I used to use cool retro term just for the vibes<p><a href="https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term</a>
Cool little use of VHS! I particularly enjoyed the Jurassic Park one. Made me realize I could always have my terminal like that, I don’t <i>have</i> to use black at 25% transparency like I have without question for years. So thanks for that.<p>And for those who missed it, and were perhaps a bit confused about VHS, here’s its recent release announcement on HN (12 days ago):
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33357956" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33357956</a>
"VHS" as the name of a software project seems like it'll be doomed to obscurity, because it's effectively impossible to find in a search engine unless you include other very specific keywords.
I miss Cathode. It was a Mac application that allowed to mimic bad CRTs (cathode ray tubes). Effects included jitter, scan lines, and flicker. <a href="https://youtu.be/Q7uXxiRhpbE" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Q7uXxiRhpbE</a>
<a href="https://asciinema.org/" rel="nofollow">https://asciinema.org/</a><p>If you want to record and playback actual terminal activity instead of writing a script that’s somewhat more likely to become out of date.
From the beep man page, a one-liner for " a cheesy 1970's style beep-as-you-type-each-letter effect"<p>cat file | beep -c -f 400 -D 50 -l 10
We got a little terminal effect on our homepage (CSS with 3d transformation). It'll be too small on mobile.<p><a href="https://www.languagereactor.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.languagereactor.com/</a><p>I mean to get around to hooking it up to a real-time healthcheck of our backend servers. Could do something more interactive but lack time.
I actually needed some scrolling terminal text for an animation project I completed recently. It is more difficult than you might think: getting the glow and grain right, getting the typewriter effect (one character after another) etc. Wish I knew of VHS then.
cw: ranting, old man shakes fist at cloud<p>First, "Datassette" has nothing to do with tape-based storage for the C64, and now "VHS" has nothing to do with tape-based storage for video.<p>This is a nice project with cool results, but we're not out of names for things. Is nothing sacred?