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Or, can still be purchased on Steam for $0.99, during sales. Windows only though.
by nomel 9mo ago
Or, can still be purchased on Steam for $0.99, during sales. Windows only though.
- SXX 9mo agoIts ported to Linux just like cs 1.6. Not sure how good Mac build is though.
- nomel 9mo agoSteam version: This product is not compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina or above.
- jamesfinlayson 9mo agoYeah Apple's latest round of breaking changes hasn't been addressed (and seemingly won't be). The Linux and Mac ports happened in 2013 or so (presumably getting one working went a lot of the way to getting the other working, though there is some speculation that Apple poured in some money to help make it happen).
- lproven 9mo agoMacOS 10.15 dropped support for x86-32 binaries. Later it became clear why: the Apple Silicon transition, and Rosetta 2, which is optimised for running x86-64 binaries on Apple's Arm64. But the same change is looming on Linux: Ubuntu tried in 2019 but was persuaded not to, Fedora has tried more than once. WINE 11 can run Win32 binaries on a pure 64-bit host OS without 32-bit libraries. So, you can run some 32-bit Windows games on 64-bit Linux and macOS which cannot run the 32-bit binaries of their own older versions. Apple merely jumped first. I think it's not to be blamed here. It'll happen everywhere in time.
- jamesfinlayson 9mo agoOh that's right the - the 32-bit thing. Incidentally Valve experimented with 64-bit GoldSource 20+ years ago for servers at least but didn't really pursue it.
- BlitzGeology91 9mo agoEh, I don’t really think that this is an “or” situation. I think that this is an “and” situation. The last time that I set up Xash3D FWGS, I had to copy files from the version of Half-Life that I own on Steam into a different folder so that those files could be loaded by Xash 3D FWGS. I haven’t tried Xash 3D FWGS in a while, but it looks like you still have to do that [1]. Also, are you sure that the Steam version of Half-Life is Windows only? [1]: <https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/blob/f0342763547d9bcf486af8ee7418893ebeb972c5/README.md#installation--running https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/blob/f0342763547d9bcf486...>
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- nomel 9mo ago> Also, are you sure that the Steam version of Half-Life is Windows only? You're right! It looks like Linux has a native build too. Apparently the Windows version, through Proton, runs better though (not that it matters).
- ghostly_s 9mo agoWhat's the point of using this xash thing then?
- pilif 9mo agoIt’s open source and runs on all kinds of platforms. Original HL1 runs on old Windows and IIRC DOS. Nowhere else
- skhr0680 9mo agoValve updates HL1 every few years so it runs on contemporary platforms. DOS was ancient history by the time HL came out, you might be getting it mixed up with Quake1
- jamesfinlayson 9mo agoFor whatever reason, Valve doesn't want to open source the engine so some people have taken it upon themselves to build a reverse-engineered engine (which now runs on Android, in the browser etc).
- jedbrooke 9mo agothe windows version is playable on macos through wine. Even modern version, I got it running on a m2 mac mini on Macos 15 sequoia EDIT: this was for HL1 I’m not sure about HL2