1.2.5 crashing

Hey everyone 😊

So I play the recent version of Minecraft with a friend on a server, but I also play 1.2.5 and the latter crashes on start.

I installed Java 8 I think in addition to my newest iteration because I’ve read it is needed and it didn’t help on its own. I found a solution which is deleting options.txt and it worked. Problem is, I now need to delete the file multiple times, losing my settings and getting annoying tutorial messages in the newest version of the game.

In a reply to some old forum post someone claims the options.txt instructs the game to use the newest Java installation.

My question is: what is the most convenient way to go about it? I post it here because I figured some of you probably switch between versions as well.

Cheers!