Get A Fun Vintage Terminal For Mac Pro

Here is a pretty cool terminal app for Mac OSX. Called, it brings back some retro fun (for those over 30).

It is $10 at the app store which seems pricey for a terminal app. However, after playing with it, it is loads of fun for old timers like myself.

It simulates old Cathode tube monitors from days past. You can pretend you are working on an old Lost era 1970 Aames research terminal, a 286 from 1980, even a Commodore 64, a Pet, or pretty much any old UNIX workstations long before flat panel LCD.

You even have the degauss effects, blur, random jitter, RF static as if you are on a real old school terminal. In short, cool. I had low expectations; thinking it would come with at most, 3-4 themes. I was pleasantly surprise to see the myriad of options: screen themes, monitor faceplate themes, fonts, and you can even configure the background CRT reflection. In short, you can configure this in a hundred different permutations. Hp probook 6460b bluetooth drivers for mac download. For example, you can pretend you have Commodore 64 connected to a 9' TV from 1976 with a janky RF adapter.

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You'll get the RF backfeed, fuzz, noise, scan-lines, and refresh. If you are old enough to remember switching between Channel 3 and 4 due to local tv station back-feed while connecting a home computer to a television set in the 80s, you'll know what I am talking about.