[HN Gopher] Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft
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       Show HN: My hobby OS that runs Minecraft
        
       Author : avaliosdev
       Score  : 99 points
       Date   : 2025-11-17 22:15 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (astral-os.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (astral-os.org)
        
       | jakemanger wrote:
       | The "Astral from scratch guide" idea really caught my eye.
       | 
       | Gotta say that would be a pretty cool evolution of DIY
       | electronics kits to OS kits
        
       | phendrenad2 wrote:
       | Love the Motif-style window borders!
        
         | zamadatix wrote:
         | Indeed! Looks like it uses a port of
         | https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3
        
       | ZebusJesus wrote:
       | Well done and thanks for sharing, it's great to see people making
       | a hobby OS and it's awesome that it plays Minecraft! How long
       | have you been working on Astral?
        
       | WhyOhWhyQ wrote:
       | Very inspiring!
        
       | kgwxd wrote:
       | Better than Windows 11 already. I can't run Bedrock or Java
       | without first signing into the Microsoft Store on "my" PC.
        
         | zamadatix wrote:
         | Good news, you too can run Minecraft Alpha 1.2.0 single player
         | offline without signing in. That's not what made this
         | impressive :).
        
       | zamadatix wrote:
       | I love hobby OS projects, and it's good to see how many there
       | continue to be posted here. I can never get enough! It looks like
       | this one has some networking support as well.
        
       | coolcoder613 wrote:
       | This is very impressive! When I saw the title, I thought it would
       | be classicube, but no, it's actual minecraft.
        
       | charcircuit wrote:
       | I would be interested in a benchmark.
        
       | rf15 wrote:
       | > due to the mlibc code using the char value from the format
       | string, the values above 127 passed by OpenJDK would be handled
       | as negative integers
       | 
       | It's 2025 and I still don't get why Java needed signed chars and
       | bytes. Why completely disregard the convenience of using them for
       | array access/etc..
        
         | bji9jhff wrote:
         | The creators of Java probably learned to code on MS Basic
        
         | toast0 wrote:
         | Java creators tried to avoid giving developers any sharp edges.
         | Interactions between signed and unsigned integers can be
         | surprising, so they disallowed unsigned integers.
         | 
         | Of course, not having access to unsigned quantities makes
         | interaction with other programs difficult :(
        
       | burnt_toast wrote:
       | Congrats! Seeing an old version of MC makes me nostalgic.
        
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