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If you’ve used terminals since the early 90’s then you might be pretty used to an old style DOS like font like me. After running windows for so long one of the hardest things about switching to OSX was finding a good font that looks something like what I was used to. This was a must have condition for making the switch two years ago.

There’s just something about the new fonts that just doesn’t work for me after spending hundreds of thousands of hours either in a text editor or at the command prompt. Of course the actual Terminal Font on windows isn’t a TTF so that’s a dead end.

What I eventually found was a True Type Font called Video Terminal Screen. This is what it looks like in iTerm on Leopard at 16pt. Text and code look great with it, well to me.

With the recent release of Konami’s Arcade Stlye Controller for Guitar Freaks I decided I had to order one so I could play one of my favorite games again. Not having even a playstation makes this an expensive game to import. Between the cost of the game, controller, console and mods we’re looking at over $500. Of course I could have gone with an alternate game like Guitar Hero, but Konami is the originator of the rythm game genre and GF reflects this in being much more playable than Guitar Hero.

So with the gear in hand I plugged everything in, ready to tear the game up. I started playing some of the songs I knew in Masterpiece Silver and was failing almost everything. For songs I know I could score an S on in the arcade I was getting a D or an E now! I set to searching online for the issue and found out that because my tv is an LCD based HDTV the upcoversion this can lag the display enough to make a rhythm game like this unplayable. For most games this means you’ve got to shell out about $500 for a specialized upconverter but luckily the newer Guitar Freaks games come with a timing delay setting. With my tv a setting of -4 saved the day!