Half-Life porting for Amiga and Linux

[XDelusion]

A port of Half-Life 2 would be more worth while. I am sure that sooner or later Half-Life will go open source in which case someone can port it for free.

Speaking Of Which, why hasn't anyone taken an interest in the Aliens VS Predator sources?!?!

[Kronos]

Half-Life opensource ? Or a licence for sale ?

When was the last time Sierra did anything like that ?

Yeah, right , NEVER !!!


And than, why YABFPS-game when Sierra has such great titles as Grand-Prix-Legends
or Empire-Earth  :-o

But, I would say, just ports are boring, and I would very much prefer something atleast
a bit orginal, even if it is just a "shoot all the lemmings"-mod for Quatsch2  :-D

[mikeymike]

Also, why does it have to be opensource?  It can be closed source on Linux and the world doesn't end :-)

[Ni72ous]

Not worth it for 2 reasons.

1) they wont port it unless you pay them

2) IMO the game is totally crap

[Warface]

Whether or not the AOS4/AmigaOne combo will be able to handle a game like HL (or more importantly, HL2) is unknown to me. Can someone tell me if it can?

AFAIK HalfLife is based on the Quake2 engine, not? Which runs almost flawlessly on a 604e/Voodoo, not to mention the G3/G4 speeds.

HL mods don't need recompiling.... i think.

I dunno myself, but as Quake2 mods require recompiling... Anyone knowing about that?

[odin]

@warface:

Actually the HL-engine is a heavily modified Q1-engine.

And my guess is HL-mods would need recompiling.

[mikeymike]

@ NitrousB

2) IMO the game is totally crap

And so everyone else must think that too.

[Lando]

Speaking Of Which, why hasn't anyone taken an interest in the Aliens VS Predator sources?!?!

I looked at them, with a view to porting to MorphOS.  But I decided it would take more time effort to port than I have available.  It really needs a lot of work (more than a single-man could do in their spare time unless they gave up their lives).

[Lando]

I'm not an expert in these matters, but would I be right in thinking that if HL requires a P166 and 64MB, it would be possible to run it on a G3/G4 under emulation, if such an emulation solution exists of course...

I suppose it might work in software rendering under Virtual PC if you run Mac OS X on top of Mac-On-Linux under Debian on your A1 / Peg.  

Frame rates would not be anything to speak of though...

[Ni72ous]

@mikeymike

And so everyone else must think that too.

People can like/play what they want, i have no control of what others like/play nor would i want to dictate what others like/play, Just stating my own opinion of the game, IMO it would be better to have new games made specificly for amiga, yeah port some games but newer ones, old games will not help make the miggy more popular, most people have a pc anyway so play it on that, usually the original is better anyway.

[legion]

Its a waste of time for 2 reasons:

1) There would be no market.  THe linux community likes their software free, and there isn't enough of an amiga marketshare to make it worthwhile, even if the source was simply licensed to hyperion and they were solely responsible to recoup costs.

2)  the Amiga graphics subsystem won't be re-worked until 4.1.  An AmigaOne + Radeon 8500 would run it quite well, but the OS isn't ready for the 3-D engine yet.  

Ah, but to dream.... :-(

[n-ary]

Whats this?

For now, I'm 'happy *cough* to use a M$ platform for gaming (what it is best suited for).
..yet hoping to see an AOS/Morphy system capable of taking over the real computing needs of an average geek.

Games will not be "the thing" for NG amigalike platforms, no way - its a minor issue for most of the potential buyers.

I mean, gamingwise, usable PC systems today cost  0$ (relatively speaking). Why not use such a thingy aside of an AOS/MOS system, through the crossover period?

It's not the 80's anymore.

[ottomobiehl]

It used to be the killer games were made on the Amiga and the dos/windows crowd clamoured to get them ported to their system.
That is what needs to happen now instead of trying to get the scraps from the windows crowd to the Amiga.

Just my 2 cents

[Warface]

It used to be the killer games were made on the Amiga and the dos/windows crowd clamoured to get them ported to their system.
That is what needs to happen now instead of trying to get the scraps from the windows crowd to the Amiga.

Just my 2 cents

Look how they started and where they are now :-) So going for ports as start is a good move to make I think :-)

[mikeymike]

@ NitrousB

Just stating my own opinion of the game

But what was the point?  The comment was neither useful to anyone else or constructive.

[Ni72ous]

@Mikeymike

But what was the point? The comment was neither useful to anyone else or constructive.

niether is this thread, no matter how many people sign the petition it wont get ported.