GLTerminal – Retro Terminal Simulator Updated for Mac OS X Leopard
I’ve been on a bit of a retro and minimalism kick lately, preferring simplified apps that take me back to the good old days of BBS’s and 2400bps modems (ok maybe not the modems), and when I saw that GLTerminal has a new release I was pleased since I can finally run it in a modern version of Mac OS X.
GlTerminal is basically just a Terminal replacement that uses GL to create the appearance of an oldschool terminal, complete with monitor curvature and all. Everything else works as it should, so if you’re looking for a fullscreen old school alternative for Terminal, or just want something fun to work in for a while, try out GLTerminal.
This is a PowerPC app so if you’re reading this from the future (present) on a modern version of MacOS, or an Intel Mac, or Apple Silicon, you might find the app does not work. But otherwise, amazingly enough, these old links still work!
Still not convinced? Check out this screenshot below, it will make your Mac look like it’s in 1986!
Note: a reader pointed out that if you disable the display curvature, you can use this app to have a high resolution full screen Terminal to work in, something that the default Mac OS X Terminal app does not provide.
it crashes on Snow leopard.
If all you want is just a full-screen terminal, then iTerm might do the trick quite nicely. That said, I would really like to have something like terminator from tenshu.net natively on a mac, splitting the terminal window into many shells etc…
This is great! I’d love a universal version though. I’d rather not install Rosetta if I don’t need to on my shiny new 10.6 intel machine. Cheers!
Tried this again, between 10% & 20% now, bit better but still a bit high for a term program.
Tried this, great geek value and was planning to use it but when i done a top command on it noticed that it was taking 70% cpu!
the only reason I downloaded this app is so I could run terminal full screen, why doesn’t apple allow that in their terminal utility?
the funky curviture settings are weird so you can just turn all that off and have a nice full screen high resolution terminal window to geek out in, very cool