• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Why? It was just a PC on the inside with a slimmed down Windows 2000 variant as the OS. Storage concerns aside, it was probably a very straightforward port, just rip out the Steam bindings, and it probably ran pretty immediately.

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      8 months ago

      Right, architecturally it was probably pretty simple. But the minimum system requirements for HL:2 versus the Xbox’s hardware is pretty stark:

      Half-Life 2 minimum requirements for PC:

      CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz
      Memory: 512 MB
      Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6100
      
      

      Xbox System Specs:

      CPU:  Intel Pentium III 733 MHz
      Memory:  64 MB (shared with GPU)
      Graphics:  Custom NVidia based on Geforce 3
      

      Edit: Definitely meaning the original Xbox and not the 360. Was one of the last games I bought for the original and still have it :)

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      8 months ago

      Noooo, it was not that simple. Search MVG hl2 port on YouTube and watch and see why the port is actually very impressive

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      8 months ago

      Half life predates steam

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          8 months ago

          This is about half life on the dreamcast, not hl2.

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            8 months ago

            This comment chain is actually about HL2.