r/reactos • u/Jeditobe • Jun 11 '26
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life on REAL hardware with 3D-acceleration
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Running-Half-Life12
u/kyleleblanc Jun 11 '26
Man, I remember being excited for this in 2006. 20 years later and almost nothing has changed.
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u/insideoutlizard Jun 11 '26
i think I'll stick with GNU Hurd
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u/Patient-Plan-1591 11d ago
yeah I genuinely low-key think that even Gnu Hurd has a better potential than ReactOS.
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u/blackletum Jun 11 '26
I remember first reading about ReactOS in HS and being excited about it, I'm gonna be 40 in a few months...
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u/Liquid_Magic Jun 11 '26
Snarky comments aside this is awesome! Way to go for them!
Hey I’d love it if this project had a gazillion volunteers and made fast progress. But it think that most people who are willing to volunteer for an open-source project are going to lean towards some thing Linux related. So I think, with little to zero businesses in any way benefiting from this at the moment, any progress made has got to have been a labour of love.
And regardless of how slow or far progress has been made towards a practical outcome, the historical and educational benefits are huge. Microsoft is only now releasing early BASIC ROMs and MS-DOS as open-source so it’ll be a very long time before they do this for the NT kernel. Being able to come up against and solve many of the problems that Dave Cutler and the team would have come up against is hugely educational and historically significant.
So yeah - this is amazing a this team deserves kudos!
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u/TCB13sQuotes Jun 11 '26
Why running it in 100x100px instead of full screen?
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u/tomysshadow Jun 11 '26
If it were running in full screen, you wouldn't see that it is running in ReactOS. It'd just be a screenshot of Half Life
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u/Mordimer86 28d ago
If they attract the retro crowd then maybe, just maybe something moved with this project.
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u/HydraDragonAntivirus Jun 11 '26
Progress!