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Minecraft Ported To the Raspberry Pi

Posted by Soulskill on from the port-it-to-a-computer-built-inside-minecraft dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The amusing 'but does it run Crysis?' question has a cousin: 'but does it run Minecraft?' The makers of Raspberry Pi can now officially say that yes, yes it does. Called Minecraft: Pi Edition, the latest flavor of the popular game carries 'a revised feature set' and 'support for several programming languages,' so you can code directly into Minecraft before or after you start playing. That means you can build structures in the traditional Minecraft way, but you can also break open the code and use a programming language to manipulate things in the game world."

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  1. Re:Yes but... by Cito · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Hell even trying to run Pico on the Pi bogs it down and VI brings it to it's knees as bad as a forkbomb.

    so far the best way is to edit code/configs/scripts on a local desktop/laptop then ftp it them over, cause even basic text editors bring the PI to a slow crawl.

    I sorta wish I didn't waste the money on it

    my wrt54GL router "seems" to be faster and more responsive in shell than the PI

    I was gonna use the PI as a network storage device, chaining 3 or 4 external usb hard drives to it via powered usb hub, and it worked and all but the PI is soooooo slow the transfer rate would dip down to 5K-10K/sec over LAN when trying to save a large file or copy a large file from it to desktop.