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 HalfLife 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
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Blog post version
http://blog.greggant.com/posts/2024/0...
Resources:
Retro Tea Breaks Rebecca Heinemann Interview:
• Rebecca Heineman Developer & CoFou...
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/valveju...
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...