[gu009]

Mac Source Ports has a macOS version of this, including Apple Silicon support. Played it recently and it works very well despite a couple of annoyances.

Mac Source Ports is fantastic overall, there’s a ton of other games available too.

http://www.macsourceports.com/game/halflife

[skrrtww]

Thanks! I had not seen this. Am I missing something, or is his actual build not open source?

edit: Here it is. This looks like a good place to work from: https://github.com/MacSourcePorts/xash3d-fwgs

Looks like the main annoyance is no resolution scaling; the game always renders at the size of the window, which at high pixel densities is a problem for the text rendering (it's tiny). Should be solvable for someone motivated though.

[a1ba]

Maintainer here.

We have upstream support for macOS now, since there is at least one person ready to work on it.

Well, thankfully, it doesn't require too much work, except some Apple specifics. If someone could set up a CI build, that would be awesome.

[fnky]

I personally didn't have an overall problem compiling the project on macOS in the past. The only issue I ran into was not being able to get VGUI to work, so there were no HUD in-game. Last I did this was ~6 months ago, though, so it could be things have improved now.

[a1ba]

VGUI usually isn't used for HUD drawing.

If you have problems, better report them at our issue tracker on GitHub. Even if it was unsupported configuration, there might be somebody who knows how to fix this exact issue.