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thoughtpunks.com
I Must Find Bigfoot is getting a (basic) digital version. Pretty much the game, dice and journaling. But some automated rules, achievements, prompts, cool things like that.

Super cool WordPress theme for beta space to share these things! All retro terminal inspired (even a "command line" can use!)
October 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
werewolf.pizza
Interface for Macintosh retro game Marathon (1994), showing the player's oxygen, health, and ammo levels. The game window shows in-game terminal text, reading: ~1```<Information Termination> <Durandal.olifant.compnet~@24%> ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL*** technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight ***END MESSAGE*** ~!#31`c/dr.~/dr.~!#3!#3c/dr.
September 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
screwtapello.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy
Are you nostalgic for using a CRT terminal in the 90s? Or maybe curious about what things looked like before high-DPI displays and true-colour graphics? I've extracted the fonts from the firmware of the DEC VT320, a CRT terminal first produced in 1987, and […]

[Original post on teh.entar.net]
A screenshot of the app "Cool Retro Term" trying to simulate the text rendering of a VT320 with an amber screen. The text is a warm, rich orange; the background is dark with some ambient glare, and curves away towards the corners of the screen.
January 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
ClockworkPi uConsole + Cool Retro Term + Berkeley Mono = ❤️
Photograph of a UConsole, a handheld comouter by clockworkpi. The screen on the top half shows terminal app that simulates the look of an old green phosphor CRT terminal. The game nethack is being played.
March 11, 2024 at 8:49 PM
publiclewdness.bsky.social
Mine would be:

- OS: Artix for gaming, Devuan for everything else
- DE: Mate
- Terminal: Cool Retro Term/Terminator
- Shell: bash
- Editor: Pluma/Nano
- Gaming: GOG, Itch .io, Lutris, Heroic Games Launcher, Steam (just for clearing old games, no longer buying from there)
January 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
blip.somefurrednerd.xyz
noted!! you're insanely cool (certified by blip's own retro terminal emulator ^_^) like. off the charts. the homelab's thermometer cannot read how ice cold this is. blush
July 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
bleachedthorns.bsky.social
'cool retro terminal' is too much fun
December 27, 2024 at 8:09 PM
letelyre.bsky.social
💾 Retro Fish Friday! 🐠

Enjoy a living, breathing (well, almost) aquarium from the comfort of your own terminal, no real water required!

🫧 Asciiquarium v1.1 by Kirk Baucom

📦 Arch Linux: extra/asciiquarium

🕸️ Website: robobunny.com/projects/asc...

Shot on 🖥️ cool-retro-term
Screenshot of Asciiquarium, a charming little perl script powered by `perl-curses` that creates an animated aquarium in your terminal window! The pic shows off a character set vaguely reminiscent of the Commodore 64, with generous amounts of bloom and ghosting on display.
March 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
ruxotves.hed.im.ap.brid.gy
@michbarsinai

Cool Retro Terminal? 🖵

(Speaking of which, https://youtu.be/p3bDE9kszMc)
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
feiticeir0s.bsky.social
Feel the cool retro look of old times Linux terminals. #linux #retro #vintage #terminal
Get a Vintage Linux Terminal with Cool Retro Terminal
Getting nostalgic about the old CRT monitors of the 80s? You can relive it in Linux with the Cool Retro Term application.
itsfoss.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
thomasfuchs.at
Proof!

(this is the `cool-retro-term` Terminal emulator, btw)
September 1, 2023 at 6:22 PM
joey.menzen.ski
One flight today: AA2299 MSP-DCA on an A319. EXP comes through, upgraded at the gate to 1A.

N838AW will take us to DC. The gate over one way has an AA retro, the other way is an Aer Lingus A321XLR - cool stuff on the E concourse this evening.
An American Airlines A319 at gate E16 at MSP, seen from the terminal on a beautiful early fall day with blue skies. American Airlines retro jet 737-800, wearing the previous scheme with AA on the tail and a red white and blue chest line on polished fuselage. The tail and rear fuselage of an aer lingus A321XLR seen at MSP, partially obstructed by the jetbridge.
September 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
tamalitocanario.bsky.social
Yeeess!! A bunch of KDE layouts are so cool! Customization ftw.
I can't decide whether I'll be going for something like retro-arcade or futuristic space terminal, but it's got me super excited to work on it!

If you decide to switch, I'd love to see your progress and how you customize your layout :3
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
mioux.petits-pedestres.fr
Vous connaissez cool-retro-term ? C'est un émulateur de terminal pour Mac et Linux
March 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
letelyre.bsky.social
It's #retrotermthursday here at the Lyre house terminal courtesy of cmatrix! I've changed my usual terminal style to green+black just for this.

🕶️ CMatrix by Chris Allegretta, now maintained by Abhishek V Ashok

📦 Arch Linux: extra/cmatrix

🕸️ Website: www.asty.org/cmatrix/

Shot on 🖥️ cool-retro-term
April 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
chilichese.bsky.social
I have a new default terminal 📺 it’s called cool-retro-term
A screenshot of a terminal emulator that realistically simulates an old amber CRT
July 20, 2023 at 8:50 AM
novacancyinspace.bsky.social
Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath(2023) by Tendershoot

Its another Retro FPS but this time featuring the goat Zane from Hypnospace, which is neat. The music is great in this, and the Vibes(tm) are off the chart for that 90s nu-metal cool kidz style. Solid 7.5/10 imo.
May 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
tom.eastman.nz
Many people asked what I used for my #PyConAU slides.
I used "lookatme" (on pypi) for terminal-based slides written in markdown. And I used 'cool-retro-term' for the cute glitchy retro looking terminal effects.
November 22, 2024 at 12:06 AM
bitsplusatoms.bsky.social
My #RaspberryPi powered #VT100 replica is coming together. The case is a #3DPrint, it's got a 5" display, and it follows the actual case design fairly closely. Running cool-retro-term as a terminal gives it that old CRT feeling (can't really see it in the picture).

#retrocomputing #DEC
February 29, 2024 at 4:09 PM
lunafoxgirlvt.foxgirls.gay
I used to main cool-retro-term but now I just use gnome terminal
February 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
mrjofficial.bsky.social
🕹️ I just built a 2D retro car game for an event! Using only prompts in the terminal with Amazon Q CLI! 😄
From setup to working game, it handled the entire flow: installation, generating code, fixing bugs, and even running the game! Looks Cool! #AmazonQCLI
June 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
ianhussey.mmmdata.io
Obsessed with cool-retro-term, a way to skin the terminal to look like a CRT screen.

Replete with burn-in, horizontal jitter, and screen curvature, and other realistic effects.

github.com/Swordfish90/...
March 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
mioux.petits-pedestres.fr
Il y a une option à la con dans les terminaux Windows... Une option "Effet terminal rétro". C'est comme cool-reetro-term sous Linux, mais en moins configurable
Le mode "Effet terminal rétro" active des scnalines sur le terminal
November 26, 2024 at 4:26 PM
playziggurat.bsky.social
Xbox players can take advantage of some cool retro titles on sale right now.

Protect the Enclave in an action RPG in Enclave HD
Fly around alien planets in a sci-fi flight sim in Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition

or

Be a giant robot in an arcade rail shooter in ExZeus: The Complete Collection
June 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM