Xash3D (Half-Life compatible engine) port

[maximqad]

Well, this is a bit of self-advertisement.
I’m currently working on porting xash to Dreamcast, so our Dreamcast brothers can have proper half life with mod support and net play.

Currently in early stages, this is running on 32MB RAM with SDL 1.2 and gldc.
Project roadmap:
Implement properly accelerated rendering via gldc
Multiplayer (via modem or BBA)
Mod support with custom code (dlls).

A few screenshots are:

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[bjankins1]

Read into what this engine is, very interesting

[Nico0020]

Very cool!

[fafadou]

This engine is great !

[NeoSnk]

I'm very excited for this.

[maximqad]

Hello guys, thanks for your interest.
A minor update, currently I’m working on networking.
For a minor test I have succeeded to connecting from emu via bba to local pc server, but at this time I have crashes on dc, when engine is precaching map, but this problem doesn’t happen on singleplayer. I think I get this settled in on weekends.

[bjankins1]

So this will be the original half life and blue shift using this? Just curious because I still have not had a chance to half life, while I could download this on my laptop, I would love to be able to experience this on DC

What differences besides multiplayer are different from this build your working on compared to the unreleased builds available

[maximqad]

So this will be the original half life and blue shield using this? Just curious because I still have not had a chance to half life, while I could download this on my laptop, I would love to be able to experience this on DC

What differences besides multiplayer are different from this build your working on compared to the unreleased builds available

Well, technically it will run any mod (if Dreamcast can handle mod resources) with custom code, if it is open-sourced.
For example we can have CS 1.6 on Dreamcast, since CS 1.6 client was reimplemented in C++.
Secondly, it will open possibilities for indie dc dev, since xash/gold source perfectly fits as FPS engine of that era.
Networking/Multiplayer can also be cross-platform (for example PC and DC players can play on one server) if protocol limits won’t be lowered later for reducing ram usage.

[bjankins1]

That’s pretty awesome, if we could play counter strike on dc online that would be insane

[Anthony817]

What the actual fuck!? How is this even possible when the OG Xbox port pretty much required 128mb RAM mod since 64mb ran out of memory? Please explain how you are able to achieve this even with the 32mb mod? I do know that on PSP there was a version of XASH3d that was kind of working, but I do not remember if it required the PSP Slim which had twice the memory of launch version systems. Even so, I am wishing you the best of luck with this project!