This is a ncurses-based application which emulates the terminal application shown in Alien: Isolation. When you combine this with a terminal emulator that focuses on a retro look (like Cool Retro Term), it doesn't look that far off!
The entries in the "Personal Terminal" screen are completely customizable, using a configuration file located in:
- the first command line argument, OR
/etc/alien-console/alien-console.conf, OR/usr/share/alien-console/alien-console.conf
See etc/alien-console.conf for a sample configuration file (which should be
installed at /usr/share/alien-console).
These use Cool Retro Term with a theme I came up with to match the Alien computers.
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Splash screen:
Compare to:
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Personal Terminal
Compare to:
This program can play sound effects at startup. If you were to find the sound
files inside Alien: Isolation which contained the startup sequence sound
effects, you could place a wav file at /var/local/console.wav and listen for
the magic. I don't want to distribute that because copyright.
See [INSTALL.md][INSTALL.md] for install instructions. If you have installed it
to your system (with sudo make install), you can invoke it like this:
alien-console
# searches for /usr/share/alien-console/alien-console.conf
# then /etc/alien-console/alien-console.conf
If you have just compiled it, you'll need to specify a config file (as the default one will not be installed to your system):
./alien-console etc/alien-console.conf
The license is Revised BSD. See LICENSE for more details. See the Changelog
for changes and version info.