I've been having the same issues all of you have, here is what i did when i tried today.
1) i ran the run.bat file, this resulted in an error and a message came up saying, next time i run it will update...
2) i ran again, error main blah blah blah
3) i looked at my minecraft.jar file and saw that it was 0kb
4) i redownloaded the .jar file from here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/classic/minecraft.jar
5) i copied this into my lib folder thus overwriting my 0kb file
6) reran run.bat and it worked!!
hope this helps some of you as these were my exact steps
-Terial
bump, cause people seem to think nobody is posting solutions... this worked for me, if it worked for you please say so this way we can at least keep a thread of working fixes.
-Terial
Worked for me, having to do it a 2nd time now.
bump because people are being stupid and swamping the forum with repeat posts about how they cant get the client to work.
Thanks but all i had to do was just press run and minecraft came up without doing what you said for me? how is that do you think?
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Thanks, been having the same problem. Very finicky program.