Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

	Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95(tomshardware.com)
	307 points by ljf 3 days ago \| 105 comments
	tl;dr: Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has ported the original Half-Life to the 2007 Nokia N95, achieving 30 FPS with mouse and keyboard support, though some slowdowns remain. The N95's 332 MHz dual-core ARM11 CPU, PowerVR MBX GPU, and 64MB RAM technically exceed Half-Life's 1998 minimum specs, but the port required a native Symbian build rather than emulation. Leoncini has previously ported Quake 3, Crash Bandicoot, and various emulators to the handset, and built a Blender clone called Blendersito for it.
	HN Discussion: ↑Nostalgic appreciation for the N95 and Symbian as a beloved platform of its era ↑Laments how modern hardware feels slow despite vastly more power than this old device •Frustration that Valve hasn't open-sourced the GoldSource engine, complicating such ports •Curiosity about technical execution of the port without official source code access •Tangential interest in related Symbian projects and the Chinese refurbished Nokia market