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While we're on the topic, Cool Retro Term is open source or free and so much fun to play with. I have a real thing for the amber monitors. I got to see some ancient ones still operating the world in my early career on the dying open outcry trading floors of the American Stock Exchange in the mid 2000s. LMGTFY: https://www.google.com/search?q=amber+monitor&tbm=isch&sourc...:



Yes, I'm adding to the tangent here, but..

I use these 2:

https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle

http://sensi.org/~svo/glasstty/

in combination with a regular terminal application to achieve my retro vt220 VAX/BSD UNIX goodness. Doesn't have the phosphor fade like the above, but still feels pretty 'right'.


Here is a link to the github repo with the images and codebase: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term




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