vintage terminals with xscreensaver

a while ago i stumbled upon a really cool vintage terminal called cathode (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode). unfortunately, thus far it’s only available for mac os x. i’ve been looking for a similar terminal for linux.

i haven’t really found anything that’s equivalent to cathode, but today i found out that 2 xscreensaver modules (apple2 and phosphor) can be used as terminal emulators like so:
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -program bash -text -fast
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -program bash -scale 2 delay 1000

anyways, it’s fun to play around with.

sources:
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2004/02/xscreensaver-415/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=40499

This entry was written by resinblade , posted on Tuesday July 10 2012at 09:07 am , filed under IT . Bookmark the permalink . Post a comment below or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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