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Looks like no recompile, sadly: "Notice: This product is not compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina or above. Click here [1] for more information." [1] https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/5E0D-522A-4E62-B6...
You can run Half Life on 64-bit MacOS (including ARM64) using Crossover. It uses Rosetta and Wine. https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/half-lif...
We'd gladly trade all the distractions the client forces down our throat (stickers, trading cards, avatars and all of that stuff) for the ability to single play the games we legitimately bought. But that's not an option we have, unlike say GOG, who also doesn't support old OS but at least gives us the possibility to download the games. I'd even concede some form of DRM that doesn't involve the Steam client but naaa, "the h4x0rs will get into your XP box that you keep solely for retro gaming and shut off the world. you must upgrade, re-buy, expend!"
Anyway, happy birthday Mr. Freeman.
Welcome to the H.E.V. Mark IV protective system, for use in hazardous environment conditions.
High-impact reactive armour activated.
Atmospheric contaminant sensors activated.
Vital sign monitoring activated.
Automatic medical systems engaged.
Defensive weapon selection system activated.
Munition level monitoring activated.
Communications interface online.
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You can run Half Life on 64-bit MacOS (including ARM64) using Crossover. It uses Rosetta and Wine. https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/crossover/half-lif...
It's unplayable in Rosetta because of the x87 everywhere. Like sub-20 fps unplayable.
Half Life 2 also runs well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NESG_fXgo
Disappointing they never made HL3
One of my favorite documentaries was made by Noclip, which tells the story of Half-Life and Valve. It is soo good, a must watch. Interestingly, though, it features no one from Valve, as they, in typical Valve fashion, ignored their requests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLEW1c-69c So I'm very excited to watch this new documentary featuring people who worked on the game, made by the same people, such a surprise ha…
It's also free until Monday (as in free to get, not just limited free play) https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/
Interesting. I do have a steam account, haven't used it for a long time, it doesn't seem to be in my password manager So I went to reset my password, but got thwarted by the captcha. To email me a password reset link. I think Ill just torrent it.
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It's unplayable in Rosetta because of the x87 everywhere. Like sub-20 fps unplayable.
Are you sure? Portal 2 had no issues on my M1. Half Life 2 also runs well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4NESG_fXgo
Side note, I think HL2 does for physics, or something; fast moving objects and explosions cause drastic frame drops via Rosetta. I haven't been able to look into it in detail to confirm the cause.
Edit: The best "official" way to play Half-Life on an Apple Silicon machine is through Parallels, which uses WoW64's x87 translation instead of Rosetta. I've also heard you can compile Half-Life yourself using the leaked Source Engine code, but I haven't tried it myself.
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Interesting. I do have a steam account, haven't used it for a long time, it doesn't seem to be in my password manager So I went to reset my password, but got thwarted by the captcha. To email me a password reset link. I think Ill just torrent it.
Out of curiosity, why wait until just now to torrent it?
Nonsense like captchas only hurt legitimate users, and when those captchas are asking you time and time again it's simply not worthwhile. Had I wanted to actually spend good money on a game they would have lost a sale, and for what -- to stop a robot asking for a password reset email to an existing account?
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Why not make a new account? Valve is giving this out for free, partially to get people to use their program more. Why not support them in that small way at least?
Presumably the same captcha nonsense.