Re: (clug-talk) (OT) Half-life server for linux

[nathan wainwright]

Actually on the topic of Windows on a mac... M$ did buy up either Connectix, or atleast there windows emulator for mac os... currently there is a version of it to run windows 2000/?xp? on mac os 9, and osX.

Jason Louie wrote:

ohh... the horror.  Microsoft finally getting Windows on a Mac.  Kinda makes those newbie questions as a tech. support "Can I upgrade my MacOS to Windows?" not so dumb anymore.  Ick.

I don't see why you couldn't compile wine on a Mac.  Assuming of course that the wine source is not too archetectural dependant on the x86 system.

Kevin Anderson wrote:

Is there an x86 emulator for the MAC?  Perhaps Wine would run it?  I assume
Wine is compilable for the MAC?

Kev.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curtis Sloan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:31 AM
Subject: RE: (clug-talk) (OT) Half-life server for linux


  

Er, yes that's a good point.  I see now -- it's about architecture not OS.
:-P  My bad.

I'm pretty sure that HL is compiled for x86 only.  Sorry about that.

On a side note, I don't believe that full source code is available (for
obvious proprietary reasons), but the SDK is the code that VALVe released
    

to
  

allow other parties to develop other games/mods, etc. based on the HL
engine.

Curtis

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Clement [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeffrey
Clement
Sent: October 8, 2003 11:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) (OT) Half-life server for linux


    

From my knowledge and experience with HL, there should be no problem
      

running
    

a Linux server on a Mac -- so long as the Mac is running Linux.  :-P
      

The
  

dedicated server mostly just handles traffic and algorithms -- nothing
really OS specific.
      

Do they actually give out the source for the HL server?  From a quick
google it looks like they provide binaries only and most likely these
are for i386.  If they only provide binaries for i386 that isn't going
to work on a Mac.  Linux binaries will only work for the architecture
they were compiled for.

This is assuming that the binary packages are not java code or something
like that.

Jeff




    

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Jason Louie BSc. CPSC
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Sorex Software Inc.
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