Cathode
Vintage Terminal
Cathode is a terminal app for the Mac with amazing visual effects and a deep focus on aesthetics.
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Fully Featured Terminal
A fast and stable terminal with all the mod-cons: drag and drop, scrollback, colors, key combos, international characters, and mouse support. Works with regular Mac fonts, but also includes a handful of bitmap classics.
Millions of Monitors
Choose from a large collection of themes spanning every era. Tweak to your heart's content with a dozen real-time sliders, including screen curvature, burn-in, interlace, and transparency. Use a webcam photo as glass reflection.
Dirty Details
The quirks and annoyances of old video hardware are charming today. Watch the strange dance of beam desyncs and shifting colors. Turn up the noise, jitter, and flicker to add a realistic warmth. Scan and retrace lines top it all off.
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Sound and Feedback
Cathode's many lifelike touches will bring a smile to your face. User configurable sound effects highlight your interactions. Ray tubes bounce as windows open and shake when they're moved.
Full-Screen Experience
Disregard thirty years of user interface progress by immersing yourself in full-screen mode. Impress curious onlookers in the lecture hall or cafe. Transform your modern marvel into a thrift-shop rescue.
More Than Just a Terminal
Cathode also includes a text editor mode. Open, save, and modify plain text files using standard Mac dialogs, menus, key combos, and gestures. You can even open image files to generate ASCII art.
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What's the Catch?
Cathode is free to use, but some undesirable effects are locked unless you purchase a license.
Requirements
- Mac OS 10.6+
- iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro - 2007+
- MacBook, MacBook Air - 2008+