Nice Cool Retro Terminal for Linux / MacOS

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Nice Cool Retro Terminal for Linux / MacOS

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Found this cool retro terminal on GitHub available for MacOS and Linux. It can even be configured to an Atari ST look and feel.


https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

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Re: Nice Cool Retro Terminal for Linux / MacOS

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Or you can download my truetype/opentype font and use it. Antialias gives best results, the pixel perfect rendering only works in FontForge because of rounding errors of each engine.
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Edit : you can also use it as the default font for the desktop theme.
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Now all the interfaces have an Atari ST flavor...
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I've been using the ST high-res font on all my machines under The X Windowing System since STonX was released in the early 90s.

Unfortunately more and more X display servers have bitmap fonts disabled by default now.

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I really like it! Running on my Mac now - big thanks!
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Nice, I'll have to get that for my Mac when I can be bothered to compile it :D
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Just downloaded and I love the default amber screen view on it :)

I wonder if they'll compile it for Apple Silicon, as I can't be bothered to recompile :dizzy:

Runs fine under Rosetta though.

Full screen on my MBP M1 Pro:

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