I happened to stumble upon this today... (Half-Life source code)

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I happened to stumble upon this today... (Half-Life source code)

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https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife

I wonder is there enough data here to make a legit port of the Half-Life engine to Dreamcast? or is this only suitable for mods of the engine
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Re: I happened to stumble upon this today... (Half-Life sour

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Moved this to Developmental Ideas.
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Re: I happened to stumble upon this today... (Half-Life sour

Post by Christuserloeser »

Pretty nice! Definitely adds another level of legitimacy to the existing port of Half Life on Dreamcast. :grin:

As for the actual code: It would require a real pro with waaaaaay too much time on his hands to even attempt porting this, and even then the results would probably be nowhere near as good as what you'd be hoping for. Plus this source code is released under a restrictive license prohibiting commercial use which is too bad really!

Still, this is a really nice find I guess! If you can spread this to other Dreamcast related sites with less over the top hand cuffs on copyrights than we still got in place I am pretty sure this might be handy for a better understanding of the existing HL Dreamcast port too.
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Re: I happened to stumble upon this today... (Half-Life sour

Post by Ayla »

And where is the source code exactly? All I see is the SDK.
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