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- Half-Life has been released for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers 28 years after its original release.
- The game is a story-driven first-person shooter following scientist Gordon Freeman escaping Black Mesa after an experiment opens a portal to an alien dimension.
- Originally planned for Mac OS 9 in 1999 but cancelled; Valve later released it for Intel Macs in 2013.
- The port was created by GitHub user doctashay using a fork of Xash3D FWGS, a re-implementation of the GoldSrc engine.
- The port is fully playable, includes multiplayer, a demo of Uplink, and downloads for Blue Shift and Opposing Force.
- Supports G3 and G4 PowerPC Macs running Mac OS 9.0 or later; performance depends on GPU, with machines having less than 8MB VRAM struggling.
- The release includes Half-Life, Half-Life: Blue Shift, and Half-Life: Opposing Force.
- This is a significant achievement for the Macintosh gaming community, with credit to doctashay.