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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The Sega Mega Drive or Genesis scene is probably the most active as of now with several big commercial titles releasing yearly followed by ton of ROM-only smaller projects and ports released on itch.io. This is largely thanks to the still fairly recent release of the unofficial SGDK development kit making development much more accessible to those not into learning 68k assembler. SGDK itself is still actively developed, releases somewhat regularly and the number of 16-bit Sega game projects keeps growing, as tracked by Pigsy, a developer themself who has taken on porting Castlevania: The Symphony of the Night from the PS1 to the Mega Drive among other things.





















  • From personal experience, 11 can’t do vertical taskbars and the hack that restores 10’s taskbar isn’t entirely bug-free and can be shut down on a whim by MS with an update removing the functionality.

    From what I’ve read, 11 is a privacy nightmare with Recall and the ever-worsening insistence on having a fucking MS account to log in to your PC locally. Sorry I meant your self-serve surveilance and ad-targeting appliance.

    Having to fight the anti-features and dumbing down of a piece of hardware you supposedly own to keep it usable and useful to you, not the mothership, with hacks of varying reliability… What part of that sounds like something you would want to spend any of your money or time on?