issue-8: reply to a question

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<p><strong>Question from S.</strong>: I've always been curious how folks are able to play games like old Half-Life mods (e.g. Counter-Strike); like is this some wine or Linux compatibility layer or do there exist builds of these games for OpenBSD?</p>
<p><strong>Solene@</strong>:</p>
<p><strong>Solene@</strong>: commercial video games running on OpenBSD are using various technologies. They can be run using a game engine implementation, meaning someone rewrote the game engine from scratch and you need to have the game assets (sounds, maps, graphics etc..) to play the game, sometimes it's not really clear as if it's really open source or leaked code, this is the case for the Gold Engine used to run Half-Life, hence this is why it's not available in ports. On the other hand, some games are written in programming language such as Java or C# which are virtual machines and they only rely on open source libraries that we have in ports, in that case it's often possible to run the game natively by replacing the original libraries by the one from ports and use java or mono to run the code.</p>
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