Older versions of Minecraft (pre-1.6-ish) cannot be launched on M1 Mac
Deleting the options.txt file from the minecraft directory before relaunching the game should allow older versions to start.
I suspect that the versions of Java that the launcher uses to run the older versions are the culprit.
The issues in the official launcher range from opening a completely black window, opening with the wrong window size (which crashes on attempt to resize), opening but with partially inverted colors, or just not opening at all.
With such a huge community that continues to play on older versions of the game, this is a problematic issue to come across in the official launcher.
Environment
M1 Mac, Pre-1.6 Minecraft
Created Issue:
Older versions of Minecraft (pre-1.6-ish) cannot be launched on M1 Mac
I suspect that the versions of Java that the launcher uses to run the older versions are the culprit.
The issues in the official launcher range from opening a completely black window, opening with the wrong window size (which crashes on attempt to resize), opening but with partially inverted colors, or just not opening at all.
With such a huge community that continues to play on older versions of the game, this is a problematic issue to come across in the official launcher.
Environment
M1 Mac, Pre-1.6 Minecraft
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WorkaroundDeleting the options.txt file from the minecraft directory before relaunching the game should allow older versions to start.
I suspect that the versions of Java that the launcher uses to run the older versions are the culprit.
The issues in the official launcher range from opening a completely black window, opening with the wrong window size (which crashes on attempt to resize), opening but with partially inverted colors, or just not opening at all.
With such a huge community that continues to play on older versions of the game, this is a problematic issue to come across in the official launcher.
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I've been dealing with this as well! (macM1-user)
Yup can confirm, black window for me on 1.5. I am on M1.
Hi!
Have you tried deleting options.txt from your minecraft folder, and then starting the game again?
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@Zgajak - Thank you. This allows older versions to start now, but they are still visually buggy. Specifically, the inverted colors issue has not been resolved by this.
Again, probably a result of the java version used to run the pre-1.6 versions of the game.