Linux, Half-life And Ns

Grimm_Spector

<div class="IPBDescription">Why not?? :D</div> There's a linux version of the halflife engine out there, as I'm sure many people know. <a href='http://lhl.linuxgames.com/' target='_blank'>http://lhl.linuxgames.com/</a>
I'm going to be running Mandrake on my box, and once I sort out the stupid PPPoE problems, I'll be online, and able to use it to better correct problems on my Mandrake server. Now, the one thing I'd like to see, is for flayra and his team to make a linux binary, an .so client library for halflife, and distribute it with 1.1 for both servers and clients, so that we can all enjoy NS on our Linux boxes. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Hope people like this idea, and I hope someone brings it to the dev teams attention...maybe a sticky? <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> + Windows = NO WIN!! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

cracker_jackmac

this is not possible as there isn't a native HL client for linux.

Click that link again and you'll that that its just HL.exe running on wine builds.


a linux build for teh client isn't even possible.

SuperBOB

Just use winex, half-life runs perfectly under it.

i get 60-90 FPS in Windows and 40 - 60 under Linux. As long as you have a fairly decent box it will run fine.

Grimm_Spector

A linux build for the client is possible, but not without the source. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

however, I'm pretty sure we need linux libs don't we?
or is it just the executable, because they've been working on some of the mods by the sounds of it, such as cs, and making the compatible. I would assume this means they've been trying to make linux binaries of them, which you would need, since the dlls are full of windows stuff that probably would still mess up winex since it's not very "smart" to try to simply convert a dll to an ix86 so....

f3Rl3SS

Hey ... cool idea! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Flayra ... could you pleaaaaaaaase! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Scum_of_the_Universe

As mentioned above it's not native - technically it's not emulation either - that's why it will only work on pcs (linux isn't just for pc). A native port was promised but never materialised. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

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however, I'm pretty sure we need linux libs don't we?
or is it just the executable, because they've been working on some of the mods by the sounds of it, such as cs, and making the compatible. I would assume this means they've been trying to make linux binaries of them, which you would need, since the dlls are full of windows stuff that probably would still mess up winex since it's not very "smart" to try to simply convert a dll to an ix86 so....
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They mean the linux server version. The main bit that's missing is the renderer.

I'd like it (not as much as a source release) if they released an opengl only half-life without the gui (which is obviously windows specific).