It can, but this is not 90s technology, this is 90s trash... Its like presenting nintendo wii as "Gaming system of the milenials" and being suprised that it cant run GTA V ;-)
@@PetrBelohoubek-ot5ok Nintendo wasn't developing with Triple A games during the WII - Wii Eras, it was the double A and indie games scene for them though.
Hey I got Minecraft 1.3 running on a 2001 dell demession. Intel celron 1.7 GHz and a reason 2900. It ran at like 5-10 fps. The main bottleneck wasn't rendering but it was the game logic. Classic cube runs at 70 fps.Awesome vid. I loved the Wii one as I had a Wii and was inspired to mod it. Thanks for the great videos❤
That is still miles more powerful than the Toshiba used in this video that's from 1996, at this point I think classicube can launch on absolutely anything that has a screen.
any cpu from that era will be miles better and more powerfull. i ran 1.7.10 without any big issues and i think something more but i don't really remember on an ahtlon xp 2600+ (that was downclocked at 1.1Ghz because mobo). i used the old java launcher (that at the time still worked fine). but that's windows xp era machines, nothing to do with this 95 era portable pc
@@SharkVaderYT I remember doing that during a Fun Night my school was hosting, that was back when you’d have to search for it with the tagline “Sweet and Awesome” to get a copy unblocked that allowed you to input a custom username without needing anything other. It was all fun until a faculty member came in and shut that all down lol
To run minecraft on an n64 you would basically have to reprogram the entire game from scratch. You can't just copy and paste files from a pc like he did with the mac and the laptop because the system runs games in a completely different way.
Since when did Zachary become Zaca? I’m in *confusion* Edit : many stuff were released in 1996. Which was in the Mid 90’s. like N64 with its game Super Mario 64. And Crash Bandicoot. And. Uhh. Many stuff. Will smith’s movie Independence Day was released 👍
Another thing, however, this guy is a Australian, which means that he has like the pal versions of all the games which means it’s slightly slower except if he buys a nes classic or snes classic he will get North American versions of games for those systems
Zacca, I am not sure if Macs support this function, but on Windows and Linux when you are not filling the whole CD, you have the option to either leave the remaining space available for future files (so you can add, but not remove files to it) or tell the disk to ignore the remaining space, making it none-writable. This option can save you quite a few disks if you are transferring small files.
Bro tried connecting a host to another host.. Cable User Error XD sorry man Also you needed the drivers for the GPU in the laptop. It probably doesn't even have proper OpenGL support at all if the driver was already installed from the previous user(s), which is why the file was missing... because it should be. That's why it took so long to find the file that worked, because you had to find the only one that came inside that driver. I actually love how you, not knowing what you're doing whatsoever, somehow got this to work and is running a channel from it. Absolutely incredible. Unless you actually really do know all of this crap and it's an act......
That exact laptop was my first laptop ever. I spent a lot of my childhood trying to copy files from random computers and CDRWs to get Windows XP on it. So many memories! I was 9 in 2005 when I got it. I tried getting Doom 3 on it. Found out about Doom 95
For the transferring problem, you could have connected the laptop to your network (it has a port on the back) and connect to a windows file via file sharing. I also think windows 95 supports FTP which is a good way to transfer files over the network.
My friend had one of these! It was old by the time he received it, but we spent many hours during sleepovers making animations in PowerPoint, so many that I actually prefer the layout of PowerPoint from that era!
My first laptop was a Pentium 2 466mhz. I had Windows 2000 on it and I could play Half-Life and Counter-Strike but the ghosting made it almost unplayable. Then I discovered the RCA output. I started plugging it on my tv to play games. Lost the sharpness of the screen but at least it wasn't a smear when moving.
My first laptop was a pentium 2 466mhz. It was good enough to play Half-Life and Counter-strike but it was so hard to play because of the ghosting. Luckily for me there was an RCA output that allowed me to put it to my TV. I lost the sharpness of the image but at least there was no ghosting.
Love! These laptops. I had a Toshiba Satellite very similar to this a few years ago and, man they are just brilliant. Great for games from 92-97. I remember being impressed it even ran Quake 2 very well!
I ran classicube on similar configurations, and here's a tip, if you reduce the resolution of the game, the FPS will become much higher, for this you need to open a chat and enter "/res 320x240" so the fps will increase to 4, if set 160x120 it will already be 15 fps
The best way to transfer files at the time those things were used alongside more modern hardware, was by using a PCMCIA card that could interface with an external 10mbps card, the kind so old it had an ethernet port and a coax BNC connector. This kind of setup wasn't that rare in late 90's.
Randomly got recommended this video and it fits my nerd niches perfectly! Btw, from the look of how thin that initial Micro USB cable was, I think it's a power only cable, meaning the pins and wires are missing for the data lines! Or it could have just been a cheap crappy cable. xD
Minecraft made me cry, too: I once cried because I was horribly lost. It isn't the only game that made me cry, though: I cried my eyes out in the final episode of Life is Strange.
Before this video I was convinced that I was the world's greatest Minecraft enthusiast. Now I'm not so sure that you aren't competition, mate. Well done.
As someone who last than 5 hours ago finished copying a 60megabyte file over a serial connection with 9600 baud... naw burning discs each time is less stressful
If the laptop has a USB port, you could consider dual booting another OS that supports flash drives. I did that with an IBM ThinkPad 600E. It runs 98SE primarily, but also a slimmed down version of Server 2003. When I need to move something over, I boot into 2003, move the files to / from the flash drive then reboot into 98.
When i was 10 or 11 my grandpa gave me his old laptop from the late 90s, and I tried to do exactly this. I ran into the same issue with OpenGL but couldnt figure out how to fix it passed downloading the DLL files. I'm 22 now, and someone else has actually figured out how to do it, I can't believe anyone else even tried to. Good to know my efforts were in vain.
Those DLL files are for directx use, the reason it runs so bad is its trying to software render the image because back then 3d accelerators in laptops were hard to come by if at all. We had issues like this with quake etc when its software rendered and not hardware.
this guy above sounds like he is making up stuff so here's an ACTUAL experienced person Yes, you can, with a WearOS enabled smartwatch - I tried it on my Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. (round screen) You need an ARM-v7a apk of Minecraft (and I recommend one of the earliest versions for performance reasons), and a sideloader for your game. In this case, something on your phone like GeminiMan Watch Manager to push Minecraft via ADB into your watch. The game ran okay in my experience, but you have to shorten render distance, mess with sensitivity settings, and most importantly, go to your watch's settings and turn on triple tap to zoom so you can access buttons like Create world, since screen is round some things will be cut off and by zooming you can see buttons better
That version of OpenGL you used was an implementation of mesa so it was software rendering. That laptop unfortunately didn’t have a proper GPU that could do openGL and that’s why you had those DLL issues as it is supposed to come with the drivers. You need a laptop with say a voodoo (not sure if any existed) or like a rage XL or something.
I don't know if you would be able to get your hands on it, but there was a Minecraft 4K, and the meaning behind the name was that the entire game was under 4,000KB. I believe it was like 2MB or something like that. I'm not sure how well it would work on that PC or how much RAM it requires, but it's about as bare minimal as a Minecraft can get if you can get your hands on it.
I use to download abandonware and transfer the files to my classic 90s Mac. I'd have to burn the files onto a CD, the iMac G3 was able to read the files and from there I'd transfer the files to a Zip Drive and from the Zip Drive my classic 90s Mac could read the files. You can't just transfer from a modern computer to a classic computer, you have to have an in-between computer that can read the data and write the data for an older computer to read, if that makes sense.
For DOS machines, those old Toshibas are great, you have to use an external monitor to get the right resolution, unless you get the right laptop with the right ones.. My Toshibas have a 300mhz Pentium 2, and a 800mhz something Pentium 3. My other two laptops are Fujitsu brand and 133mhz.
I used to run Minecraft server in the early beta days on a dual Pentium 3 1.4ghz blade with 3 gigs of ram. It worked pretty well but slow on terrain gen.
Dude. This was my first laptop. My dad gave it to me when I was about 12, like 1997 or something. Used to run age of empires like a gun and play cds at the same time
Wow. Whenever I tried to run Classicube on a 486 or Pentium class machine it just crashed, even when I had a true OpenGL capable card in the PC. I always assumed it just wasn't coded to support these architectures. Now I have to try it again.
You could’ve just burned the classic cube EXC file to the disk and then put it in the CD rom Edit: right as I unpause the video you come up with that exact thought
it is not, you cant run applications that are older than the 9x kernel, and even some apps made for the 9x kernel wont run on windows 10/11, so that means its not, but if you run them on windows xp which usually runs them all, then you are actually just fine running them
Homie just casually running Minecraft on everything
what's next? Minecraft on Doom?
@@jakublajda7434im gonna end the world
Try scp containment breach on a old MacBook
minecraft on a parking meter connected to a bowling ally control panel as the keyboard
minecraft on a Samsung smart fridge-
"Dude my FPS is not that low"
Bro's FPS in question: 8:49
One frame per second means one movement happens in one minute
Switch users be like “looks fine to me!”
next video:
running minecraft on an 1890s typewriter
somehow lol
@@John17TheOGmp4Minecraft would be on the paper
@@WindowsVistaand7Fan_85 yeah what I thought too xd
Next the loom computer
running minecraft on a 1590's book press
Bro, you can burn more files to a disk with files already in it, just don't finalize the disk. WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN AAAAAA
It hurt me inside.
This is what i did with my win 98 laptop painful
Some drives/Operating Systems won't play nice with discs that aren't finalized.
@@cpuwizard9225 This
@@cpuwizard9225 if this is the case he should have specified that.
Zacca: Can 1990's Technology Run Minecraft?
Me: No
Zacca: "Somehow gets it to work"
I ran Minecraft comfortably with Athlon 64 3200+ and FX 5200. 60 fps with optifine. Pentium 3 era hardware could run it too.
It can, but this is not 90s technology, this is 90s trash... Its like presenting nintendo wii as "Gaming system of the milenials" and being suprised that it cant run GTA V ;-)
@@PetrBelohoubek-ot5ok Nintendo wasn't developing with Triple A games during the WII - Wii Eras, it was the double A and indie games scene for them though.
Meanwhile I was getting 20 fps max on a contemporary Asus lmao
8:52 You can't even call it "running", it's crawling at this point
It did open, so that counts
Hey I got Minecraft 1.3 running on a 2001 dell demession. Intel celron 1.7 GHz and a reason 2900. It ran at like 5-10 fps. The main bottleneck wasn't rendering but it was the game logic. Classic cube runs at 70 fps.Awesome vid. I loved the Wii one as I had a Wii and was inspired to mod it. Thanks for the great videos❤
That is still miles more powerful than the Toshiba used in this video that's from 1996, at this point I think classicube can launch on absolutely anything that has a screen.
@@SharkVaderYTI mean, not exactly surprising when that version of Minecraft used to be playable on the school computers right through a web browser
@@lapielazoolie haha I remember playing Minecraft 1.5.2 over lan on my school computers back in the day, good old times. The admins later blocked it.
any cpu from that era will be miles better and more powerfull. i ran 1.7.10 without any big issues and i think something more but i don't really remember on an ahtlon xp 2600+ (that was downclocked at 1.1Ghz because mobo).
i used the old java launcher (that at the time still worked fine).
but that's windows xp era machines, nothing to do with this 95 era portable pc
@@SharkVaderYT I remember doing that during a Fun Night my school was hosting, that was back when you’d have to search for it with the tagline “Sweet and Awesome” to get a copy unblocked that allowed you to input a custom username without needing anything other. It was all fun until a faculty member came in and shut that all down lol
hey can you try to play minecraft on n64 pleas(like if you want him to do it)
You can run minecraft on a ps1 or 2 so might be possible
@@YKZKYEN protogen :3
To run minecraft on an n64 you would basically have to reprogram the entire game from scratch. You can't just copy and paste files from a pc like he did with the mac and the laptop because the system runs games in a completely different way.
That’d be cool!
Since when did Zachary become Zaca? I’m in *confusion*
Edit : many stuff were released in 1996. Which was in the Mid 90’s. like N64 with its game Super Mario 64. And Crash Bandicoot. And. Uhh. Many stuff. Will smith’s movie Independence Day was released 👍
Wth
Another thing, however, this guy is a Australian, which means that he has like the pal versions of all the games which means it’s slightly slower except if he buys a nes classic or snes classic he will get North American versions of games for those systems
Zacca, I am not sure if Macs support this function, but on Windows and Linux when you are not filling the whole CD, you have the option to either leave the remaining space available for future files (so you can add, but not remove files to it) or tell the disk to ignore the remaining space, making it none-writable. This option can save you quite a few disks if you are transferring small files.
Bro tried connecting a host to another host.. Cable User Error XD sorry man
Also you needed the drivers for the GPU in the laptop. It probably doesn't even have proper OpenGL support at all if the driver was already installed from the previous user(s), which is why the file was missing... because it should be. That's why it took so long to find the file that worked, because you had to find the only one that came inside that driver.
I actually love how you, not knowing what you're doing whatsoever, somehow got this to work and is running a channel from it. Absolutely incredible. Unless you actually really do know all of this crap and it's an act......
Can you test if a Calculator can run Minecraft?
That'd be cool. Maybe on an older calculator since these newer TI-Nspires are relatively powerful and easy to do. So maybe an older CE?
Yooo Wassup Dantic didn't know you be here
Someone already wrote a form of Minecraft for the TI-84 Plus CE
i know different versions of texas instrument calculators can run different forms of 3D wolfenstein
TI-Nspire CX CAS has a couple different versions of Minecraft available, 2D and 3D. ua-cam.com/video/A_0tFHjf7es/v-deo.html
That exact laptop was my first laptop ever. I spent a lot of my childhood trying to copy files from random computers and CDRWs to get Windows XP on it. So many memories! I was 9 in 2005 when I got it.
I tried getting Doom 3 on it. Found out about Doom 95
it's crazy that 90's tech can do that 😲
I'll miss the channel old name😢
what was the channel old name?
@@Sharshor zachary staines
same
Me to
😢
your passion for teaching and sharing is clearly visible in every video! ❤️
For the transferring problem, you could have connected the laptop to your network (it has a port on the back) and connect to a windows file via file sharing. I also think windows 95 supports FTP which is a good way to transfer files over the network.
My friend had one of these! It was old by the time he received it, but we spent many hours during sleepovers making animations in PowerPoint, so many that I actually prefer the layout of PowerPoint from that era!
Oh man that ghosting is so nostalgic. I remember this old laptop i had in the 90's I had to let get warm or the screen was absolutely unusable haha
My first laptop was a Pentium 2 466mhz. I had Windows 2000 on it and I could play Half-Life and Counter-Strike but the ghosting made it almost unplayable. Then I discovered the RCA output. I started plugging it on my tv to play games. Lost the sharpness of the screen but at least it wasn't a smear when moving.
Omg it's the "Can it run on Minecraft" Guy!
New video: Run Minecraft on a Nokia Asha 300
Zach: I never clickbait!!!
literally everyone else:
next vid can a 1960s super computer run minecraft
I remember how slow computers were back then but man, I forgot how bad the ghosting was on the LCDs of the time. We really are spoiled today!
My first laptop was a pentium 2 466mhz. It was good enough to play Half-Life and Counter-strike but it was so hard to play because of the ghosting. Luckily for me there was an RCA output that allowed me to put it to my TV. I lost the sharpness of the image but at least there was no ghosting.
This guy is the equivalent of "Can it run DOOM?"
Running doom eternal on ultra settings with the oldest nvidia GPU moment
Guys, stop hating on him, just a reminder, if you keep hating on him, I swear!
This is crazy! You can perform cpu and ram upgrades on these im sure!
Love! These laptops. I had a Toshiba Satellite very similar to this a few years ago and, man they are just brilliant. Great for games from 92-97. I remember being impressed it even ran Quake 2 very well!
I'm surprised discs weren't the first option. That's usually a go-to when USB doesn't work.
I feel like it would be easier to get the bedrock version ported because it’s a lot more optimized for lower end hardware than the Java version
I remember your first few minecraft can it play it vids. Keep this work up Lad.
I'm glad you changed your name on YT to make it easier to transition to different content at some point
Finally, Doom has stepped down from "Will ____ run ?" experiments...
Salute to Doom and looking forward to see my fridge runs Minecraft some day...
I ran classicube on similar configurations, and here's a tip, if you reduce the resolution of the game, the FPS will become much higher, for this you need to open a chat and enter "/res 320x240" so the fps will increase to 4, if set 160x120 it will already be 15 fps
Did you know you can run Minecraft on a fridge
5:30 that is probably a only charging cable. Some Micro USB can only charge, Not Transfer data
I like your videos very much! Subbed
The best way to transfer files at the time those things were used alongside more modern hardware, was by using a PCMCIA card that could interface with an external 10mbps card, the kind so old it had an ethernet port and a coax BNC connector. This kind of setup wasn't that rare in late 90's.
I have been subbed to you since 10k subs
Looked it up. The MSRP on that laptop was almost 3 grand!! Crazy how expensive stuff was back then!
You could download as many dll files as you can find, and then burn them. Rather than burn a full stack. Also some CD's are rewritable too.
Randomly got recommended this video and it fits my nerd niches perfectly!
Btw, from the look of how thin that initial Micro USB cable was, I think it's a power only cable, meaning the pins and wires are missing for the data lines! Or it could have just been a cheap crappy cable. xD
Minecraft made me cry, too: I once cried because I was horribly lost.
It isn't the only game that made me cry, though: I cried my eyes out in the final episode of Life is Strange.
Before this video I was convinced that I was the world's greatest Minecraft enthusiast.
Now I'm not so sure that you aren't competition, mate. Well done.
As someone who last than 5 hours ago finished copying a 60megabyte file over a serial connection with 9600 baud... naw burning discs each time is less stressful
Next video is minecraft on Gutenberg printer
Duke Nukem I and Halloween Harry!! Immediately straight back to my childhood
If the laptop has a USB port, you could consider dual booting another OS that supports flash drives. I did that with an IBM ThinkPad 600E. It runs 98SE primarily, but also a slimmed down version of Server 2003. When I need to move something over, I boot into 2003, move the files to / from the flash drive then reboot into 98.
We need Minecraft on a ti84 plus calculator next
Next: running Minecraft on my door window
Man, im getting old, i used to remember using floppy discs to load games and no usb ports. Just ps2 ports
When i was 10 or 11 my grandpa gave me his old laptop from the late 90s, and I tried to do exactly this. I ran into the same issue with OpenGL but couldnt figure out how to fix it passed downloading the DLL files. I'm 22 now, and someone else has actually figured out how to do it, I can't believe anyone else even tried to. Good to know my efforts were in vain.
When your FPS becomes equal to SPF...
Those DLL files are for directx use, the reason it runs so bad is its trying to software render the image because back then 3d accelerators in laptops were hard to come by if at all. We had issues like this with quake etc when its software rendered and not hardware.
It's not running. It's having a nice calm stroll on the Toshiba 😂
Halloween Harry! Or Alien Carnage as it was also known as. Loved that game as a kid!!!
Bro can run on better performance than me at school 🙏🙏
Can you run Minecraft in smartwatch..
Yes. It's already been done
yes, a smartwatch is probably 100x faster than this laptop.
If you hack it yes. I did it. But it must be a qaulity one in my experience
this guy above sounds like he is making up stuff so here's an ACTUAL experienced person
Yes, you can, with a WearOS enabled smartwatch - I tried it on my Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. (round screen)
You need an ARM-v7a apk of Minecraft (and I recommend one of the earliest versions for performance reasons), and a sideloader for your game. In this case, something on your phone like GeminiMan Watch Manager to push Minecraft via ADB into your watch.
The game ran okay in my experience, but you have to shorten render distance, mess with sensitivity settings, and most importantly, go to your watch's settings and turn on triple tap to zoom so you can access buttons like Create world, since screen is round some things will be cut off and by zooming you can see buttons better
The fact that this is even able to run on Windows 95 on actual hardware is an incredible feat. nice job and clever thinking 👍
Its desinged to run windows 95 wdym
@VirumOptimum thanks for pointing that out strange those dll files were missing, but cool, the right ones could be found
That version of OpenGL you used was an implementation of mesa so it was software rendering. That laptop unfortunately didn’t have a proper GPU that could do openGL and that’s why you had those DLL issues as it is supposed to come with the drivers. You need a laptop with say a voodoo (not sure if any existed) or like a rage XL or something.
I don't know if you would be able to get your hands on it, but there was a Minecraft 4K, and the meaning behind the name was that the entire game was under 4,000KB.
I believe it was like 2MB or something like that. I'm not sure how well it would work on that PC or how much RAM it requires, but it's about as bare minimal as a Minecraft can get if you can get your hands on it.
I use to download abandonware and transfer the files to my classic 90s Mac. I'd have to burn the files onto a CD, the iMac G3 was able to read the files and from there I'd transfer the files to a Zip Drive and from the Zip Drive my classic 90s Mac could read the files. You can't just transfer from a modern computer to a classic computer, you have to have an in-between computer that can read the data and write the data for an older computer to read, if that makes sense.
In regards to operating software issues like that dll file, you could always use a VM then apply that to the real thing.
I love ur vids u do a amazing job
My generation was “will it play doom”. The new generation is “will it play Minecraft”.
i remember playing minecraft 1.9 on a pentium 4 with a gt 240 and 4 gb of ram
imagine that
Pov next zacca video : running minecraft on the world first calculator
Next video:Playing minecraft on a 1930 morse code translator
this dude will run minecraft on a 1960s supercomputer one day, i hope so
For DOS machines, those old Toshibas are great, you have to use an external monitor to get the right resolution, unless you get the right laptop with the right ones.. My Toshibas have a 300mhz Pentium 2, and a 800mhz something Pentium 3. My other two laptops are Fujitsu brand and 133mhz.
that with the password when you clicked "cancel" on 9x, it would sign you in anyway and that was a huge security risk!
The computer looks not bad,fulling future style
I used to run Minecraft server in the early beta days on a dual Pentium 3 1.4ghz blade with 3 gigs of ram. It worked pretty well but slow on terrain gen.
Dude. This was my first laptop. My dad gave it to me when I was about 12, like 1997 or something. Used to run age of empires like a gun and play cds at the same time
I set an alarm for 2 years from now when the laptop is actually 30 years old and not clickbait.
When it’s closed it just reminds me of a giant gameboy/DS
you don't need to burn a new disc each time, you can set up the disc to work like portable media
Twister and Independence Day made young me think that big thick laptops were the "real deal
Dude is going to make Minecraft run on the Gameboy next
Wow. Whenever I tried to run Classicube on a 486 or Pentium class machine it just crashed, even when I had a true OpenGL capable card in the PC. I always assumed it just wasn't coded to support these architectures. Now I have to try it again.
My dad had this laptop back in the day. He gave it to me so I could play Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Next video: Can a Windows Phone Run Minecraft?
WP7 and WP8 actually had the pocket edition
@@AlexandruLipan But the stores are down so you can't get them
It does
@@JetMrBedrock15 ik i just wanna see him do it
@@Jimiscool88 OK!
The purple lights is spot on❤❤
there is literally a build of classicube for windows versions before 200 linked on the WEBSITE
That was very interesting. Id like to see a little motion even if was 1 frame per minute...
Hey you managed to get it to "run".
Impressive in its own right.
I can't believe we live in a year were normal videos are filmed with movie cameras!
You are a legend
Bro your vids are amazing
This is absolute MADNESS.
Top-tier video, for sure.
2:58 That screen is ghosting so badly, you risk neighbors reporting paranormal activity around your house to some 3 letter government agency.
You could’ve just burned the classic cube EXC file to the disk and then put it in the CD rom
Edit: right as I unpause the video you come up with that exact thought
Bro's next video is can a NASA satellite run Minecraft
Next video:
Running Minecraft in an abacus
When he connected it to a modern mac, I'm thinking add an extra amount of pain between two brands of OS along with 30 years of separation.
That’s the beauty of windows. It’s all pretty much foward and backwards compatible for the most part
it is not, you cant run applications that are older than the 9x kernel, and even some apps made for the 9x kernel wont run on windows 10/11, so that means its not, but if you run them on windows xp which usually runs them all, then you are actually just fine running them
@@Notepad69 “For the most part”
5:35 its too real how micro has just been washed away, it’s happened quite a few times and all i ever have is some cheap little wire
The USB hub likely prevented you from doing a serial transfer.
If you utilized the page file, you could open yourself up to a larger pool of ram.. but you'd need a USB port.