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posted by martyb on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-run-it-on-Wine-in-a-Linux-VM dept.

You Can Now Boot a Windows 95 PC Inside Minecraft and Play Doom on it:

A new VM Computers mod has been created for Minecraft that allows players to order computer parts from a satellite orbiting around a Minecraft world and build a computer that actually boots Windows 95 and a variety of other operating systems.

[...] Within Minecraft you simply place a PC case block and then use it to create virtual hard drives to install operating systems from ISO files.

Naturally, the Minecraft community has been experimenting with the VM Computers mod, and someone has managed to get Doom running within Minecraft as a result.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:38PM (12 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:38PM (#1026784)

    I know most Minecraft players are idiots, but this is next level idiocy. Why the fuck would you pay for virtual obsolete computer parts?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:41PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:41PM (#1026787)

    Even better, they happily pay Microsoft a license fee for that virtual Windows 95. Millennials truly are the stupidest form of matter in the universe.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:53PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:53PM (#1026796)

      Oh boy, the boomers are upvoting their own stupidity.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:00PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:00PM (#1026802)

        And the millennials are spending their days emulating boomers, but in a sad virtual way. Win95, ffs.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:03PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:03PM (#1026803)

          Yeah but it does run on Linux.

          CHECKMATE!

          469D chess up in this biaaatch! Trump and his pathetic 4D, typical overrated boomboom.

        • (Score: 1) by Zinnia Zirconium on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:04PM

          by Zinnia Zirconium (11163) on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:04PM (#1026805) Homepage Journal

          Yea it should be WinME.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 27 2020, @09:12PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday July 27 2020, @09:12PM (#1027305) Journal

      Just your daily reminder that SoylentNews is an ANTI science and technology website.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:54PM (#1026797)

    ars gratia artis. A game only needs to be fun for the person playing it.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @10:17PM (#1026814)

    But will the VM run Minecraft?

  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday July 26 2020, @11:32PM

    by looorg (578) on Sunday July 26 2020, @11:32PM (#1026850)

    Because it's fun and it has sort of become somewhat of a gag, it's sort of like the way back thing of "does it run linux", but there was also "does it run Doom". It's one of those things, sort of like Tetris, that just shows up on all platforms. Even platform that has no reasonable reason to run it in the first place -- or should be able to due to hardware reasons but some fanatic made it their work to optimize and squeeze everything out of it to make it run. In this case tho if it can't even run at a reasonable framerate then it's a bit of a failure really.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by choose another one on Monday July 27 2020, @01:31AM (1 child)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 27 2020, @01:31AM (#1026901)

    > I know most Minecraft players are idiots, but this is next level idiocy. Why the fuck would you pay for virtual obsolete computer parts?

    Well I thought the whole point of Minecraft was to build shit, not buy it pre-built.

    Call me back when they have Doom running on a proper redstone computer in Minecraft.

    Oh, and Doom don't need no stinking Windows 95 shite, DOS ran it far better anyway, a dumb boot loader that got out of the way and let the game hit the (386 / VGA) hardware to the max.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @02:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 27 2020, @02:41PM (#1027112)

      i agree. this is just "shadow puppets", 2D cut-outs on sticks moved by hands under the stage. "ogre-layers".
      i suppose this just makes minecraft a "gui" to start a program that "layers" a window on screen?
      i got excited and thought someone actually built a 386 CPU in minecraft ^_^