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GLTerminal – Retro Terminal Simulator Updated for Mac OS X Leopard

August 10th, 2009 - Fun, Mac OS X, OS X Apps, Retro

vt220 GL Terminal 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. It’s 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 Termianl, or just want something fun to work in for a while, try out GLTerminal.

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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 OS X Terminal app does not provide.

GLTerminal screenshot

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Comments: 6

Comment from Fox Mulder
Time: August 10, 2009, 11:48 am

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

Comment from roddy
Time: August 13, 2009, 8:45 am

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!

Comment from roddy
Time: August 13, 2009, 11:51 am

Tried this again, between 10% & 20% now, bit better but still a bit high for a term program.

Comment from Dylan
Time: September 2, 2009, 4:49 pm

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!

Comment from someone
Time: October 6, 2009, 1:48 pm

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…

Comment from sajaki
Time: November 15, 2009, 8:13 am

it crashes on Snow leopard.

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