Filed under: Fun, Macintosh, Freeware
Retro glass terminal for OS X
by Jordan Running Feb 1st 2006
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]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
