Simon wrote:it was either a amd 486/133 or a celeron 300, 32mb of ram and as for graphics i have no idea, i was only 10 or 11 at the time. It must have been something somewhat capable because it played blood2 ok and i dont think blood had a software mode.
Considering Blood 2 takes a monster to run compared to Half-Life at the time, it's your celeron. Blood 2 indeed has a software mode.
Half-Life totally sucks on AM5x86, been there done that 😀 the floating point usage literally force grips the cpu to death. Figuratively it runs like molasses, even in plain deathmatch with NO PLAYERS it runs 4fps, and this is with a 3d card!
Software Half-Life doesn't look too bad actually considering it only supported that during its production until sometime mid-97 when they adopted OpenGL support from the Quakeworld base.