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The port was to feature an exclusive mission pack called Half-Life: Blue Shift, which was later released for PC as a standalone expansion pack, along with the new models created for the port.Īfter releasing their PlayStation 2 port, Gearbox began considering bringing Half-Life to the Nintendo GameCube as well. It was cancelled only a few weeks away from its projected release date, due to changing market conditions on June 15, 2001. It was stated that Captivation would be handling the technology work while Gearbox would create all of the new content. On February 14, 2000, the Dreamcast version was announced to be in developed by Gearbox Software and Captivation. Starting in January 1999, only one software engineer had a very short opportunity to begin work on the project, having access to the game's source code for three days, before the company received word that Sierra was closing them down, quickly cancelling this iteration of the port. This could be done by a possible source code release to allow modders to recompile and port over their mods.Ī Dreamcast port was initially planned to be developed by PyroTechnix, a division of Sierra at the time.
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It is unknown if the game was intended to have mod support.
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It was cut after Sierra's decision, possible to avoid a situation of a patch breaking the compatibility between the platforms sometime in the future. The game was designed with cross-platform capability in mind, which allowed Mac users to play with PC users online. Several years later, a second attempt almost brought this Mac port fruition, but this plan was once again came to an end, this time due to a rejection by Newell. This led to the cancellation of the project.


Sierra found out that the figures they were getting were nowhere near the projected sales, meaning the game would not sell enough to support the ongoing development it would need to keep it in sync with the updates to the PC version. Newell funded and hired Logicware to work on the project. Heineman claims that someone at Apple overestimated the number of units of the game would sell and told Gabe Newell that they can sell half a million units. According to Rebecca Heineman, a programmer on the project, the work on the game was nearly done, and it was three weeks away from the gold master when it was cancelled on October 19, 1999.
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Unrelated to the Mac OS X version that was ultimately released by Valve in 2013, the Macintosh (Mac OS) port of Half-Life was announced to be in development by Logicware on April 23, 1999. Both games were later ported to Mac OS X and Linux and released in 2013. The multiplayer portion was released in another package called Half-Life Deathmatch: Source in 2005.
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According to Doug Lombardi, it began as an experiment to see what modders would experience if they attempted to bring their Half-Life mods forward to Source. It uses the special effects and physics engine features of the new engine. It was released along with Half-Life 2 on November 16, 2004. Half-Life: Source is a direct port of Half-Life to the Source engine.
