Stoopid Half Life Tricks...
Thu, 2005-07-14 08:21 — f00
So, I have the "original" HL, it might be GOTY edition, not sure. However, for those of you who also have Macs and still have your HL (for Windows) disks and Virtual PC... give it a spin. With the resolution dumbed down to 640x480 its almost playable on my iBook G4. I found that the mouse is useless in this configuration because its too jumpy, but the keyboard controls work pretty well. It still looks like a low-frame-rate movie and this does make it a bit of a challenge.
No, I don't regularly play this way but it was funny to me that it almost worked. The original HL was geared for much slower systems than we are using on our game rigs today... slow enough it almost works in emulation! Makes me wonder where my DOOM II cd is...
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Re: Stoopid Half Life Tricks...
No, I don't regularly play this way but it was funny to me that it almost worked. The original HL was geared for much slower systems than we are using on our game rigs today... slow enough it almost works in emulation! Makes me wonder where my DOOM II cd is...
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Ok, so not that anyone necessarily cares but in doing something else with Virtual PC I found a setting that makes the mouse better. Look under Mouse in the settings and uncheck (or check) something having to do with windows mouse following mac mouse or vice versa. It will make pointing in some apps run much better. I suspect this fixes the unusable mouse in Half Life. It will still be a bit bumpy but I found out I was on low-power mode so that probably slowed things down.
And if you have a Mac and want to play the old Doom, Doom II, Chex Quest or other games... there is a Mac engine out on http://www.freshmeat.net/ just search for doom Mac or something.
Back to your regularly scheduled PC gaming...