It's been a very long time since I've had to deal with this but I could of sworn it was fixed by a later patch for the game.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-10-24, 18:06:

It's been a very long time since I've had to deal with this but I could of sworn it was fixed by a later patch for the game.

I'm on 1.1.1.0 which as far as I know is the last official update. Could be a hack or unofficial patch had this feature, just don't know which one.

Well here it is - a top up to the last version of the CD-ROM/retail/pre-Steam version of Half-Life.

The included version of the main executable is a drop-in replacement to the one you end up with after patching the pre-Steam version of the game to 1.1.1.0. It runs the game in 32-bit color mode instead of 16-bit, so not cool if you're on a Voodoo2/3 for example, but great if you have a card that is capable of 32-bit rendering (TNT2, Geforce, Radeon, etc.) and have your desktop set to 32-bit color.

Someone also loved the Valve-logo enough to fix the shoddy encode that the original game ships with. As far as I can tell the two are not related - you can use the upgraded vid without the 32-bit color patch.

Same goes for the MP3 audio fix. If you have the audio tracks in mp3 format, the regular 1.1.1.0 release would mix the tracks for Opposing Force and the original game even though they're located in separate folders (valve\media and gearbox\media). The included hl_mp3_fix.asi-file seems to fix that problem (although you still need to record the tracks off your CDs separately, and name them appropriately).

I'm sure there are better patches for modern systems with wide-screen support etc. etc. but for those of us running Win95/98, but not wanting to swap between 16/32-bit color all the time, this is great!