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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: 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.

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