It'll be a slide show on that CPU.

Most probably LWJGL (a library that Minecraft uses internally) does not support Windows 9x. LWJGL was first released in 2007.

However, as Fusion says above, on that CPU (if you were able to get LWJGL to work) you would not get anything even remotely resembling a playable experience on a Pentium 3 at all.

It's been done before. I mostly want to play old versions, which actually can run at a sort of decent framerate as they use far less memory than newer versions. I just want to know how to fix the issue I have, since people have gotten it to work on lower powered CPUs than me before.

I guess you have seen this before?
https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecra … ndows-98?page=2

What exactly is the issue without looking at the video?

And you never thought to cite this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaynOXm1X3Y

I wasn't sure if I would need KernelEx or not based on the fact I was able to install Java 6u7 without it and the Minecraft launcher ran.

Solarstrike wrote:

And you never thought to cite this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaynOXm1X3Y

I saw that video, but since Java 6u7 was able to be installed without KernelEx, I thought it was pointless. Also, I didn't watch that video until after I was already made my first post here.

dottoss wrote:

I guess you have seen this before?
https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecra … ndows-98?page=2

What exactly is the issue without looking at the video?

I hadn't seen that post before. The issue seems to have something to do with the display.

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: C:\WINDOWS\.minecraft\versions\1.5.2\1.5.2-natives-332213864630\lwjgl.dll: A device attached to the system is not functioning
I have seen that error several times, slightly different depending on the version. However, they all seem to have something to do with lwjgl.dll: A device attached to the system is not functioning.

I was hoping to be able to get it to run without KernelEx, which seems to be what someone I was talking to about it had working. I mostly want to know if the issue has to do with software, or if my hardware just can't handle it at all.

OK, so this got solved once I installed KernelEx. I didn't realize that KernelEx was a full on requirement to playing Minecraft on a Windows 98. Well, thanks for sharing that forum post.