Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

(discuss.haiku-os.org)

120 points | by m0do1 4 hours ago

7 comments

  • LorenDB 1 hour ago
    Looks like this may have been based on the nillerusr Source engine, which is based on a 2020 leak of the Source sources. nillerusr's engine has also been used to port some Valve games to Android.
  • limsungkee 7 minutes ago
    Dang. Half-Life 2 ruled my high school life. it is still insane.
  • MomsAVoxell 12 minutes ago
    This is great, but can we get a port to BeBox please. ;)
  • bullen 49 minutes ago
    I think HL2 on portable 5W ARM linux is more interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl1nrDvmiII
  • yakk0 1 hour ago
    looking forward to see Action Retro's shenanigans on YouTube with this.
    • jordand 1 hour ago
      I've watched his previous videos on Haiku and haven't been impressed with him. He doesn't seem to have in-depth knowledge of how software and drivers work, which is especially important given how work-in-progress it all is, and that the lineage of Haiku goes back to BeOS. The community has done a lot of good work, and he doesn't grasp it fully.
      • prmoustache 56 minutes ago
        Yes, you have seen a video and you have seen them all. It can be resumed to "will it run minecrafts (or one of its clones)".

        I guess he figured out the short 10-15min format is better for engagement bevause people brains have been destroyed by tiktok and instagram reels and barely anyone can concentrate for 30min on a subject but really it makes for very uninformative vids.

  • AshamedCaptain 24 minutes ago
    What I find depressing is because of idiotic Linux policies, it turns out nvidia hardware is easier to run on a 3rd party OS than hardware with otherwise fully open source drivers like Radeon.

    This is just yet another example that you may think things in the hardware world have changed now that Linux "rules", but they have not.

    • tadfisher 6 minutes ago
      Are you talking about driver ABIs or something else?
  • parisiansam 38 minutes ago
    i wonder how many people are using haikuos enough to make frontpage of video game on that os ?
    • nemomarx 34 minutes ago
      When people get doom running on a toaster, do you also ask how many people game on a toaster? It's more about the technical challenge of the whole deal.
    • nharada 19 minutes ago
      I love it, this is OG hacker news