Re: [9front] 50$ bounty for Half-Life in 9

["José Miguel Sánchez García" <soy.jmi2k@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Sorry, me making it so concise was a bit tongue-in-cheek (partly
because bounties in the 9front page aren't extensively defined, partly
because I'm aware of the complexities that could arise while porting
it). I would love to build and play the game natively in a 9 system,
using the original sources or maybe using a port of Xash3D for 9.
AFAIK, the original Half-Life sources are distributed alongside the
Half-Life SDK. One of the main hurdles is that the game is written in
C++, so that rules out any attempt of just adapting the source code to
make it work with the C compiler. Xash3D is written in C, so that
gives me a bit of hope.

Just to be clear: I'm not in any way asking for it to be done
expecting to have it soon. I'm aware of (some?) of the difficulties of
such a project. But if someone decides to work on it and ends up with
a playable result, I'll be more than willing to thank him with this
bounty.

Cheers,
jmi2k

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 6:56 PM Elias Fleckenstein
<fleckenstein@elidragon.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Please make it more clear what your requirements are.
>
> Do you want the source code to be ported to Plan 9 C or do you just want
> to somehow be  able to run the game inside of Plan 9? Because the latter
> can be achieved by emulating a linux system using vmx and then using
> wine inside that system to run the game.
>
> If you want us to port the source code, where do we even obtain the code?
>
> Fleckenstein
>
>
> On 30.08.21 15:53, José Miguel Sánchez García wrote:
> > To bring the Year of 9 Gaming a bit closer.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > jmi2k