a launcher for MiniCraft+ and some other variants of the game. Not Minecraft related.
Everything that the launcher downloads is in <user folder>/Documents/MajickTek/minilauncher. If your user folder doesn't have a Documents folder inside it for some reaason, it'll make one.
On *NIX systems including macOS (probably) you should be able to find the right folder by navigating to ~\Documents\MajickTek. On Windows this would be C:/Users/%username%/Documents/MajickTek.
As of now, the current minimum version of the launcher you should use is Pre Release 4. This version bumbs the minimum JRE version to 1.8 to make it more accessible (this may change in the future if necessary). Earlier versions require JRE 16 or newer.
- Load versions from /MiniCraftLauncherIndex
- Double-click to download a version
- Double-click already downloaded version to launch it
- The launcher keeps track of downloaded versions on restart
- Under the Edit menu, go into the Select Channel submenu to switch between Release, Pre-Release, and Mod channels.
- Insert/Add version profiles. These cannot be saved at the moment. GUI Options accessible via the Edit menu.
When a channel is selected, it downloads a .index file from https://github.com/MajickTek/MiniCraftLauncherIndex.
Inside this file is a list of versions, and the format is like this:
<index> = <SemanticVersion>,<url>
The SemanticVersion is often planted in the URL somewhere if the url contains the string $version.
- Add menu to open launcher folder
- Add "cleaning" functionality (delete downloaded index files, jar files, and/or game folders)
- Add config file to load the indexes (so they aren't hardcoded and the user can make their own)
- (Future) Allow self-updating via GitHub Releases