Wow the devs have made some serious headway!
Don’t get too excited, the game doesn’t actually load,
Edit: Yes it does, as of 0.3.4REL
Edit2: Mods such as Counter-Strike now run
Edit3: Mods such as cstrike now play LAN and WAN
(Tested on VMware Server 1.0.4)
but when you put it in perspective when simply having hl.exe on ROS would be enough to BSOD when I first tried it! (0.2.8)
Now the game boots (BSOD on install but boots if you manually install the required files)
However the graphics are garbled, to be expected however for Alpha stage and lack of drivers though.
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When you initially load hl.exe ^
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CD Serial :) ^^
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First error ^^
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Second error ^^ (same one appears twice, which means it’s probably the ‘Sierra’ and ‘Valve’ intro scenes that don’t appear on ROS.)
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^^ Game jumps straight into the main menu, which as you can see if graphically messed up.
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^^ Selecting ‘new game.’
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^^ Game never actually loads, once you select difficulty, it closes down and this appears, after clicking ‘OK’ (one on the left) on this pictured window it closes down to the desktop ad infinitum.
Much more stable then before, not a single BSOD.
Does anyone know why the graphics are garbled? Am I doing something wrong? (Other than trying to play a game on an Alpha OS :D )
One other thing I noticed however, in ‘regedit’ the ‘Software’ key is “SOFTWARE” in all caps, does this make a difference? Wouldn’t it lead to incompatibilities? Because on 2k & XP (I don’t know about Vista) only the ‘S’ is capitalized.
E.g:
Windows XP:
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Half-Life\Settings]
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Valve\Half-Life\Settings]