betacraftuk / betacraft-launcher

A launcher for Minecraft focused on legacy versions of the game
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[BUG] Cannot login or play on Windows 2000 #337

Closed xX420MCplayerXx closed 2 months ago

xX420MCplayerXx commented 6 months ago

Describe the bug On Windows 2000, whne you try to launch any version, it never launches and when you try to login using a Microsoft account, it never opens the prompt with the code.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Start Windows 2000 SP4 (updates past this optional) with the last version of JRE for Windows 2000 (v6U5)
  2. Open Betacraft v1.09_16
  3. Type in a username
  4. When you press play, the java,exe process starts but then closes with no window open.
  5. Click log in
  6. press log in with microsoft account
  7. the window doesn't pop up

Expected behavior What should've happened is the gave would've launched and the popup with the microsoft account login code should've poped up

Video

https://github.com/betacraftuk/betacraft-launcher/assets/102683266/8208e535-cf77-4843-a921-a4f18881f31e

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Moresteck commented 6 months ago

Post logs.

alfonsojon commented 2 months ago

While I think the novelty of this is cool, I worry about the security of supporting such an old OS given that modern Minecraft requires a login to a Microsoft account. Personally, I wouldn't trust my Microsoft account credentials on anything XP or prior.

Edit: I think it to be even more insecure given the last version of Java that I could find works on Windows 2000 was Java 6 update 31, released in early 2012 which was over 12 years ago.

Moresteck commented 2 months ago

Closing due to no activity.