It took 15 years for this game to be ported to the Mac...

This game should have existed. Well I mean it does, and it did, and it could have. Half Life has a strange relationship on OS X and macOS. Allow me to elaborate on the history of Half-Life on Macand then and the end we'll cover how you can experience Half Life natively on a PowerPC Mac and modern Macs.

Companion Patreon post with resources
Patreon: 106698266

Blog post version
http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2024/0...

Resources:

Retro Tea Breaks - Rebecca Heinemann Interview:
Rebecca Heineman - Developer & Co-Fou...

Andrew Tsai - Why Valve gave up on Mac gaming
Why Valve gave up on Mac gaming

Mac Source Ports Xash3D FWGS  (For modern Macs)
https://www.macsourceports.com/source...

Installing isn't incredibly difficult if you have a virtual machine or Windows PC to install half life on. You need to do this so you can nab source folder from the PC install. I found I had to install Game of the year edition in Windows, and then go into the Half Life directory, and drag the source folder into my username/Library/Application Support/Xash3D


Sources:

https://www.imore.com/gaming/valve-ju...

https://www.metacritic.com/game/half-...

https://web.archive.org/web/200008170...

https://www.bluesnews.com/s/6736https...

http://planetfortress.com/syndicate/f...

https://web.archive.org/web/200103012...

https://web.archive.org/web/200008170...

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