Half Life 2 revisited!

HL2 - by far the best video game I ever played, is sadly windoze-only and so has languished on a shelf during my last few years of mac-dom... Until now!

Enter Codeweavers' Crossover Game, a specialized adaptation of Wine for the Mac, specialized for gaming, that is. In almost no time I had Steam installed, my Steam account recovered and my paid-for-years-ago copy of HL2 freshly downloaded and ready to run. I will admit it took a bit of tinkering to get things running - mostly because HL2 support is broken in the latest (7.2.1) build so I regressed to 7.1.1 - but now HL2 runs like clockwork and the game is just as brilliant this time around.

Of course this also opens a whole vista (pardon the irony) of old games which I can play again. My 8-core Mac Pro is more than capable of handling a little windows emulation and still running such games fluidly at a nice rez and gfx setting - so long as said games are supported by Crossover. But HL2 is The Daddy, and any other old games I get working are just icing on the cake.

Now, where did I put that crowbar...