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You Can Play 'Doom' Inside 'Minecraft' Using a Virtual PC

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:

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

    by choose another one (515) 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.

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  • (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 ^_^