Vintage Terminal
Fully Featured:
– Fast and Accurate Emulation
– Dynamic Scrollback Buffer
– 256 Colors
– Unicode*
– 12 Retro Fonts
Great Mac Integration:
– Drag and Drop Files
– Customizable Keyboard
– Mouse Copy/Paste
– Command-Click to Open URLs
– Save/Recall Favorite Commands
Special Effects:
– Choose from a large collection of themes spanning every era.
– Tweak to your heart’s content with a dozen real-time sliders.
– Effects include screen curvature, burn-in, scan-lines, and transparency.
– Glowing halos simulate the human eye’s reaction to intense brightness.
– Slow down the bitrate like an old modem.
Dirty Details:
– The quirks of old electronics are charming to the modern eye.
– Watch the strange dance of horizontal desyncs and splitting colors.
– Turn up the static, jitter, and flicker to add an analog warmth.
– Pixels burn-in and slowly fade away when turned off.
– Slow-motion retrace lines show the picture being refreshed.
Hyperrealism:
– Cathode’s many lifelike touches constantly surprise and delight.
– Ray tubes burst open in new windows and bounce as they’re moved.
– Dynamic perspective, lighting, and shadows raise the bar for app visuals.
– Customizable sound effects highlight your interactions.
– Use an image or webcam photo as glass reflection.
Full-Screen Experience:
– Immerse yourself and disregard thirty years of user interface progress.
– Impress curious onlookers at work, school, or the cafe.
– Zoom in on virtual pixels for blocky resolutions.
– Works great with multiple monitor setups.
– Hide the clutter of modern computing.
But Wait, There’s More!:
– Cathode isn’t just a terminal, it’s also a great text editor.
– Use familiar dialogs, menus, key combos, and gestures.
– Open any image file to generate ASCII art.
– View your webcam feed as real-time ASCII art.
– Save screenshots.
Requirements:
– iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro: 2007 or newer
– MacBook, MacBook Air, Mac mini: mid-2008 or newer
– Unsupported graphics cards: Intel GMA 950 and X3100, ATI Radeon X1600
