Rodent-obsessed developer creates Ratty to bring 3D graphics to the command line

When you think of a terminal emulator, you imagine a command line interface filled with ASCII text and a prompt. However, one developer has reimagined the experience to include inline 3D objects and image support. Dubbed Ratty by its creator Orhun Parmaksiz for its 3D spinning rat cursor, the terminal window itself is a 3D …

[Bebu sa Ware]

bonkers

Concur.

[dmesg]

Re: bonkers

Wonderfully so.

"C'mon, it's 2026, so why not?"

[david 12]

What is the difference between a graphics terminal and a graphics window?

What is the difference between a graphics terminal and a graphics window?

[frankvw]

Re: What is the difference between a graphics terminal and a graphics window?

Apparently, if this article is to believed, a graphics window is controlled with the aid of a mouse, while a graphics terminal is (now) controlled with the aid of a rat. A subtle difference, I'll grant you, yet significant.

[David 132]

Re: What is the difference between a graphics terminal and a graphics window?

A shrew-d comment.

(No more mouse-related puns, please, or you'll be souris...)

On a more serious note, I'd never considered the shell window as a possible hantavirus vector. Gives new meaning to "terminal illness", I suppose?

[Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch]

Different sort of Temple

Can I write a bash script to virtual speedrun the Scientology HQ?

[Ken G]

Re: Different sort of Temple

There's only one way to find out for sure.

[Missing Semicolon]

Graphics?

No Tek4010 emulation? Incomplete.

[Anonymous Coward]

Reminds me of....

The unix file manager in Jurassic Park... (Running on a Sun I think?) .... I'll have to find time to watch the video about Ratty, but my initial reaction is similar to the aforementioned - looks funky, but probably slower to use than the software it is aiming to replace.

[Simon Harris]

Re: Reminds me of....

I thought it was going to be something similar, but it's really rather different and very much more bonkers.

[Simon Harris]

Terry Davis.

I went to look him up after reading this article, and immediately wondered if he was in any way the inspiration for the Black Mirror episode Plaything.

[Anonymous Coward]

300 MB of RAM?

Come on, you can do better than that!

300 MB is barely scratching the concrete wainscoting of modern-day bloated apps.

Come back to us when you've at least tripled that, whilst removing some important functionality, and we'll take you seriously.

[david 12]

Re: 300 MB of RAM?

Wait, you have to sacrifice 300,000 rams at the 4th temple? If there's much take-up that's going to have a significant impact on sheep prices

[Evil Auditor]

Looks like someone has discovered the demoscene. "...sacrificing 300 MB of RAM..." Ah no, he hasn't.

[Philo T Farnsworth]

Interesting, clever, innovative. . .

. . . and thoroughly distracting.

Definitely hat's off for being so far out of the box as two warp space-time itself but. . .

After thirty seconds of whirling rodents I'd want to smash the screen with the nearest brick.

I can't even stand a blinking cursor.

10 points for creativity but the annoyance factor goes to 11 42.

[Blackjack]

This definitely will be end being used in a movie or at least iby a YouTuber doing Hollywood Hacking.