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The Open Source Half-Life Dedicated Server is the result of about nine months of reverse engineering*. It's not a perfect reproduction. It's not even good enough to really warrant use at this time. But it DOES work, and can provide a lot of insight into the inner workings of Half-Life. There are timing issues, there might be bullet trace issues, and although mods should work, right now most of them don't. PAK files must be unpacked, compiling under any OS is a real pain, and most of the optional features are, well, missing or broken. It'll get there, it'll get there. But it'd get there a lot faster with some support. Source and executable (15 June): Here Recompiled HL dll without Frame Pointer Optimization: Here (reversing isn't illegal in and of itself, but an argument can be made that this violates the US DMCA since the authentication of clients is removed. Seeing as how Won2, you know, exists despite regular servers having that, I could make a counter-argument pretty easily. Of course, I'd probably elect to just move hosting to the Netherlands rather than deal with the US court system, but the argument could still be made.