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Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux
- wylie 14y agoDoes this mean anything for Half-Life on a Mac?
- zchr 14y agoLooking 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/ 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.
- venus 14y agoFinally!! Us Mac users are used to waiting a little longer than PC users to get a compatible version of the game, but 15 years must be some kind of record.
- johnchristopher 14y agoWell, this is Valve Time (c) we are dealing with here :) https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
- robin_reala 14y agoIt almost made it out way back when, but was cancelled at the last minute. There’s an interview with one of the developers about it on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBg6L4H7WdE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBg6L4H7WdE
- wymy 14y agoI just fired up Steam and now I'm downloading HL for Mac.
- wylie 14y agoThanks for confirming! I'm doing the same.
- venus 14y agoNot in Australia yet, sadly :( edit: I spoke too soon. You just have to own the Windows version, and the mac version will appear. Downloading!
- Stwerp 14y agoAck! Not available for me yet. Is it all the goldsrc games, or just HL? Ok, really all I want to know: CS 1.6 available?
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- Breakthrough 14y agoThis 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/ http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/ Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR (http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/ http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked for Linux"...
- lifeguard 14y agoDust!
- froseph 14y agoIs 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.
- Breakthrough 14y agohttp://cdr.xpaw.ru/app/70/ 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.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoIt 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.)
- barredo 14y agoYou surely meant http://www.dayofdefeat.com/ http://www.dayofdefeat.com/
- alexanderh 14y ago
- bitwize 14y agoThat's great but... where were you 15 years ago, Valve? I was trying to keep Windows 98 taped together to run HL...
- untog 14y agoSerious question: was Linux able to play any kind of game in 1998? Linux releases are a little more fluid so there aren't as many big moments, but I'd imagine it was a hell of a lot less capable in '98.
- whichdan 14y agoI've had a lot of fun playing Sokoban before.
- jsnell 14y agoThere was a fair amount of AAA gaming support around that timeframe (say 1996-2000). Almost a golden age. Games based on the Quake engine were the most obvious example. Besides them, Loki ported maybe 20 games over to Linux. The ones I still have CDs around for somewhere are Railroad Tycoon 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Myth 2.
- dllthomas 14y agoOh man, was I ever a Loki fan...
- jcastro 14y agoI would rebuy these games again if they came to Steam, I have the original id special Edition Quake3 metal box but I lost the CDs long ago. :-/
- cyxxon 14y agoThey are on Steam... http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=quake http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term...
- taitems 14y agoSo, stating the obvious, this was only done because the Steam Box will run on a Linux variant, right?
- drivebyacct2 14y ago1. Why is that obvious? 2. "only? 3. Why do people care? Not necessarily you, but commenters on reddit, The Verge and others are practically angry at Valve supporting Linux.
- Camillo 14y agoI hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I get the impression that Linux-on-the-desktop peaked a couple of years ago, Now, with the Unity/Gnome 3/Mint/etc. mess, the momentum Ubuntu had has fragmented into several diverging paths. It seems harder now to recommend one single Linux distribution for the average user than it was two years ago. On top of that, the PC itself seems to have peaked. It's hard to think that Valve sees this as the right time to pour resources into PC gaming on Linux. It's much more likely to have something to do with the console we know they're working on.
- bluedanieru 14y ago>It's much more likely to have something to do with the console we know they're working on. Which, by all accounts, will be more-or-less a Linux PC. And Linux-on-the-desktop seems healthier now than a couple years ago. The reason it's harder to recommend one single Linux distro, is that even casual users have more than one good choice. I don't see "Unity/Gnome 3/Mint/etc." as a "mess". If you want a single, monolithic platform, we already have that. It's called "Microsoft Windows".
- kostya-kow 14y agoI think you are right. But this is not necessarily a bad thing. Majority of Linux kernel is pretty good because of servers, super-computers and Android. The only reason Linux needs Desktop users is for better graphics drivers and games. Now that Valve is making their game-console, the graphics drivers should improve tremendously, and there should be a lot of new games. So there is no real need for wide acceptance of Linux desktop. Of course, this is a rather selfish point of view. I believe that the world would be a better place if everyone used Free Software (and Linux). It would encourage collaboration of many groups of people, and would be really beneficial for all software.
- Camillo 14y agoNowadays, you might want to play Black Mesa instead: http://www.blackmesasource.com http://www.blackmesasource.com It's officially just for Windows, but it runs fine in Wine.
- mrposty 14y agoBM:S is very, very nice looking and fun, but it's still not finished yet, anyone looking bear in mind multiplayer and the Xen levels are not implemented yet. It's passed steam greenlight, so once finished, should be available for a nice one click install. I look forward to this :) But if you're reading this thread and excited, you'll probably get a kick out of it.
- nitrogen 14y agoAll the pre-Xen levels are very well finished. If you just want the single player gameplay up to the point of the Lambda Complex, install Black Mesa now :-). You can get a preview of the gorgeous Xen graphics in one of the rooms of the Questionable Ethics chapter.
- Chattered 14y agoWhenever I used to replay the original Half-Life (I think I've completed it 5 or 6 times), I would get as far as Lambda Complex, pretend that was where the game finished, and promptly stop playing. I think plenty of us hated the Xen levels, and the BM:S team knows how challenging it will be to modernise. I'm looking forward to see what they do!
- rangibaby 14y agoYes! Counter-Strike next please.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoIt seems like it may be available: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/178aev/valve_pushes_out_halflife_for_linux/c8368c9 http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/178aev/valve_pushes_o...
- barbs 14y agoI tried this on OS X, but I get stuck running the thing I get: Error:dlopen(/Users/barbs/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Counter-Strike/hw.dylib, 2): Library not loaded: release/vgui.dylib Referenced from: /Users/barbs/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Counter-Strike/hw.dylib Reason: image not found Could not load hw.dylib. :(
- drivebyacct2 14y agoIn linux, vgui.so and vgui2.so are in the directory above. Try adding them to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH env var or whatever the OS X equivalent should be. (that maybe why it didn't work in the first place, I don't know). I guess it may be a whole different story on Mac. I haven't heard of anyone getting the native OS X Half Life running through Steam, though someone on reddit said they had it downloading...
- lloeki 14y agoThat's DYLD_, and vanilla HL runs OOTB on OSX here.
- shmerl 14y agoWhere can one buy the DRM free version?
- nitrogen 14y agoThough your comment is clearly sarcastic, you might be able to get an old CD copy of HL1 from eBay, which only has CD key protection and works in Wine.
- shmerl 14y agoWhy sarcastic, the question is sincere. It's nice to see Valve pushing for more native Linux games, but on the other hand I'm not using Steam because of its DRM. So that's why I asked if it would be possible to buy the Linux version somewhere outside Steam. Buying CDs in the age of digital distribution sounds crude.
- jeffool 14y agoI think people (myself included) took your initial inquiry as sarcastic because you didn't so much as ask if it were possible as ask where it could be done. The wording kinda to presume one COULD purchase the game without DRM. And if you know Valve (and you may not, that's fair), then you should know DRM is their bread and butter. They're more synonymous with their DRM scheme/store/toolset Steam than they are with games. To use a more readily recognizable name... It would be like seeing a post about a new version of Windows releasing, and someone saying "Great! Where can I get the source so I can roll my own?" Maybe that person wouldn't know... But the assumption is going to be they're making a comment rather than asking a genuine question.
- shmerl 14y agoWell, I never used Steam preferring DRM free distributors like GOG, so I can't say much about Valve in this regard except that I know that Steam uses it :) It's unfortunate that they are too engrossed in DRM as much as preventing their games form being distributed by DRM free channels.
- failrate 14y agoIt would tickle me if they released HL3 on Linux first. That might drive quite a bit of Linux adoption.
- daenz 14y agoI read this as a hint/signal that Half-Life 3 may be available on Linux as well.
- DeepDuh 14y agoJust imagine the effect an exclusive linux release of HL (ep?) 3 would have. If Valve really wanted to piss on Microsoft's foot, that's what they should do.
- lifeguard 14y agoOr just a Beta on Linux before other platforms.
- alexanderh 14y agoI dont think there is a chance in hell that it'd be a Linux exclusive but if it's on Linux at launch, that would still be HUGE.
- DeepDuh 14y agoWell given (a) Valve's distaste for Microsoft's strategy and (b) their anyways insane profitability per employee I could see them at least releasing a title a few weeks earlier on linux and OSX than on Windows.
- rednukleus 14y agoValve's problem with Windows is that they perceive them to be going after a more closed system. Snubbing Windows for the far more closed OSX would be ridiculous, so that's never going to happen. The Linux market for games is absolutely tiny compared with Windows, so there's no way they are going to release a major title on Linux first either.
- ekianjo 14y agoNow I hope they release HL2 and Portal next :)
- thefreeman 14y agoPlease dota 2 next!
- darkstalker 14y agoDota2 works on wine. All I want is League of Legends for linux.
- brokenparser 14y agoBut you already have HoN! They really improved it for Linux lately, with HoNTV support and everything!
- nib952051 14y agoThey made my weekend
- ysangkok 14y agoA couple of problems/solutions for problems I encountered using Ubuntu 12.04: * It will crash right after start using NVIDIA drivers 310.19. Upgrade to the latest, I used 310.32. * It does not work with plain ALSA, I only get sound after starting PulseAudio.
- DiabloD3 14y agoIt will, put export SDL_AUDIODRIVER="alsa" in your .bashrc and relogin
- moccajoghurt 14y agoIf a problem is that easy to solve, I wonder why it doesn't get fixed by the developers. That way thousands of tech impaired users have to google and spend hours to solve this.
- DiabloD3 14y agoBecause they built their copy of SDL wrong, plus they're building it instead of using the distro provided one.
- jiggy2011 14y agoShame that HL1 looks like absolute ass @ 16:9
- kunai 14y agoWow, this is great, especially since I'm a Linux user. Now if only Adobe would port CS6 over to Linux...
- michaelbuddy 14y agoadobe should have rolled their own linux distro ages ago.
- kunai 14y agoDoubtful, because they're a primarily closed-source company. Anyway, I'm mad at Adobe not because they didn't port CS6 over to Linux, I'm mad because they didn't even TRY to ensure Wine support for it. Tweaking your application to work under Wine is just as good as writing a copy for a different OS from scratch, and that's the least they could have done.