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Hidden Windows Terminal goodies to check out: Retro mode that emulates blurry CRT display – and more
The Register ^
| Aug 27, 2020
| Tim Anderson
Posted on 08/28/2020 3:40:38 PM PDT by dayglored
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I just downloaded and installed this from the Windows Store, and it's awesome. Nice job, Microsoft!
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posted on
08/28/2020 3:40:38 PM PDT
by
dayglored
To: Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ATOMIC_PUNK; bajabaja; ...
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posted on
08/28/2020 3:41:19 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Retro mode emulates a blurry CRT displayYeah great, I've just been pining for those days again.
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posted on
08/28/2020 3:49:16 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
To: Bullish
Always-on-top mode...
That's what she said
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posted on
08/28/2020 3:58:54 PM PDT
by
salmon76
(You can vote your way into socialism, but you'll have to shoot your way out)
To: dayglored
Too bad they can’t get windows 10 to work right.
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posted on
08/28/2020 4:00:40 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: salmon76
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posted on
08/28/2020 4:01:14 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
To: salmon76
To: dayglored
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posted on
08/28/2020 4:19:34 PM PDT
by
kdr3
To: Bullish
“Yeah great, I’ve just been pining for those days again. “
Oh lord. 3 AM looking at green letters.
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posted on
08/28/2020 4:33:23 PM PDT
by
dljordan
To: Bullish
Next: double-retro mode where it flickers or breaks up into horizontal lines until you slap the top of your monitor.
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posted on
08/28/2020 4:49:48 PM PDT
by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: dayglored
They certainly have come a long way since the invention of computers. From what I can see, it’s just a modified dos. Need my old clothes and let my hair grow again.
rwood
To: kdr3
They are still out there in one form or another. More than half of all commercial transactions are processed by a system using these someplace.
Give me a VT220 any day for async terminal access. Sleek, ergonomic and sharp, readable fonts. But the Baden have all crossed over the sea.
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posted on
08/28/2020 4:55:01 PM PDT
by
epluribus_2
(He, had the best mom - ever.)
To: epluribus_2
Vaxes, Vaxen transmuted to Baden by nefarious Grues.
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posted on
08/28/2020 4:58:06 PM PDT
by
epluribus_2
(He, had the best mom - ever.)
To: dayglored
Does it display old fashioned BSODs?
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posted on
08/28/2020 5:03:33 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
To: dayglored
Microsoft can’t get a single piece of software correct, but their devs have time for this nonsense?
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posted on
08/28/2020 5:05:33 PM PDT
by
dinodino
To: dljordan; Campion
And Oh how I miss the ‘blue screen of death’.
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posted on
08/28/2020 5:15:20 PM PDT
by
Bullish
(CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
To: dayglored
Now you can pretend you're Matthew Broderick in "War Games." 😄
To: dayglored
I’m holding out for CGA graphics and 16 bit color.
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posted on
08/28/2020 5:39:47 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan)
To: kdr3
Back to the IBM 3270? The keyboard on one of those could be used as a lethal weapon.
To: bigbob
I’ve got my 5 1/4 inch Leisure Suit Larry disks around here somewhere.
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posted on
08/28/2020 6:14:02 PM PDT
by
Poser
(Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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