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divine
12-05-2010, 21:04
To celebrate the launch of the Mac version of Steam, Portal is free to 'buy' for a while.

If you've not played this before, take the opportunity, it is a truly fantastic game.
Joe 90
12-05-2010, 23:04
i'll get it on mac then :D hurrah
Del Lardo
12-05-2010, 23:53
mmm, free maybe, downloadable nope! Looks like it's been a victim of its own success, I'll try again tomorrow.
Joe 90
13-05-2010, 01:12
yeah, looks like its under heavy load, speed is terrible :(
NokkonWud
13-05-2010, 03:06
It may be one of the most overrated games of all time, but for free I can't complain in getting it again.
Joe 90
13-05-2010, 04:02
I noticed a few "offers" in the latest news. Are there any actual bargains to be had?
Burble
13-05-2010, 08:46
I really liked Portal but found it had very limited appeal. I left it downloading when I went to bed and it was crawling along at about 200K/s.

I wonder when the Half-Life series will be available on the Mac, I tried last night but ti says they're not supported but I read somewhere that it would be supported.
divine
13-05-2010, 11:48
They're releasing a wave of Mac games every Wednesday so it'll be in the next few weeks or so for HL2 i'd expect. I dunno if HL1 will be made Mac available though, or if it's just Source engine games.
Goose
13-05-2010, 12:53
I played Portal on my Mac this morning. It's a short game (and I already own it), still I always feel happy completing it. :D
Daz
13-05-2010, 16:30
I've grabbed it with the increasingly rising hopes that Steam and the Source engine is coming to Linux as well :)
Burble
13-05-2010, 22:38
They're releasing a wave of Mac games every Wednesday so it'll be in the next few weeks or so for HL2 i'd expect. I dunno if HL1 will be made Mac available though, or if it's just Source engine games.

Excellent, I didn't know they were phasing the releases in.

I read that the 'Half-Life Series' would be available so I'm assuming that HL1 et al will be part of that.
divine
13-05-2010, 22:41
I suppose it depends on how compatible the old Goldsource engine is and how much alteration it would need, if it's a relatively quick job I expect they'll do it.

edit - a quick look suggests it used to be able to render in DirectX and OpenGL so it may well appear, as the OpenGL renderer should pretty much just run really.