Twenty long horse for a terminal emulator when there ’s already a dead serviceable one on your Mac ? Secret Geometry ’s “ Cathode ” makes a good face for itself . It can look like nearly any terminal on any old flickering CRT monitor .
OSX - only Cathode is chock full of class . Not only can you tailor each and every mode to your nostalgia gland ’s cognitive content , but even the try - before - you - buy way is glib : instead of locking you out after so many minutes , Cathode or else take down the quality of the end , making it flicker and waver even more than by default .
There are for sure a few bad store unlock by Cathode . Turn up the baud rate rate on the simulate modem connection and then list a braggart directory . You ’ll be submerge by a gorgeous but entirely unclear downpour of phosphors .
The only affair I can believe of that would make Cathode even better would be a mode in which it use your Mac ’s progress - in iSight to get an image of the way , then uses that to map the faked reflection in the screen .
I do n’t need a specialized terminal app these days , but if I did … [ CathodeviaROB ]
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