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ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

143 pointsby jeditobeyesterday at 11:22 PM25 commentsview on HN

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theturtletalkstoday at 4:15 AM

Given enough time, open-source will win. Just think about how more and more people are programming and how that will draw them to open-source.

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NooneAtAll3today at 12:42 AM

something I wondered for a while

do windows viruses get ported by such efforts as well?

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ajrosstoday at 12:36 AM

While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)...

I think what is being claimed, but not explicitly in the article, is that this is running the NVIDIA driver stack (for an ancient GeForce 8 card) directly, as opposed to emulating DirectX at the API level on top of a Vulkan driver.

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doawootoday at 3:42 AM

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alaskahoffmantoday at 1:32 AM

reactos has been in development for 28 years and it can run half-life on real hardware. that is approximately how long half-life 1 itself has existed in the first place!