Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

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Post by pook1e » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 12:10 AM UTC

Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux
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Re: Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

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Post by Breakthrough » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 12:49 AM UTC

This is so amazing, but I'm really hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working?

Obligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/

Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR (http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked for Linux"...

Re: Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

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Post by wylie » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 12:53 AM UTC

Does this mean anything for Half-Life on a Mac?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 12:54 AM UTC

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Post by froseph » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 12:55 AM UTC

Breakthrough wrote: post #2

This is so amazing, but I'm really hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working? Obligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/ Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR ( http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/ ), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked fo…

Is it Half-Life or Half-Life: Source? I'd assume it's Half-Life: Source since they probably aren't going to port the old engine over.

Re: Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

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Post by Breakthrough » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 1:00 AM UTC

froseph wrote: post #5

Breakthrough wrote: post #2

This is so amazing, but I'm really hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working? Obligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/ Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR ( http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/ ), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked fo…

Is it Half-Life or Half-Life: Source? I'd assume it's Half-Life: Source since they probably aren't going to port the old engine over.

http://cdr.xpaw.ru/app/70/

Seems to be using the original Goldsource content GCF, so it appears indeed to be Half-Life. Interestingly enough, the OS list shows both Linux and OSX.

Re: Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

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Post by bitwize » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 1:01 AM UTC

That's great but... where were you 15 years ago, Valve? I was trying to keep Windows 98 taped together to run HL...

Re: Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

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Post by drivebyacct2 » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 1:02 AM UTC

froseph wrote: post #5

Breakthrough wrote: post #2

This is so amazing, but I'm really hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working? Obligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/ Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR ( http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/ ), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked fo…

Is it Half-Life or Half-Life: Source? I'd assume it's Half-Life: Source since they probably aren't going to port the old engine over.

It is the original. I was also surprised since they already have Source ported.

I'm very excited for the rest of the Source games showing up, especially with CS:GO.

edit, sv_cheats, noclip, fly, god etc don't seem to work? (edit2: I forgot -console -dev -sv_cheats 1 launcher opts.)

Re: Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

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Post by taitems » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 1:03 AM UTC

So, stating the obvious, this was only done because the Steam Box will run on a Linux variant, right?

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Post by zchr » Fri, Jan 25, 2013, 1:12 AM UTC

wylie wrote: post #3

Does this mean anything for Half-Life on a Mac?

Looking at the steam registry link[1] posted by Breakthrough, it looks like there is a mention of osx in the app.

[1] http://cdr.xpaw.ru/app/70/

Edit: I opened Steam on my mac, Half-Life is showing up under "Mac games," I'm downloading it now. Great.