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Half-Life 1 engine based games

12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2014-04-07 · latest 2026-10-11

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  1. …of silly when a lot of the most important AAA knowledge is already available to the general public. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/blob/master/pm_sha... The LLMs have presumably already consumed information like this as part of…
    comment by bob1029 · 2026-10-11 · in 500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter
  2. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife on the other hand is the full Half-Life (GoldSrc) engine, but it's not quite an open license.
    comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2026-07-25 · in Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
  3. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife is the HL1 engine, is it not?
    comment by crote · 2026-06-25 · in Half-Life 2 in a Browser
  4. …state and nobody at Valve feels like working on putting it into a distributable state ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/1712#issuec... ): > A while back Valve [had] a partner perforce server that had depots of the source…
    comment by ndiddy · 2026-06-11 · in Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95
  5. …Half-Life 1 SDK on Valve's GitHub [1], not sure if it's missing something regarding the engine. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife
    comment by skotobaza · 2026-06-09 · in Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95
  6. …allocator problem exists -- glibc's malloc() just decides to fail miserably[0] on some setups. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/3158
    comment by boutique · 2023-04-25 · in Fedora 38 LLVM vs. Team Fortress 2
  7. The original Half Life, including goldsrc, is source-available: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife
    comment by rmccue · 2023-02-02 · in Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser
  8. …this repo again while writing this comment (but I didn't put that much effort into it). </rant> 0. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/917#issueco... 1. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues/928 2.…
    comment by LambdaComplex · 2018-08-22 · in Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
  9. Interestingly, Half-Life (released in 1998) uses a slightly more complex table-based generator: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/blob/master/dlls/u... Note that this is only used for certain parts of the game. For others it uses a…
    comment by frontfor · 2015-07-01 · in The random number generator of DOOM
  10. I think it's here, as part of the HalfLife source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife
    comment by daxelrod · 2015-03-04 · in Valve Announces Source 2, and It’ll Be Free
  11. Look at the number of issues! https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/issues
    comment by voltagex_ · 2014-04-07 · in Half-Life 1 engine based games
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    story by ekianjo · 2014-04-07 · 49 comments