Well, at least in a visual way.
Cathode satisfies our grief for nostalgia by providing a beautiful detailed emulation of old school bitmap fonts and tv/monitor behavior.
With endless customization options you can build the setup of your youth like you remember it.
Some of the features:
Beautiful Bitmaps
Choose from a handful of classic bitmap fonts, or, use a modern one already installed on your machine. Turn up the interlace for extra authenticity.
Look and Feel
Bask in the glow of over-bright phosphors that flash on and slowly fade away. Customize the screen's curvature, colors, and transparency. Slow the bit-rate to a crawl.
Wear and Tear
Watch the strange dance of beam desyncs and shifting colors. Turn up the noise, jitter, and flicker to add a realistic warmth.
Technology
Written in modern OpenGL and Cocoa for a thoroughly Mac-like experience. Most of the app's processing is done on the GPU.
Its free to use but the display quality will slowly degrade until the app is relaunched, you can disable this by buying a license for 20$.
My own Theme c128 on a 1991 lcd :3
After combining c64ish fonts with a bit higher resolution i was stunned to see that this basically resamples the nt3.51/4 save mode.
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The six pictures in the middle look amazing. Although, I'd never turn my computer into that.
:( i miss the old days.
haha that piggy looks sick!
aaahhh it takes me back!
nostalgia!
That's some great nostalgia!
Lol ugly old pc's! :D
feels like im going through a time machine
brings me back to the good old days of Ms-Dos.
Haha you had to have skills to use a computer back then
woah aha I haven't seen this forever, brings back memories man
nostalgia'd hard here
same!
yeah, those were the good ole days. i dont miss them though ;)
oh man do want
That top graphic reminds me of Cult of The Dead Cow.
moooose knuckles
great
now in english please? :D
Lol, amazing!
looks cool
Very retro, I like it but I don't know if i could put up with it for too long.
lol, why anyone would want to go back to those awful screens is beyond me... suppose some people dig that sort of thing :L
Old good times! it looks great! thanks for remember me this :)
what is this i dont even
oldschool soooo cool :)
brings back memories. good times
This is mildly relevant to my noninterests.
miss the simplicity of computing back in the old days
cool tech blog, *followed*
Nice. Haven't used a CRT in years. Nostalgic.
amazing!!
http://all-around-toto.blogspot.com/
man this goes way back it's awesome :D
thanks for posting that!
http://le-nerd.blogspot.com/
I remember those days. doh!
I feel so old now.
is like going back in time.
That looks so cool. It's like a mini time machine.
OMG that brings back some memories, of when downloading a song in ONLY 10 minutes was SUPERFAST!
LOL! I would love to use this when having a meeting with a client, just to mess with them. Screens like this make me want to bust out the breakdancing music for some reason...
ahahahah that's awesome
Wow. A terminal emulator. Who would have thought.
The MS-dos golden age, i for one dont miss it
haha that's awesome!
Sweet jebus!
Thats really awesome! I wish I had one! Just being supportive :)
"Watch the strange dance of beam desyncs and shifting colors. Turn up the noise, jitter, and flicker to add a realistic warmth."
hahahaha, ohh memories.
The nostalgia of that would be great... for a few minutes. And then I'd probably get sick of it. :)
talk about throwback
oLD SCHOOL
We should have stopped at 8-bit.
W0u;d hAv3 MAd3 th15 A !0t hArd3R t0 r3aD.
first computer that I learn in standard 3...
ahaha wow classic! brings me back
Wow, I love classic things like this! Thank you for sharing!
Retroooo!
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Excellent post man! Was a really interesting read! thanks for sharing!
Haha. That's great. Retro all the way.
I love the ascii dog.
That's friggan awesome! Who really would want to work with it for real now though.
/me sticks with terminal
Now thats oldschool!
haha this is awesome
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