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

105 mentions on Hacker News by 91 people: 16 stories, 89 comments · first 2014-07-03 · latest 2026-09-20

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  1. There is a osx branch ( https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/tree/osx ) that compiles.
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    Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display
    story by tasoeur · 2014-10-02 · 85 comments
  3. I'm late, but there is now a similar *nix terminal emulator: https://github.com/Swordifish90/cool-old-term
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    Cool Old Terminal – Awesome emulator
    story by ionicabizau · 2014-07-29 · 11 comments
  5. …you can just run the following: /usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -text -fast -bs -program bash [1] https://github.com/Swordifish90/cool-old-term
    comment by gerbal · 2014-07-03 · in Cathode vintage terminal