Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS(discuss.haiku-os.org)

131 points by m0do1 4 hours ago | 16 comments

tracker1 15 minutes ago |

Nifty to see... I always liked BeOS/Haiku from a tech perspective, but really don't care nearly as much for the UX or ergonomics... I really like a lot of the Windows 10 start menu and taskbar, but I do hate the MS search results/ads,etc so I switched to Linux for non-work and mostly Cosmic since later alphas.

LorenDB 2 hours ago |

Looks like this may have been based on the nillerusr Source engine, which is based on a 2020 leak of the Source sources. nillerusr's engine has also been used to port some Valve games to Android.

limsungkee 25 minutes ago |

Dang. Half-Life 2 ruled my high school life. it is still insane.

bullen 1 hour ago |

I think HL2 on portable 5W ARM linux is more interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl1nrDvmiII

Rohansi 11 minutes ago | |

I know it's not as cool but the Steam Deck can run HL2 at just as low power consumption with it's AMD APU.

andai 54 minutes ago | |

I wanted to say, 5 watts, doesn't HL2 already run on Raspberry Pi? But then I realized, this thing seems to be powered by some kind of rpi?

https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/uconsole-kit-rpi-cm...

That's pretty cool though, do you have a video of it running on the device itself?

MomsAVoxell 30 minutes ago |

This is great, but can we get a port to BeBox please. ;)

yakk0 2 hours ago |

looking forward to see Action Retro's shenanigans on YouTube with this.

jordand 1 hour ago | |

I've watched his previous videos on Haiku and haven't been impressed with him. He doesn't seem to have in-depth knowledge of how software and drivers work, which is especially important given how work-in-progress it all is, and that the lineage of Haiku goes back to BeOS. The community has done a lot of good work, and he doesn't grasp it fully.

prmoustache 1 hour ago | | |

Yes, you have seen a video and you have seen them all. It can be resumed to "will it run minecrafts (or one of its clones)".

I guess he figured out the short 10-15min format is better for engagement bevause people brains have been destroyed by tiktok and instagram reels and barely anyone can concentrate for 30min on a subject but really it makes for very uninformative vids.

AshamedCaptain 42 minutes ago |

What I find depressing is because of idiotic Linux policies, it turns out nvidia hardware is easier to run on a 3rd party OS than hardware with otherwise fully open source drivers like Radeon.

This is just yet another example that you may think things in the hardware world have changed now that Linux "rules", but they have not.

tadfisher 25 minutes ago | |

Are you talking about driver ABIs or something else?

parisiansam 57 minutes ago |

i wonder how many people are using haikuos enough to make frontpage of video game on that os ?

nemomarx 52 minutes ago | |

When people get doom running on a toaster, do you also ask how many people game on a toaster? It's more about the technical challenge of the whole deal.

InsideOutSanta 17 minutes ago | |

I wonder how many people are flying to space in rockets for rocket launches to make the frontpage? It's just interesting. Haiku is cool, and getting relatively complex games to run on it is a good signal that it is making progress.

nharada 37 minutes ago | |

I love it, this is OG hacker news