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Comment by vinkelhake | Hacker News Reader

Shame this doesn't come with some screenshots. I assume people will eventually be able to recreate the kinds of effects that cool retro term has.

https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

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Here's what the Retro.hlsl[0] looks like: https://www.bleepstatic.com/images/news/Microsoft/Windows-10... [1]

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/samples/Pixe... [1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-term...

I get the nostalgic pull but it looks horrible compared to a clean nicely themed terminal.

The other example you replied too looks so much better.

Cool-Retro-Terms white noise effect is amazing for legibility. In screenshot, meh, but in action it makes reading much easier on my eyes. The readability improvements from my filter setup is so great that I use CRT on my mac despite the insane number of compromises (no tabs, crashes now and then, copy and paste is strange, limited scrollback, latency measured in who knows how many 100s of ms).

Other similar programs don't have the same type of white noise effect, they don't improve legibility at all.

whoa. i never thought about that. do you just feel better reading? im curious how it could actually be working. maybe its rotating which rods and cones are getting hit more and so your eye is getting a more continuous signal somehow

I liken it to film grain.

Very light film grain makes videos easier to watch, one of the early complaints of all digital cinemas was that they were too "crisp".

None of the CRT presets are what I particularly like, but I've got it customized to an extent that IMHO it is super easy on the eyes.

From the examples it's not obvious how to do the curved CRT effect.

BTW, every window on the screen should have this functionality. Reminds me of the "Out of Context Menus" I had on my PPC-based pre-OSX Macs. You could apply a gaussian blur to the window from the context menu. Or adjust the vertical sync.

You can just sample the texture from a different position, though you'll need to calculate what part of the text should show where (and possibly snap the position to the middle of the pixel / implement custom interpolation).

There's a context menu for settings to set the curvature, it's under the "Effects" tab: https://imgur.com/a/RazVuRD

Searching the repo for "curvature" shows you what they are doing with Qt: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/search?q=curv...

No. Not in CRT. In the shader language.

Dammit... How I want to star my Windows box...

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