Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9
A developer has successfully ported the classic first-person shooter Half-Life to the legacy Mac OS 9 operating system for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers. The project uses a re-implementation of the GoldSrc engine to allow the game to run on hardware from the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Why it matters
This demonstrates the dedication of the retro-computing community to preserving gaming history and extending the utility of obsolete hardware.
Half-Life has finally landed for PowerPC based Macintosh computers 28 years after it's original release! Half-Life is a story driven first-person shooter, that follows scientist Gordon Freeman, who is a theoretical physicist trying to survive and escape the Black Mesa Research Facility after a failed experiment opens a portal to an alien dimension.
The game was originally planned to be released for Mac OS 9 by Valve in 1999, but was cancelled shortly before launch. Valve didn't bring Half-Life to Mac OS X until 2013 which was well into the intel based CPU era, and now we finally have a release for PowerPC based machines.
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