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Re: Half-Life OS X and Linux Betas Released

Jan 28, 2013, 10:16

wtf_man

nin wrote on Jan 28, 2013, 09:58: Panickd wrote on Jan 28, 2013, 09:50: While I applaud this I am not sure it was necessary. On the other hand even my Atom based Linux box with the shitty Intel graphics should be able to run a game that old and I do already own it so... I suspect valve is trying to lead by example before encouraging fellow devs to do the same on steam. Agreed. This has more to do with their new Steam "console" than anything. That said... porting to both OSX and Linux isn't that far of a stretch since OSX is Darwin Unix under the hood. The Kernels are different but the file structure and many of the libraries are similar. So they then get another OSX game on Steam. As for the graphics... I just started re-playing Half-Life: Source with the Enhanced Mod... and that brings the game into Unreal 2.5-ish era graphics, which isn't bad. I also disabled the music in the mod so I'd get the original game music. I much rather play this than Black Mesa's "re-envisioning" of the game.

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