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Minecraft for Raspberry Pi

[Nov 24, 2012, 6:12 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Mojang Website announces plans to port Minecraft to Raspberry Pi the inexpensive "credit card-sized" computer:

Soon you’ll be able to play and program with Minecraft on one of the snazzy little devices. Aron and Daniel have dedicated time to porting a version of Minecraft: Pocket Edition that comes with a revised feature set and support for multiple programming languages. We’re calling it Minecraft: Pi Edition, and it will be completely free to download.

The possibilities are massive. You could organise the cheapest LAN party of all time, or use the Pi to learn the fundamentals of programming on a miniscule budget. It’s like hacking your way into Minecraft and modifying the game world with code, a bit like being Notch, Jeb, or Nathan, but arguably more fun and less stressful.

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Re: Minecraft for Raspberry Pi

Nov 24, 2012, 23:08

NewMaxx

DanteUK wrote on Nov 24, 2012, 18:02: I wonder what they are re-writing, now way that can still be java, memory requirements to high and performance too low. In Blue's excerpt it states that it is ported from the Pocket Edition, which was written in C++. Keep in mind that Mojang can work from the source and does state "support for multiple programming languages" with regard to the user hacking the game world.

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Comment [quote="NewMaxx"Nov 24, 2012, 23:08][quote="DanteUK"Nov 24, 2012, 18:02]I wonder what they are re-writing, now way that can still be java, memory requirements to high and performance too low. [/quote] In Blue's excerpt it states that it is ported from the Pocket Edition, which was written in C++. Keep in mind that Mojang can work from the source and does state "support for multiple programming languages" with regard to the user hacking the game world. [/quote]

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