Kazeta is a new OS by the creator of ChimeraOS. You might have seen some news on it in the last few days, or at least some posts on social media. Its not trying to be the next big gaming platform, it’s more like a little love letter to the old style of gaming. Instead of all those menus, online accounts, and updates, it takes things back to the basics: stick in a ‘cartridge’ you make yourself, turn on the system, and play. That’s it! No fuss, just the game you wanted to play.
What makes it extra fun is that the ‘cartridges’ are really just SD cards you load games onto. Label them, stack them, swap them around, it’s built to make you feel like you’re back in the ’90s, digging through a shoebox of game carts. For someone who wasn’t alive for that era of gaming (not even close, honestly), it’s a neat little glimpse of what it was like. A tactile vision of when games came on actual carts…well, kind of.
Kazeta is a neat mix of nostalgia and practicality, especially if you’re tired of modern gaming feeling like a chore.
I got the chance to chat with Alkazar, the dev behind Kazeta, and he shared some great insights into building the OS. This feature pulls together our conversation and what makes the project so unique.
Compact flash cards would be even better. They’re easier to handle and have a lot more room for a label. It’s too bad they are so much more expensive.
If you join his Discord, you’ll see he’s working out other physical ‘devices’ which will work on the same principle!
Early days so far, but its exciting to see all kinds of ideas being suggested in there :)
Oh good, another software project developed behind the proprietary closed doors of an AI datafeed machine
…It’s where the humans are, dude. I guess a gitlab or github would be better, but the users are on discord for conversations.
Mumble is a niche of a niche
Teamspeak is for ARMA and the pretentious
I can only speak of two people in my life who use Matrix
I cant think of anyone who uses guilded.
At some point that has to not be enough.
The much more likely explanation is that people have no self respect. That they’ve given into the corporate surveillance and advertising machine because they just don’t care.
The worst thing is: every bit of knowledge on the Discord Guild (“”“server”“”) becomes an exclusive silo, unsearcheable and unindexable. It’s the worst case scenario for any software community, which is also why I dislike Nobara a lot.
It really is a mask off moment IMO and watershed between the people who actually care for the philosophy of free/libre software and those who – just like corporations – only see it as a more efficient development model…