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Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C

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Re: Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C

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It's cool that they are intending to port it to old gaming systems: PSP, 3DS, Wii, GameCube, Xbox, Dreamcast.

The readme notes all say "The port needs assistance from someone experienced with homebrew development - if you're interested, please get in contact with me." , it's got entries in the Makefile for all of them at least.

Re: Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C

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I feel like this is one of those projects missing missing an important "Why" section. It's an interesting project, but from the outside, I don't immediately understand why someone has done all this effort. Huge Minecraft classic fans? Programming exercises? Is it about porting to as many platforms as possible? This is the version they are forced to make to not get their pants sued off?

Re: Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C

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I feel like this is one of those projects missing missing an important "Why" section. It's an interesting project, but from the outside, I don't immediately understand why someone has done all this effort. Huge Minecraft classic fans? Programming exercises? Is it about porting to as many platforms as possible? This is the version they are forced to make to not get their pants sued off?

Yeah, I'm left wondering the same thing. The project page says that there isn't a survival mode, nor will there ever be.

Uhm... why not? If I contributed a Survival mode, and submitted it as a PR, then it would be rejected? If the goal of this project isn't to recreate what we loved about old-school Minecraft, then I don't know if this project is for me or not, and then I don't know who it's for.

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