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Eike Ziller

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ok, yet another question 🙂

do you have /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents ?

Hi Piotr, for me Apple's java 6 is still there in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java etc
I did upgrade my computer from Lion though. Do you still have the above, or is it gone?

Eike: not only the demo, any minecraft as far as i know.

For now Apples Java 1.6 jre is still there for me, and Minecraft on Desktop works. Only the browser plugin has explicitly been removed so far for me. Don't know about fresh Mac OS installs though, I think the Apple Java 1.6 was a separate download and install for a while now, don't know if Apple still provides that at all.
But of course one never knows when that time will be, if it didn't happen already.

sa MC-13175

This makes the demo unplayable by Mac OS X users. Apple has discontinued their 1.6 browser plugin, Oracle only provides 1.7. And really, requiring someone to downgrade a Java browser plugin is irresponsible, have a look at recent security issues.

The minecraft demo is not playable at all by Mac OS X users at the moment. And you close this report as duplicate of a bug report which is closed as invalid. If you provide a demo as a java applet, you cannot control the java version of the browser plugin, and really, requiring a user to downgrade to a now even unsupported java version is almost funny if it weren't even irresponsible. Have a look at recent security issues with java. You really always want the latest in your browser (if you don't even turn it off completely).

Worse, downgrading the java plugin on Mac OS X is not easily possible (aside from the fact that you don't want to do that, and especially not for playing a demo), Apple turned off their java 1.6 plugin, oracle only provides 1.7 for mac.

What follows is that Mac users are not able to try the demo, the fact that the demo crashes doesn't create trust that the full version will not crash as well, people already playing and loving minecraft on Mac OS cannot seriously recommend it to other Mac OS users ("here, you can just try the demo and see why it's great ... oh wait.")