Great, except not authentic. They forget that image on the screen, affects the image on the screen. So basically same dim image looks different than same bright image. Geometry often also changed when brightnes was changed. It's complex thing to receate authentic CRT.

Also many emulations fail with phosphor decay in very obvious ways. So it's not being done in a correctly at all. This cathode project is good, but many of these are clearly done by people, who haven't ever used the authentic thing and do not know what it should be like.

I remember that I laughed when people were talking about 25 ms TFT being slow. From good green / amber display you could still read text after 5 seconds since powering it off. ;)

I had one of these, lovely. http://sales.hansotten.nl/uploads/msx/monitoren/IMG_6798.JPG And this beauty is pretty modern one, because it's color display. With many older CRTs you had to use 40 chars per line, because image was so fuzzy that 80x25 would have been unreadable.

About noise, I have seen some extremely cheap and old VGA adapters generate so much noise and timing jitter into signal, that it looks like old TV even with modern dispalys. I got really baffed by it when I first encountered it.

That Philips monitor, that's a blast from the past! My parents bought me one of those back in 1984 for my BBC micro. Then I had it hooked up as a second monitor on my Opus 286 PC that I bought when I started college in 1985 (1MB RAM, 12Mhz 286, 37.5MB RLL 3.5" disk) for C debugging. I was a bit fancy back then and had two video cards in my PC. The C compiler I used (pretty sure it was the Microsoft C V5 one) knew how to talk to a second video card.

I kept the Philips around for years and years then donated it somewhere along the way with a couple of CGA and EGA monitors I'd collected over the years.

Just a wee nitpick, that particular Philips monitor wasn't "colour" as such, it had amber phosphor instead of green or white. That said it was a really nice display, very crisp and sharp and a bargain at around 99 quid in the day.

Getting back on topic, the best displays (in their day) I ever used were the Data General Dasher 2 and D200's. Sadly the later Dashers (the model 20's with the cream and brown cases) shipped with crappier CRT's that would wobble when sat next to any switched mode power supply.

Ooooh, a MSX. I guess you are not from the USA, then :)

Cool-retro-term and this are awesome! It's like Instagram for the terminal!

> Also I believe the demo version would appear as tho the cathode screen was about to fail and get worse and worse.

Correct, which actually makes me prefer the demo to the "final" product, it's really fun to see the display "degrade" over time. And the various sounds are awesome (to annoy colleagues).

Plus Cathode provides configurable line speeds.

I wanted that program badly, there never was a linux port, never got a chance to give them money, now I don't need it.

Almost bought a mac just for that app :p

I'd still buy it if it were available on linux, it's still prettier than this, even though this is very very good.