I got bored...so I put a minecraft server on my Pre.

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  1. Michael Hackett New Member

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exre3F3ZGbM

    I got bored one day and decided to see if it was possible. And it is. The phone I currently have is a Palm Pre Plus on VZW. It runs HP WebOS 2.1.0. It has an OMAP 3430 CPU (overclocked to 1ghz with Govnah), 512mb of RAM, 16gb of NAND storage, Wifi, swap expanded to 400mb, etc etc.

    Originally I tried to get a Ubuntu/Debian chroot going and install java via GUI but I was having a lot of issues with screen space & xserver. After a great shower it dawned on me that java is on virtually everything, including devices with arm based processors. The OMAP 3430 is an ARMV7 CPU and java just so happens to make a binary for it...so, a bit of fiddling later, you can see what the outcome was.

    It's pretty playable for 2 or 3 players, I have monsters/animals disabled for this run. Custom javaopts on launch to make better use of the memory and such. Once the map is generated out far enough it's much easier to play...the day/night transition is pretty rough with more than 1 player. I left the server on over night with 2 players connected and it was still there the next morning.

    Not bad for a cell phone huh lol.

    Music is by Chemical Brothers - http://www.youtube.com/user/ChemicalBrothersTV

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