alien-console

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).

Screenshots

These use Cool Retro Term with a theme I came up with to match the Alien computers.

• Splash screen:

  

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• Personal Terminal

  

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Sound

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.

Install & Run

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

Etc

The license is Revised BSD. See LICENSE for more details. See the Changelog for changes and version info.