Cathode Puts The Sex Back In Terminal Emulators [Video]

Twenty bucks for a terminal emulator when there’s already a superbly serviceable one in your Mac? Secret Geometry’s ” Cathode” makes an outstanding case for itself. It could actually appear as if nearly any terminal on any old flickering CRT monitor.

OSX-only Cathode is chocked filled with class. Not only can you tailor every mode for your nostalgia gland’s content, but even the try-before-you-buy mode is slick: rather than locking you out after so many minutes, Cathode instead degrades the quality of the terminal, making it flicker and waver even more than by default.

There are certainly a couple of bad memories unlocked by Cathode. Take place the baud rate on the simulated modem connection and then list a huge directory. You’ll be overwhelmed by a pretty but totally unreadable torrent of phosphors.

The only thing I will be able to recall to mind that might make Cathode even better can be a method where it uses your Mac’s built-in iSight to get an image of the room, then uses that to map the faked reflection within the screen.

I don’t desire a specialized terminal app in recent times, but if I did… [ Cathode via ROB ]

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