“Minecraft” on a single Floppy Disk



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What if Minecraft could fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk? And what if you could run it on a vintage Macintosh? Well, today we’re going to make it happen.

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32 thoughts on ““Minecraft” on a single Floppy Disk”

  1. It's crazy to see how fast PCs have become. Running ClassiCube on my Linux desktop I get anywhere from 6000 – 9000 fps at 1440p. That's literally 1000x the G3's performance! And I was amazed how fast the iMac ran Photoshop 5.0 on it back in 1998 😂

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  2. I don't see why theese computers are having so much trouble running this. I mean, it's Minecraft, a potato could probably run this, an old raspberry PI can run this (I know as I have two of them), it's practically potato graphics.

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  3. As someone who worked on these ports, some long-winded additional information:

    The graphical issues with disappearing triangles were fixed earlier today. Never expected these ports (just done as proof of concepts) to get actual attention!

    These ports don't take advantage of hardware at all and run entirely in software. It's also why the Mac Classic port runs in a smaller window – it reduces the rendering workload that way.

    The 68k build is compiled assuming that the target machine's CPU has no hardware support for FPU instructions, and so they are instead all emulated in software.. which is certainly not great for performance!

    The Mac Classic port could theoretically be compiled to use the hardware FPU instructions of the 68040 CPU, and maybe performance would be slightly better – I'm not sure as I don't have any physical 68k machines.

    The reported FPS is hardcoded to a minimum of 0.2 FPS, but the real FPS could still be lower than even that.

    The DOS port calculates camera movement based on the movement of the invisible cursor, but that falls apart when the invisible cursor hits the sides of the screen. It should really be using the physical relative movement of the mouse instead.

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  4. Seeing Minecraft run on such old hardware is incredible! Classic Cube is an impressive project and the variety of supported platforms is mind-blowing. It would be interesting to see how it performs on consoles like the PS2 or GameCube!

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  5. This """""runs""""" on my mac classic 2. Which is probably the slowest computer that has ever executed "real" Minecraft.
    It took over an hour to get from the title screen to showing the spawn.

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