Developer runs original Half-Life on 2007 Nokia N95 at 30 FPS

Developer Dante D. Leoncini has got the original Half-Life running on a 2007 Nokia N95 at a steady 30 frames per second. He notes there is some slowdown but says, "I've already identified the cause and am working on a fix." Leoncini enabled mouse and keyboard input via the N95's Bluetooth support, though testing shows some latency consistent with Bluetooth 2.0.

Recent updates add performance and graphical tweaks, the ability to create dedicated servers and use all the game's weapons, and work is underway on LAN/network play so a room of N95s could theoretically run the game together. The project is available from Leoncini's website and targets Symbian S60v2.

To run it you move the original Half-Life files into a specified folder, install the engine downloaded from the site, and launch; the build includes a control list that allows play using the phone's own keyboard. The Nokia N95 shipped in 2007 with a 332 MHz ARM11 dual CPU and either 64 MB or 128 MB of memory depending on the model.

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