Can't play Half Life on Mac (Catalina)

[lyonrichardson]

Getting exited for Half Life Alyx,...So I re-downloaded Steam, bought Half Life Complete, and only Downloaded Half Life (1) for now to get started. Only to be disappointed, because every time I hit the "Play" Button it runs, but the screen doesn't change...as the Button changes states from " Play" to "Cancel", then Back to "Play" with nothing happening. The game data even says i've played "1 minute" of game time.

What Am I missing?

[JasperFox]

Dunno mate, never encountered this problem.

[Ginger Jesus]

Unfortunately, Apple dropped support for 32-bit applications in macOS Catalina.[support.apple.com] I just downloaded the macOS version of Half-Life, and according to file,[en.wikipedia.org] hl_osx is a 32-bit application.

It looks like there is ways of getting 32-bit applications to work on Catalina, but I haven't tried any of them. I wish I could be of more help, but I don't use macOS on any of my machines.

[lyonrichardson]

Is there a 64-bit version of Half life?

[Ginger Jesus]

Originally posted by lyonrichardson:

Is there a 64-bit version of Half life?

No.

[poi]

I've been looking for a solution to this too. It seems that Bootcamp and a Windows 10 partition may be a way to run it. Folks also talk about Xash 3D, which seems bizarre as that's an Android port afaik, and hasn't been fully tested on Mac.
I'd love a simple solution but I'm not holding out much hope tbh.

[Ginger Jesus]

Originally posted by poi:

Folks also talk about Xash 3D, which seems bizarre as that's an Android port afaik, and hasn't been fully tested on Mac.

Xash3D is not an Android port. It does run on Android, but getting Half-Life to run on Android isn't its primary goal or purpose.

You might be able to compile 64-bit versions of Xash3D and the HLSDK. Xash3D dropped macOS support though,[github.com] so I doubt that it would work.

[lyonrichardson]

Originally posted by BananaCrook:

Originally posted by lyonrichardson:

Getting exited for Half Life Alyx,...So I re-downloaded Steam, bought Half Life Complete, and only Downloaded Half Life (1) for now to get started. Only to be disappointed, because every time I hit the "Play" Button it runs, but the screen doesn't change...as the Button changes states from " Play" to "Cancel", then Back to "Play" with nothing happening. The game data even says i've played "1 minute" of game time.

What Am I missing?

don't use mac.

Suuuuuuuuuuuper helpful

[fats]

Originally posted by lyonrichardson:

Originally posted by BananaCrook:

don't use mac.

Suuuuuuuuuuuper helpful

use windows

[buri.tech]

Originally posted by BananaCrook:

Originally posted by lyonrichardson:

Suuuuuuuuuuuper helpful

Dude, it's your fault you bought a mac. Macs aren't for games. Stop whining.

Stop saying this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stereotype sentences. I agree that Mac's target is not gamers. But it doesn't mean that Mac can't handle games. This was true before a lot of years.

[Yzal]

That's entirely Apple's fault.

[TREP]

Good luck

[Intri]

Originally posted by Lazy Dog:

That's entirely Apple's fault.

Not really because they have bootcamp so if mac doesn't support it run bootcamp so its not apple's fault if ur too lazy or something

[Yzal]

Originally posted by NoxiOus AssAssIn:

Originally posted by Lazy Dog:

That's entirely Apple's fault.

Not really because they have bootcamp so if mac doesn't support it run bootcamp so its not apple's fault if ur too lazy or something

Removing 32 bit support it's stupid.

[INCOMING KUNAI]

Originally posted by Lazy Dog:

Originally posted by NoxiOus AssAssIn:

Not really because they have bootcamp so if mac doesn't support it run bootcamp so its not apple's fault if ur too lazy or something

Removing 32 bit support it's stupid.

"Removing 32 bit support big update for gamers with 32 bit valve"
how can i play tf2 or cs go. apple/valve said choose boot camp. but i still using MacBook and i will not install windows on MacBook what do i not to do. Valve Please Why???

of curse i need to update MacBook to new macOS big sur butttt i still can't update because my MacBook Pro 13 inch (mid 2012) still unsupported MacBook. i can't update on big sur.
soooo. i make a mistake when paid for hl2 and still can't play. ofc steam can give money back but this is sad :'-(((( [/quote] Yes this is stupid valve

[swizz.IneX]

Originally posted by lyonrichardson:

every time I hit the "Play" Button it runs, but the screen doesn't change...as the Button changes states from " Play" to "Cancel", then Back to "Play" with nothing happening. The game data even says i've played "1 minute" of game time.

What Am I missing?

You can run Half Life natively on Mac, using the earlier mentioned Xash3d but from the awesome work at Mac Source Ports: https://www.macsourceports.com/game/halflife

Downside: it’s not compatible to launch within Steam, only „stand-alone“.

P.s.: that version of Xash3d also works with Blue Shift + Opposing Force.