What about a background and font design option for Fullscreen mode resembling the terminals of Fallout 3?
Like here:
flickr.com/photos/escapist/3667052874/
:mrgreen:
That would be nice! Actually in 2.0 you can add a background image to full screen if you want, but there’s no way to change the font. There’s just no way to temporarily change the font in the Cocoa text system as there is to temporarily change the colour.
All the best,
Keith
P.S. I saw your post in another forum about full screen and was inspired to add a button in the 2.0 preferences that will allow you to choose an external texture image for the full screen paper colour - so you could apply a paper texture if you have one handy.
This truly is a bummer that I wish there was a fix for. So often, I like the terminal look…
The closest approximation to this on the mac is opening the vi editor in single user mode… you can crank out some typing…
of course, you have to remember all the vi commands to use it… I :w :wq A dd x I :q!
etc… and ever since snow leopard, vim opens for vi (boo!)
the bummer is that the only way I know to get into single user mode requires a shutdown, which messes up one’s uptime stat… you can make a terminal window set that fills the screen, but that’s not as fun…
Something like this; also spotted on these fair boards, which is alas somewhat quirky in Snow Leopard in that you have to always set up your preferences. And what you can’t see is that the screen is flickering at 50hz and that text does not all appear simultaneously, but rather assembles “slowly” across the screen at the roraring speeds that only an IBM XT 8088 can summon, after booting up your operating system from a floppy diskette for ten minutes.
But then, always having to set up your preferences every single time you start the program does kind of get you into the spirit.
NICE!!! But I never had an IBM, but I could probably tweak that to look like my old ATARI 1200XL.
I went from that to VT220 terminals and macs at skool, and then the spacrstations… nice.
Freely demonstrate the power of vi command mode to the young. Of particular awe-inspiring-guruiness is
:%s/search/replace/gAll the new kiddies realize that the old ways may actually be the better ways.
Put that in your pipe and :x it.
Anyone remember ed (edlin for those on even more obscure systems)? I can’t remember the exact “oh crap” sequence, but I think it was :1dG that would delete the file on disk instead of the buffer. And since it was a line editor you only needed to have the line in the file for it to happen. That was a lot of fun.
Yeah, I remember ed. The first time I installed Linux, that was all I had available in the bootstrap disk to edit etc files and get the main system up. Talk about crash diving into your computer. Learning a whole new operating system which exposes you to the hardware like nothing you’ve ever touched before, and having nothing but ed to sort things out with. 
You can still play with it—creaky old thing is installed on your Mac.
ed… I have vague recollections of such a thing. would that have been typical on a vax? I have those memories filed away in a place into which I never retrieve anything for good cause. I think ed was introduced as “available” right before they discussed vi and emacs
vi and I became friends and edlin was toast.
ed was one of the original editors on terminal systems (vax, pd##, etc).
ed is your friend for anything that supports full boot loader functions. Small mem footprint (only loads one line at a time), small code foot print (only needs to load one load at a time) and entirely text based. If i remember a conversation with a person who should know, the Sun/Oracle open boot code actually uses a version for configuration management.
But we digress.
As I have aged I figured this type of work is what they make jr admins for.
GTerminal.app has been supplanted, I think, by http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/.
Especially wonderful is the licensing scheme:
Here is a makeshift Terminal. Font used is Topaz.
Only drawback is that there is no appropriate keystroke sound and no flickering (might be solved by creating an animated gif?); also the first and last line is cropped.
Besides that, it is a cute thing 
