Well, yesterday I found an old DVD-RW/R/CD-R/RW writer. Now, because I'm me, I decide to see if I could put some games on it. I mean, 4.7 GB is a lot of space. I decided to put one of the all-time best games ever made, Minecraft, on it. It was painful. Now, to be honest, my laptop is like 90 percent full, and has faulty USB ports, so I can see where 2 hours of pain came from. But it worked. It takes between 5 and 15 minutes to load the launcher, and around 1 to 3 minutes to load the game. It has almost unplayable lag for the first 2 minutes, but after that it smooths out and becomes enjoyable. I mean, it IS 1.0, and I DID turn all the graphic settings down, but hey! It is technically Minecraft, and it is running off of a DVD. Now as for SimplePlanes. Simpleplanes requires 2 GB of ram (which I definitely have) and 750 mb for the base game. A standard DVD-R or RW has around 4.7 GB. This mean you could not only fit Simpleplanes, but possibly hundreds of mods and billions of plane Id's (a smart user by the name of HuskyDynamics01 told me that the 6-byte plane files are actually Id's, links to the actual planes. If we are talking about the real planes, millions, not billions.) I have not actually tired it yet, as I am still recovering from the "Portable Minecraft for Window 10" thing, but it should and almost certainly will work.
If you want the Minecraft DVD files, ask and I will personally come to your house and give you a copy. No matter how far away you are, I will find you. I am always watching.
@32 Yeah, most disks are for Installation of the game, but this runs the game straight off the disk the way we did it back in the PS2 Times. Honestly, an iPod is just an actual hard drive, and it has 16 Gigabytes, so it is WAY more practical to use. A DVD however (or at least a DVD-R or RW. I mean, my disks are R, but they work like RW. No idea why.) has a much slower write and read speed.
@StockPlanesRemastered yeah that's basically what I meant, the disc was required to run the game, but it wouldn't be running directly off the disc drive since that's pretty slow. Sometimes games would transfer chunks of data at a time onto the PC's hard drive, sometimes they'd do the whole game. So yeah you'd need the disc, the game wouldn't work correctly without it, but it's not technically running off the disc the way this Minecraft copy is (if I understand correctly)
@32 no. You actually had to have the dis k to play. Take Simpleplanes for example. Even if you install it on a different drive, some files install on the C drive right? That disk, was the other drive. So unless you knew a computer tech wizard, you needed the disk. That's why you used to be able to burn cd roms. But that went away when dvd roms came out. You couldn't burn them BUT it became way easier to tell the computer to download those files. I remember this because that's how nascar 99 and nascar 3 were different.
Burned games were a pita to get to run though you had to reboot the pc and put the disk in while it was booting up (white windows splash screen specifically)
@StockPlanesRemastered sort of, the disc usually just had the files on it, which it installed onto the hard drive of your computer. The disc basically worked as a way to download the files and as a way to verify that you owned the copy of the game you were playing. Some consoles (PS3 era was the last) run games directly off the disc, but the reality is that it's just way slower than the modern hard drive.
@THEOKPILOT eh its ok but at the time the only thing my friends had that I could crossplay with was a vr headset, so it gave us something to play ig
Btw this is how games were played back in the Windows xp days.
@THEOKPILOT @Freerider2142
@Rb2h Like Minecraft on a Tesla! Or an Iphone 3GS! Or a PS1! Or a 1990s Toshiba Satellite! Or a iMac G3! Or a.....
@32 People run games on the weirdest stuff...
@32 I think Rec Room is a good choice. I love playing that game.
@Rb2h It got android? Sure!
@StockPlanesRemastered I need to know who.
Reminds me of when I ran Rec Room off of an iPod. Not an iPod touch, like a 16 gigabyte thingy meant for playing music. It actually worked pretty well. Rec Room was an odd choice though, I'll admit.
Interesting! I know a certain user who could benefit from this.
This dude can run sp off of a smart fridge screen