Cool Retro Terminal

I often don't blog about this kind of stuff. Yesterday I friend of mine showed me this awesome project called cool-retro-term.

When you work with Cloud Computing and DevOps Engineering you spend lots of time on the black screen testing things on the cloud.  When I saw this project I got very excited because it brings some nostalgy back to my life. To be 100% clearI'm not that old as my friend :-) However I share his joy into this retro terminals. This also reminds me some old games like Fallout 1. I just this is pure fun so I'm sharing here with you guys some screenshots and also how to run on Gnome Ubuntu 17.04.



Cool Retro Terminal Screenshots
























How to Install on Ubuntu 17.4

 
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential qmlscene qt5-qmake qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qml-module-qtquick-controls qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin qml-module-qtgraphicaleffects qml-module-qtquick-dialogs qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin qtdeclarative5-window-plugin

sudo apt-get install qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel -y

sudo apt-get install qml-module-qt-labs-settings -y

wget http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.7/5.7.0/qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.7.0.run
chmod +x qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.7.0.run
./qt-opensource-linux-x64-5.7.0.run

# Get it from GitHub
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.git

# Build it
cd cool-retro-term

# Compile (Fedora and OpenSUSE user should use qmake-qt5 instead of qmake)
qmake && make

# Have fun!
./cool-retro-term

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

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Needless to say that this technology is best appreciated with this other very useful programs.

sudo apt-get install -y rig pi cowsay sl figlet toilet fortune cmatrix
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Cheers,
Diego Pacheco

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