I didn't expect this to actually work, but as half-jokingly mentioned in the previous post
, here's a Minecraft server running on a
machine from around 25 years ago. Pretty much worked out of the box with
icedtea assembled by the build VM and a 512MiB swapfile (of which only around
50MiB was actually used).
The game was surprisingly playable, and we made it all the way to finding diamonds.
I spent the last few days building a cursed Gentoo system with my partner. We named it "syys", after "syyskuu" - the Finnish word for September.
This post was written, committed, and pushed on that system, using only
software that was built on it natively. For some heavier parts that were not
involved in the making of this post (links, fish, both of which need
cmake, which would take hours to build) we set up a portage binary host on a
VM that is nearly identical to the actual Pentium II system.
The next logical step, of course, is to try and get Minecraft running on it...