Being weened on the Apple ][ and the original Pong home videogame, I've been a casual gamer for good long time, though mostly on the Mac as a platform. I stopped in 2004 or so because, well, I was busy as an adult, and fed up with things like Half Life never coming out for Mac. Then, earlier this year, I found out that Valve was finally releasing steam and the HL2 series to run on Macs. However, due to the less than stellar performance on my four year old iMac, I turned to running HL and HL2 on my Mac using Cider/Wine (Windows virtualization,) and finally Crossover Games, which allows me to use the Windows version of Steam & Games on my Mac without booting Windows. This also has allowed me to explore the wonderful world of Half Life 2 mods...

Date	Post	Comment/Link
04 Jan 2011	Sebastian	Playing through Sebastian, I have the feeling that I've returned . There's something very familia...
04 Jan 2011	Sebastian	Responding to (without giving it away): You should try parking in garage in New York City som...
01 Jan 2011	Hamlet Combat	Though I have to agree with others that is quite pretty and well laid out, I found that the comb...
15 Nov 2010	The Sprucecape Mappack	Upon finishing the I find myself with contradictory feelings about this fairly short mod. The co...
11 Nov 2010	Kallaim	Phillip - I'm curious. Is there any way to find out what "issues" Sharpentine addressed in the up...
05 Nov 2010	Kallaim	is single map mod that defies my concept of how big a map can be with such a quick load time. So...
30 Oct 2010	Overheid	I'm afraid I have to agree with other posters who think it would be better to wait until all or a...
24 Oct 2010	Poll Question 195 - Do you chat in Steam Friends when you are playing games or mods?	I'm old too, and feel pretty much the same way. Of course, it's not an issue for me, as I don'...
24 Oct 2010	The Citizen	Being a parallel timeline mod, definitely gives you the feeling you've re-entered the Half-Life ...
10 Oct 2010	Random Quest	After reading 's read me file - as Phillip recommended - I was expecting a quite different mod fr...
05 Oct 2010	Combine Ether	I've been in contact with about a problem with the music files not playing in this mod, and he s...
03 Oct 2010	Pyramid	is one of those mods which doesn't make any attempt to create an extension of the Half-Life worl...
03 Oct 2010	Minerva	It took Adam Foster, the sole author, about two and half years to complete , in three parts, and ...
23 Sep 2010	Valve, You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourselves	As a Mac user, I entered into the current Source engine only just this year as running/virtualizi...
23 Sep 2010	Valve, You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourselves	Also, Gabe invites players to contact him . Why bother if he hardly ever replies?
20 Sep 2010	Eye Of The Storm 2 Uncompleted	I agree with Kyouryuu. Valve should be blamed. It is a classic "bite the hand that feeds you" sit...
19 Sep 2010	Enthalpy 2	For a singe map file, feels satisfyingly long, full of twists and turns that are not entirely li...
19 Sep 2010	Enthalpy	Thanks - though I have to admit that Phillip very graciously created the graphics and the col...
18 Sep 2010	Enthalpy	This map is very playable, not presenting any impossible situations where you are left wondering ...