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Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by SomeoneOnTheWeb »

robbbbbbbbbbbb wrote: post #63
SomeoneOnTheWeb wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the same price you have the Minisforum UM760 Slim which should be 100% compatible and provide VASTLY superior performances. Or you can check cheaper models that would have the same level of performance as the A5. Geekom make nice products but they are usually both very expensive and very noisy compared to competitors. Their selling point is mainly their top-notch design, but I find these to be function-over-form…

I guess the lack of a built-in SD card slot might make the Minisforum options less attractive

Right, if you specifically want to use an SD card and not USB, and don't want to add an adapter either, sure the A5 is the way to go.

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by lproven »

ninetyninenine wrote: post #77
lproven wrote: post #70

This sounds potentially interesting, but the website is so vague it's criminal. I have absolutely no idea what the "console gaming experience of the 1990s" was. What console? What experience? I've only owned 3 games consoles in my life. An original XBox, a gift from a friend which I immediately hacked to be an XBox Media Centre and used daily for years but never played a game on again. A PS2. And now a Wii for my kid…

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She is 5. I bought it less than 2Y ago.

If you don't understand something then it is not OK to blame the mental faculties of the author.

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by lproven »

mulletbum wrote: post #74
lproven wrote: post #70

This sounds potentially interesting, but the website is so vague it's criminal. I have absolutely no idea what the "console gaming experience of the 1990s" was. What console? What experience? I've only owned 3 games consoles in my life. An original XBox, a gift from a friend which I immediately hacked to be an XBox Media Centre and used daily for years but never played a game on again. A PS2. And now a Wii for my kid…

I have to say, this is not targeted at you. I know exactly what a 1990s gaming experience is like and xbox is the console that killed it completely.

My point is general.

That's what I was talking about.

Don't assume -- especially when writing. Always explain because people outside your target audience will read what you write and they may go on to buy a million of your product, or give you a job, or something.

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by Dead_Lemon »

serf wrote: post #16

sd card contact wear is pretty radical on constant insert/removal. second: one of the things that made cartridges great was that they were human-sized. as were CDs. An sd card inserted into a more handle-able/human 'cartridge' would be cool, maybe gameboy sized was about perfect imo. fiddling with sd cards and slots isn't great. an snes/genesis cartridge falls into the thing, you can't miss or do it backwards without…

Replicating something like a form factor of a Gameboy cart is a cool idea, you could probably get away with a I2C EEEPROM of a size large enough for a single rom.

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by ramon156 »

mulletbum wrote: post #74
lproven wrote: post #70

This sounds potentially interesting, but the website is so vague it's criminal. I have absolutely no idea what the "console gaming experience of the 1990s" was. What console? What experience? I've only owned 3 games consoles in my life. An original XBox, a gift from a friend which I immediately hacked to be an XBox Media Centre and used daily for years but never played a game on again. A PS2. And now a Wii for my kid…

I have to say, this is not targeted at you. I know exactly what a 1990s gaming experience is like and xbox is the console that killed it completely.

Never assume the reader knows what you're talking about, that's bad writing.

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by Chris2048 »

vunderba wrote: post #15

Neat concept. I had to dig through a lot of the docs before I could get a good grasp of exactly how this works, though. It's an OS that mounts/searches all drives (such as an SD card reader) for the first available KZI file which is a format that describes how a specific game is run (the runtime, additional gamescope options, etc). While the idea of essentially mimicking old school carts by having a dedicated SD card…

You could also just have the games already on the console/pc and the cartridge is just a "key" needed to play it?

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by Chris2048 »

stuaxo wrote: post #42
anal_reactor wrote: post #34

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Practicality is exactly why we abandoned the old designs.

Yep, but we didn't realise what we were throwing out. Having a tangible thing somehow makes it mean more, think about picking out a record or CD to play and leaving it to play as opposed to scrolling through infinite music to choose what to play.

Why not just maintain a personal playlist?

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by Ericson2314 »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #60

This does indeed look cool but is should say: "A Linux distribution focused on console gaming". Whenever I see OS I get excited to see a new operating system but end up disappointed when it is yet another distro.

Yeah, came here to say the same thing. It's really criminal. People need to stop doing this.

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by ndriscoll »

ofrzeta wrote: post #88
ndriscoll wrote: post #84

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It's probabably more sensible to have a drive for your full music collection and then use an NFC reader + cards to trigger an album. I see you can get 100 NFC cards for $22 on amazon right now. I saw some German blogs about doing this a few years back.

You are right that this is probably the more reasonable thing to do. I was just thinking that 1) I want to use full-size cards for better haptic and 2) have the actual data stored on the media. For instance when you are in the car with your playback box and the SD card you can listen without a network connection. But I concede that I am stubborn and this will probably be a dead end :)

You still don't need a network connection. Put a drive or SD card with all of your music in the player itself. You could put several hundred CDs worth of music in FLAC on a device for like $20, or up to like 4,000 CDs with a 2TB card (or 16,000 with an 8 TB drive), so probably more than anyone could reasonably own (or manage for a physical collection). Pennies of amortized storage cost per album even if you have multiple devices. It's nothing next to the cost of legally acquiring the music.

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by mystraline »

unixhero wrote: post #86
Saline9515 wrote: post #85

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It's nice if you have kids in a no-tv house and want to allow them to experience retro-gaming while being able to control what is played, and how. Scarcity has it virtues, too.

>Scarcity has it virtues, too. I would even wager to say; Without it, we're doomed.

We have enough food production to feed 30 billion people, and throw away massive amounts.

We have plenty of land and housing could be inexpensive or free for all.

Sunlight, wind, and tidal is literally 1kW/1m^2 free energy.

Pirates already can watch anything, listen to petabytes of music, access nearly every book including academic papers.

We really could be living in post-scarcity world. But its the oligarchs and billionaires who want to keep the spoils for themselves. And in the USA alone 8 billionaires own as much resources as the bottom 60% does.

Simply put, material scarcity is a fucked mindset. And we could grow past that - in fact I think we have to.

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