Altered Beast was the original pack-in for the SEGA Genesis
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Altered Beast was the original pack-in for the SEGA Genesis.
Not the best one. That title belongs to Sonic 2.
Still, it was a smart choice. It showed, immediately, what 16-bit meant. More colours. Bigger sprites. Layered, moody backgrounds. Things the NES simply could not do.
This mattered in 1989. A lot of people genuinely thought the NES was the end of the road. Parents assumed one console would last a childhood. And to be fair, a 6-year-old could live inside Super Mario Bros forever.
But older kids wanted attitude. Something louder. Stranger. More aggressive.
Altered Beast delivered that. A beat ’em up where you claw your way out of the grave and transform into monsters to wreck everything on screen.
Yes, it can feel slow. Yes, the pacing is uneven.
But at launch, it looked brutal, alien, and powerful. And that was the point. -
Altered Beast was the original pack-in for the SEGA Genesis.
Not the best one. That title belongs to Sonic 2.
Still, it was a smart choice. It showed, immediately, what 16-bit meant. More colours. Bigger sprites. Layered, moody backgrounds. Things the NES simply could not do.
This mattered in 1989. A lot of people genuinely thought the NES was the end of the road. Parents assumed one console would last a childhood. And to be fair, a 6-year-old could live inside Super Mario Bros forever.
But older kids wanted attitude. Something louder. Stranger. More aggressive.
Altered Beast delivered that. A beat ’em up where you claw your way out of the grave and transform into monsters to wreck everything on screen.
Yes, it can feel slow. Yes, the pacing is uneven.
But at launch, it looked brutal, alien, and powerful. And that was the point.@atomicpoet What bummed me as a kid was that at the end it turns out it was all a movie (also the tiger and bear transformation never packed the same punch as the wolf or dragon).
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Brunori Sas – L’albero delle noci (2025) - #14/24
Dario Brunori, classe '77, dopo 5 album molto apprezzati dalla critica, è riuscito a raggiungere il più alto livello di popolarità della sua carriera.
Oggi Brunori sfodera uno degli atti più riusciti e incisivi del proprio percorso artistico, imponendosi in maniera definitiva fra i migliori cantautori italiani, non soltanto della sua generazione.
Ascolta il disco: https://album.link/s/0kjBVM24g5ZnCxYi3lggls
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Hello, hachyderm.io! I'm Artur Manuel, better known as @amadaluzia across other platforms.
I've been on Mastodon in the past under @amadaluzia@bsd.cafe, and recently moved in because I was self-consious about my status as a *BSD user. If you aren't sure who I am from that tag alone, I have a webpage that describes who I am that can be found in the following URL.
You should expect long posts from me, as I generally like to write long posts for the sake of detail. If you want short form posts, wait for a while until I have a reason to make a short post, which can be pretty hard to find. Otherwise, you'll at least have something to read. :D
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Chip Swap Fixes a Dead Amiga 600
The Amiga 600 was in its day the machine nobody really wanted — a final attempt to flog the almost original spec 68000 platform from 1985, in 1992. Sure it had a PCMCIA slot nobody used, and an IDE interface for a laptop hard drive, but it served only to really annoy anyone who’d bought one when a few months later the higher-spec 1200 appeared. It’s had a rehabilitation in recent years though as a retrocomputer, and [LinuxJedi] has a 600 motherboard in need of some attention.
As expected for a machine of its age it can use replacement electrolytic capacitors, and its reset capacitor had bitten the dust. But there’s more to that with one of these machines, as capacitor leakage can damage the filter circuitry surrounding its video encoder chip. Since both video and audio flow through this circuit, there was no composite video to be seen.
The hack comes in removing the original chip rather than attempt the difficult task of replacing the filter, and replacing it with a different Sony chip in the same series. It’s nicely done with a connector in the original footprint, and a small daughterboard. The A600 lives again, but this time it won’t be a disappointment to anyone.
If you want to wallow in some Amiga history as well as read a rant about what went wrong, we have you covered.
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@hypostase @alex Firefox is much better about memory efficiency with a bunch of tabs than Chrome. Chrome does tend to feel faster on heavy JavaScript apps, though.
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@FraNiky @alephoto85 non avevo consigliato io ma conosco molto bene il fratello di uno che lavora, quello che lavora l’ho visto crescere, e ti posso assicurare che al di là della qualità del caffè è sicuramente gente che crede in quello fa.
