I am currently finishing hacking the first ScopePort console! It's a ncurses-based C++ console that uses the ScopePort remote.php:

Useful ncurses tutorials/examples:
- http://web.cs.mun.ca/~rod/ncurses/ncurses.html
- http://www.captain.at/howto-curses-example.php
- http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~xli/ncurses.html