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From: Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu>
To: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] cathode
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:31:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190918083133.GA47585@indra.papnet.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009D825B-EF35-4310-8008-48EEB2D34D4B@jctaylor.com>

On 18/09/19, William Corcoran wrote:
> Hello TUHS on Tues.,
> 
> Warren Toomey suggested I let the group know about a utility that exists at least for iMacs and IOS devices.  
> 
> It’s called “cathode” and you can find it on the Apple App Store.   Please forgive me if this has already been mentioned. 
> 
> This utility provides for an xterm window that looks like the display an old *tube.   You can set the curvature of the glass, the glow, various scan techniques, 9600 speed, and so on.   

For the non-OS Xers there's cool-retro-term:
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Personally I think it could look more realistic. Looks like they went
for more of a movie-terminal look, but it's not easy to emulate a CRT
convincingly.

And I agree with Lars, I want cool-retro-asr33 (or 37)


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-18  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-18  1:40 William Corcoran
2019-09-18  3:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-09-18 14:01   ` Clem Cole
2019-09-18  8:31 ` Angelo Papenhoff [this message]
2019-09-18 10:24   ` Hugh Pyle
2019-09-18  9:05 ` Andy Kosela
2019-09-18  9:12   ` Steve Nickolas
2019-09-18 15:45   ` Adam Thornton
2019-09-18 15:35 ` Paul Winalski

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