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ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

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~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

Who knows where i can find it?
Like this:
http://www.wps.com/NOVA4/images/D410-terminal.jpg
I do not care about usabilyty or other thigs I just want at least minimaly working (cp, ls, pwd) imitation.

Last edited by ProzacR (2007-11-30 23:08:19)

flx

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Registered: 2006-01-06

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

All Linux terminals are basically emulations of those things. Just change the colours to amber on black and use an oldschool shell like the heirloom sh and you should have something almost as annoying as the real thing.;)

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

If you want the real thing, just track down an old DEC terminal (VT100, VT220) on eBay. Linux still has the code to talk to one over a serial line, though the configuration may be tricky; it's not exactly a common setup.

phrakture

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

I have one! I love DEC terminals /me hugs it

Bought mine from a reseller for about $50 I think

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ProzacR

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

Hmm to buy real thing is really nice idea. But 50$ for toy is little too expensive for me.
And flx, all Linux terminals now use lots of colors and large resolution, small fonts... So there is not much visual similarities left; not only color is different.

Dusty

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

resolution and font can be customized on your linux console too. resolution is finding the right vga= parameter in your boot loader and font can be set in rc.conf.

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Gilneas

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Registered: 2006-10-22

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

/usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -program bash -text
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -delay 1000 -program bash -scale 3

The second one is a bit more user friendly but less vintage.

Hahahah! That is awesome!
Too bad phosphor clears the part where something moves over it, and they both don't work very well with screen (edit: a screen without hardstatus or anything like that seems to work fine)
apple2 has a -fast option I noticed.

Last edited by Gilneas (2007-12-01 23:34:51)

ProzacR

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

WOW ty

Gilneas

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Registered: 2006-10-22

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

About the Apple2 screensaver, it seems to have two different versions, one true black & white, and one black & yellow/blue/white.
The true black & white one is a lot easier on the eyes. The man page mentions some X(defaults?) resources analogTVTint, analogTVColor, analogTVBrightness, and analogTVContrast. I'll try to experiment a bit with this. (edit: didn't seem to make any difference at all)

And a lot of keys don't work from F-keys to page up/down and the arrow keys.

Also, it's surprisingly big on resources, compare this:

--> ps -A -ao comm,size,rss,vsize | grep aterm  
aterm             792  2092   3948
--> ps -A -ao comm,size,rss,vsize | grep screen
screen           2712  3372   5240
screen            472   972   3000
--> ps -A -ao comm,size,rss,vsize | grep sithwm 
sithwm            244  1040   2696
--> ps -A -ao comm,size,rss,vsize | grep firefox
firefox           400  1412   3092
firefox-bin     180852 100136 223872
--> ps -A -ao comm,size,rss,vsize | grep apple2 
apple2           2428  9184  12240

(edit: and really awful on CPU resources 70% )

Last edited by Gilneas (2007-12-02 06:50:14)

Gilneas

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Registered: 2006-10-22

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

telnet nethack.alt.org lol
Works like a charm (even numpad movement) it insta-scrolls at the left/right edge.

Gilneas

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Re: ~1970 style terminal emulator for Linux?

Phosphor is much nicer on resources, with a high delay (100) it shouldn't use up much CPU. (a delay of 0 does)
Sometimes it misses a few characters though (I wonder if that's intentional).
And I need to redraw the entire screen each time I 'alt-tab' to it (or after overlapping another window). Does anyone else have that issue too?

(edit: screenshot - after a blink of the cursor the character under it isn't redrawn, so I'm invisible)

Last edited by Gilneas (2007-12-02 11:26:50)