About this fork

This was my attempt at reviving this application. As luck would have it, the original author returned shortly after this fork was created, rendering this effort happily obsolete.

Previously the project has not been in active development for 3 years. This is tyoubin's fork, an attempt at reviving this application.

> Note: This fork is macOS-only. Linux support has been deprecated.

Fixed

• Application hangs when pressing Command + Q or closing the window on macOS
• Special characters not rendering on arm64 macOS

cool-retro-term

> Default Amber	C:\ IBM DOS	$ Default Green

Description

cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

It uses the QML port of qtermwidget (Konsole): https://github.com/tyoubin/qmltermwidget.

This terminal emulator requires Qt5. It's suggested that you stick to the latest LTS version.

Settings such as colors, fonts, and effects can be accessed via context menu.

Screenshots

Building on macOS

1. Install Qt 5 via Homebrew
   • brew install qt@5
   • add Qt 5's bin directory to your $PATH per Homebrew's Caveats message
2. Clone the codebase
   • git clone --recursive https://github.com/tyoubin/cool-retro-term.git
3. Go to the directory and compile
   • cd cool-retro-term
   • qmake -r
   • make -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
4. Optionally drag cool-retro-term.app to the /Applications folder