=2rSRWCiBIAw at the moment only the low-res version is ready to view. It should look better once YouTube finishes processing it.
Post #339,127 by SpiceWare 1/26/11 5:12:30 PM Reply	YouTube's still crappy - here's the video at my site http://www.spiceware...ovies/Cathode.mov
Post #339,117 by drook 1/26/11 3:39:28 PM Reply	Lovely Disregard thirty years of GUI advancement by immersing yourself in full-screen mode. Impress curious onlookers at internet cafes. -- Drew
Post #339,119 by beepster 1/26/11 3:44:36 PM Reply	No access to youtube... ...does the think render ascii graphics? (as the globe implies?) Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #339,123 by SpiceWare 1/26/11 4:50:28 PM 1/26/11 4:52:07 PM Reply	terminal/shell/dos prompt/etc http://www.spiceware...mages/Cathode.jpg Complete with video glitches, phosphor trails, etc. Edited by SpiceWare Jan. 26, 2011, 04:52:07 PM EST Expand All History
Post #339,125 by folkert 1/26/11 5:02:30 PM 1/26/11 5:14:36 PM Reply	xscreensaver has one... Its called Apple2 Here is the description: Simulates an original Apple ][ Plus computer in all its 1979 glory. It also reproduces the appearance of display on a color television set of the period. In "Basic Programming Mode", a simulated user types in a BASIC program and runs it. In "Text Mode", it displays the output of a program, or the contents of a file or URL. In "Slideshow Mode", it chooses random images and displays them within the limitations of the Apple ][ display hardware. (Six available colors in hi-res mode!) On X11 systems, This program is also a fully-functional VT100 emulator. http://en.wikipedia....i/Apple_II_series Written by Trevor Blackwell. I ran it like this: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -text -fast -program bash Edited by folkert Jan. 26, 2011, 05:14:36 PM EST Expand All History
Post #339,128 by folkert 1/26/11 5:21:06 PM Reply	Re: xscreensaver has one... There is another called "phosphor" very similar.
Post #339,129 by SpiceWare 1/26/11 5:32:55 PM Reply	not installed in Ubuntu There were only 10 screensavers installed. I selected the others from the package manager, but apple2 wasn't amongst them. Phosphor did get installed with the others, but it's not as well done as Cathode.
Post #339,142 by folkert 1/26/11 10:34:27 PM Reply	Didn't say it was. All I said is there are other implementations of old stuff hanging around.
Post #339,146 by SpiceWare 1/27/11 12:14:05 PM Reply	I know All the Linux distributions I'd used in the past had a bunch of xscreensavers installed, I was just surprised that Ubuntu only had the 10.
Post #339,147 by folkert 1/27/11 12:23:46 PM Reply	They are now using... gnome-screensaver... because as we all know its better to re-write everything already done to the nth degree to get better performance and functionality... and "sane defaults" No... its not your fault... just teh awesomest Gnome development team. I use gnome now, as its the only GTK environment being currently supported by many packages. Bleah.
Post #339,150 by static 1/27/11 3:13:23 PM Reply	There are x-screensaver packages. The main one can finally now actually replace the gnome-screensaver package properly, too, by which I mean a menu item, and startup when you login. I think someone fought back at the usurping happening with gnome-screensaver. :-) Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #339,152 by folkert 1/27/11 5:09:29 PM Reply	Nice to know that... SOMEONE is fighting the good fight... At least on fluff things like screensavers.
Post #339,153 by static 1/27/11 5:50:30 PM Reply	Yah. Pity hasn't extended all that far yet. I'd like better WindowMaker integration... you can run it, but a lot of the hardware management has migrated into GNOME itself. :-/ So I have to manually run gnome-settings-daemon to get both monitors working correctly. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #339,628 by pwhysall 2/10/11 1:30:02 AM Reply	Re: Miss your old CRT? Fun, but not $20 worth of fun.

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