Developer Gets Half-Life Running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95
ljf
20 points
7 comments
June 08, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
ljf
To me the Nokia N95 was close to a perfect phone, only the E61 or 62 then the E72 could beat it, especially for the price at the time. I still like to think of a parallel time line where Symbian actually had a good and usable app store, and developers had been supported.
kotaKat
I noticed quite recently in awe at the Chinese parts recycling market with the N95 (and a few other old Nokias) - https://www.ebay.com/itm/227249518747 Apparently they've been rebuilding full "new" N95s and other Nokia fare from old motherboards and new spares/knockoff parts. It's like a new legitimate knockoff from the grey market? They've even got things like 'refurbed' N900s... Mine came with a text message still in the inbox from testing it with a test SMS on China Mobile in 2025 - so even the modem works! I'll have to give this a shot on my own N95. https://leoncini.com.ar/proyecto.php?id=xash3d since it's not linked from TomsHardware.
jamesfinlayson
Impressive. Shame Valve still hasn't open-sourced the GoldSource engine yet, though I suppose Nexon and the Sven Coop lead dev have paid licenses that they still want to extract value from.