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    From Oli@21:3/102 to JoE DooM on Wed Dec 22 11:20:26 2021
    JoE wrote (2021-12-18):

    If you haven't seen it already, I'd recommend taking a look at
    cool-retro-term on github. It does a great job recreating amber &
    green screen terminals on MacOS or Linux. Pretty fun little toy.

    hahah that's fantastic, thanks for sharing.

    I wonder if that'll run on a Pi running linux.. Because that would be
    just perfect. :D

    I haven't tried, but it should compile on the Pi too:

    https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term#build-instructions-linux

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  • From McDoob@21:4/135 to Oli on Wed Dec 22 13:28:40 2021
    I haven't tried, but it should compile on the Pi too:


    That's the best part of compiling from source. Sure, it's not as easy as "apt-get install", but one can (generally) get any software to compile on any machine, even if there's no 'official' installer.

    McDoob
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to McDoob on Thu Dec 23 08:11:00 2021
    McDoob wrote to Oli <=-

    That's the best part of compiling from source. Sure, it's not as easy
    as "apt-get install", but one can (generally) get any software to
    compile on any machine, even if there's no 'official' installer.

    Back when I was supporting Solaris systems in the '90s, you'd find a binary package for gcc (since you couldn't compile it without a compiler) then the rest of whatever you wanted to add was from source.

    ./configure;make;make install did the trick for most source packages.


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  • From Pat Jensen@21:4/163 to All on Fri Dec 17 19:52:44 2021
    If you haven't seen it already, I'd recommend taking a look at cool-retro-term on github. It does a great job recreating amber & green screen terminals on MacOS or Linux. Pretty fun little toy.
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  • From JoE DooM@21:1/230 to Pat Jensen on Sat Dec 18 20:20:18 2021
    If you haven't seen it already, I'd recommend taking a look at cool-retro-term on github. It does a great job recreating amber &
    green screen terminals on MacOS or Linux. Pretty fun little toy.

    hahah that's fantastic, thanks for sharing.

    I wonder if that'll run on a Pi running linux.. Because that would be
    just perfect. :D


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  • From Greenlfc@21:2/150 to Pat Jensen on Sat Dec 18 06:34:46 2021
    I enjoy it, although when I installed it on my MacOS work computer the fonts were all wonky on the default profile. After adjusting it it worked great, though.

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  • From JoE DooM@21:1/230 to Pat Jensen on Sun Dec 19 06:54:14 2021
    If you haven't seen it already, I'd recommend taking a look at cool-retro-term on github. It does a great job recreating amber &
    green screen terminals on MacOS or Linux. Pretty fun little toy.

    So I started playing with it, and I'm now connected to my BBS using cool-retro-term and qodem under linux. qodem is a console based BBS
    terminal and is the perfect complement.

    It's brilliant. :)

    Thanks Pat!


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