Filed under: Fun, Macintosh, Freeware
Retro glass terminal for OS X
by Jordan Running Feb 1st 2006 at 1:05PM
Sure, anyone can
set their terminal font to green on black and feel l33t but if you really want to go old-school you need GLTerminal. It's a full-screen terminal app for OS X that will make
your screen look like an old 1970s tube monitor "complete with flaws in brightness, warped display curvature, and
flicker." It also simulates screen lag and you can choose green or amber text. Though it really does work,
GLTerminal is "slighly broken," not open source, and abandonware, but industrious hackers are working as we
speak to smooth out some of the kinks.[Via Boing Boing]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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