QEMU Best of Half-Life GOTY Edition, Blue Shift & Opposing Force (2001)(EAX) -- From Install to Play
6Valve Half-Life was a successful franchise spanning several major expansions that told the story at different perspective. Most notably the single-player campaigns in Blue Shift and Opposing Force. The publishers released several bundles that include all of the best from Half-Life in Anthology and Platinum bundles in retail as the best collectors edition for Games Preservation. Gearbox Software even threw in an Official High Definition Pack that updated mostly the models for every Half-Life games.
Nevertheless, the relationship between Valve and Apple as history recorded wasn't as cordial. The Half-Life original port for the Macs in 1998 was cancelled. When Valve eventually ported the games to Macs after 15 years the games was released on PCs, then Apple deprecated OpenGL and killed off 32-bit support on the Macs. Nowadays, Steam still sells Macs version of Half-Life games that require 32-bit support that has been essentially DEAD on modern Macs for many years.
QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx is ONE of the ways to play every Half-Life games on modern Apple Silicon Macs. It is part of the show in Games Preservation that prioritizes retail originality, pristine condition and playability beyond Windows OS and x86 PCs, all within the peace-of-mind in VM isolation. Never fiddle with complexity of source-ports, modding or moving games content from one source to another. For many who already owned the retail CDs in PC versions, it is as simple as From Install to Play in 15 mins, for a small donation to support the project and Games Preservation. Otherwise, have FUNs into the journey of FOSS towards building one's own QEMU featuring qemu-3dfx. It is quite possible, after all these Half-Life games play best in OpenGL hence relieving from yet another complexity in build-your-own WineD3D. The other *\*STUPID & RETARDED\** PC emulation FULL of *Accuracy \*BS\** are NO MATCH within Apple macOS for the *USELESS* whatever Voodoos emulation despite Apple Silicons may be their best CPU ever in single-thread performance. The absolute *RUBBISH* whatever Voodoos emulation become ever more retarded in missing the recompiler outside of x86 CPUs compared to TRUE GPU acceleration from qemu-3dfx. So much for such FREE but USELESS PC emulation FULL of *Accuracy \*BS\** and totally irrelevant in retro gaming.