This is obviously just for fun, but since it is a terminal you could absolutely do real work within the goofy looking vintage environment if you wanted to.Īnd of course if you just want to look at some screen shots of the visual possibilities in this beauty, here we go:Īs you can see there are no shortage of visual customizations and effect filters to adjust, so get the app and have some fun.Īnd yes, if you’ve been a longtime reader of osxdaily than you have undoubtedly noticed we are fans of retro computing, and we have mentioned similar apps around here some time ago, but Cool Retro Term is by far the most elaborate and well crafted of the Terminal emulators, plus it runs in MacOS Sierra and Mac OS X El Capitan too. Cool-Retro-Term from the developer on Github here.It’s not quite the antikythera mechanism, but it’s close enough for some of us.Ĭool Retro Term is available for Mac OS X and for Linux, which makes the most sense given the Terminal replacement, but it’s open sourced too just in case you want to try and port it over to your TI-85 graphing calculator or Nokia flip phone. From that grungy looking amber on black text, to green on black, or white on black text, but the real fun comes with the various display effects of screen burn, jitters, scan lines, flickering, screen curvature, and the big blocky pixels that defined the dinosaur computing error. Basically Cool Retro Term functions as a Terminal.app alternative that is heavily stylized to replicate that wonderful vintage look, and you can choose between a whole variety of color schemes and display effects to emphasize this.
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