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  amatecha
  Nice, I'm surprised it took this long! My first experience of playing Quake 1 in my home was an unauthorized source port which ran in System 7, I believe was called "HackQuake", ported from stolen source code from CrackDotCom apparently[0][1] .. For me as a kid getting insanely impatient to play Quake, this was a godsend! Even if the performance was brutal and firing a rocket caused the framerate to halve. Played it at 320x200 pixel-doubled just to eke out that extra little bit of performance. Anyway, the point is that HL probably could have been running on Mac since day one, if someone had spent the time to port it![0] https://www.wired.com/1997/01/hackers-hack-crack-steal-quake...[1] https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeOfficialArchive/blob/...
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  wk_end
  The most interesting thing about this link, for me, is seeing that there's an open-source recreation of GoldSrc [0]? That's apparently been around since 2011 [1]? I'm stunned I haven't heard about this before. Very cool.[0] https://github.com/fwgs/xash3d-fwgs[1] https://www.moddb.com/engines/xash3d-engine
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  xp84
  More and more, I wonder if projects like this (I assume they're made possible 'all of a sudden' because of AI coding tools) are going to eventually breathe new life into dozens of "obsolete" platforms long ago deemed too costly to keep supporting. Maybe we'll be able to daily drive OS9 with modern browsers and bugfixes. Or for those of us less masochistic, say, Windows 2000 or NextStep!
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  hedgehog
  For reference this is roughly period correct for the early iMac models (G3 and DV) that came out in 1998 and 1999, though MacOS 9 didn't ship until later. Impressive porting work.
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  sharkjacobs
  I would have been really excited about this circa 1999. I mean don't get me wrong, I was grateful for Unreal Tournament and Q3A, and I knew I'd be getting Halo soon, but this is the one game I was really jealous of my friends for.
• luciana1u
  the real achievement here is getting a 1998 game engine to run on an OS that Apple actively tried to erase from existence. Half-Life outlived both Mac OS 9 and the Performa line.
• ayaros
  Runs nicely on my iBook G3!Is the OS 9 build supposed to include Blue Shift and Opposing Force, or is that only a reference to the Tiger and Leopard ports? Just tried out the Tiger port on my iMac G4; it also runs fine!
• purpleflame1257
  So will this run through Classic no problem, yes? I almost want to break my powebook G4 out of mothballs on principle to try this.
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  ChrisMarshallNY
  That's nice.Now do MacOS 26, on M chips.[UPDATE] To make it clear, it was a joke (always a faceplant, on HN, where senses of humor go to die). It's actually very cool. I just get cranky that 3/4 of my Steam games don't work on new Macs, and I did like HL.
• gcanyon
  Great, now all I need is (checks the closet) any of the dozen or so powermacs I owned over the years to not have left my possession...
• system7rocks
  Wow. This is the golden age for classic Macs.
• frollogaston
  Porting AssaultCube should be doable too
• pimlottc
  Cleverly done.
• mcfdoesdev
  This makes me so happy lol.