/Fallout3Terminal

A recreation of the Fallout 3 terminal via a linux bash script! Requires cool-retro-term, sox and pv installed as packages.

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Fallout3Terminal

Fallout3Terminal is my own version of a Fallout 3/4/NV Terminal operating system, complete with the ability to write journal entries, and in-game sounds from Fallout 3 itself! I tried to recreate as many little details there are in the games, like the RobCo OS header and such, though you will notice I took quite a few liberties.

This is actually just a bash script that can be run from the terminal, and the output is displaying on a highly customizable retro terminal called cool-retro-terminal.

See my demonstration video of this on reddit, the post can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/dw9gfw/i_recreated_a_fallout_3_terminal_as_a_linux_bash/

REQUIREMENTS

You must have the following:

  • Linux based or MacOS operating system
  • The following packages installed:
    • pv
    • cool-retro-term
    • sox

This has not been tested on Windows or *BSD operating systems.

Thanks to gitHub user iFloris, there are now instructions to run this on MacOS! Read on below.

Download and run Fallout3Terminal in Linux

To run this script clone this repository, make "terminalscript" an executable , and run cool-retro-term as follows:

git clone https://github.com/fohtla/Fallout3Terminal
chmod +x $HOME/Fallout3Terminal/terminalscript
cool-retro-term --fullscreen --noclose -e bash $HOME/Fallout3Terminal/terminalscript

You can also enter that command in your startup manager, as well as make launcher with it!

Download and Run Fallout3Terminal on MacOS

( Instructions provided by user iFloris! )

  • Have homebrew installed
    • Run the following:
brew install sox pv
brew cask install cool-retro-term
git clone https://github.com/fohtla/Fallout3Terminal
/Applications/cool-retro-term.app/Contents/MacOS/cool-retro-term --fullscreen --noclose -e bash $HOME/Fallout3Terminal/terminalscript

Additional notes

Thank you for your interest in this! This was just a little side project that I made while sick at home, but a lot of people wanted a download!

I have decided not to leave my preset for CRT in, as some people might want to give a shot at making their own CRT preset. Give it a shot! You might want to try a New Vegas amber look!

Believe it or not, I don't actually do a lot of this kind of thing, and I instead do a lot of Digital Art! I'm still learning, but you can check me out on @fohtla_arts on instagram. Otherwise, enjoy this little program I made for funsies!