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GLTerminal for OS X
I'm a Mac girl who spends most of her time hanging in the terminal, so you may say old school stuff makes me happy. If that's the case, then I'm jumping for joy at the extra old-schoolness of this GLTerminal port for OSX.
As if my use of terminal-based chat centericq weren't enough, I have put a screen shot of centericq running in this "classic" amber terminal using GLTerminal on my OS X box. Yum.
If you want to make this work, in GLTerminal go to Preferences -> Renderer -> Plugin and choose "Classic Terminal" and your Phosphor Color of choice (white, matrix green, or amber). Also, don't forget that to jump out of full screen mode you will need to use command-return.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FIsh said 4:57PM on 2-01-2006
Very, very cool!
I love how this stuff comes out for OS X... The people that write code for OS X are so creative!
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Stern said 5:10PM on 2-01-2006
Neat, but doesn't seem to work with non-US keyboard layouts.
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Fabienne Serriere said 6:22PM on 2-01-2006
um actually, as i mentioned above, this has been out for many operating systems before osx.
cheers,
fbz
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Eric B. said 11:30PM on 2-01-2006
Thank you for the find Fabienne.. I still log into a MajorBBS system to chat with my buddies every day. Something so much cooler to the old school BBS than IM to us. The built in delay brings my back to my 2400 baud modem.. ahh.. slow scrolling text is soothing.
I really need to let go..
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Lachy said 6:26PM on 2-05-2006
This is super cool. We really need this as a screen saver. Anyone know of a similar screensaver or how to port this to a screensaver?
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Phill Kenoyer said 1:23PM on 2-09-2006
You should set your TERM to linux to see the lines.
export TERM=linux
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