Development thread
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What is Half-Life Launch Pad?
Half-Life Launch Pad is an application to ease the process of loading mods and maps for Source and GoldSource. Supported games are:
WON Half-Life and mods
Steam Half-Life and mods
Source Games
Source Mods
(Stand alone games like Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat and Team Fortress Classic are not (yet) supported)
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What are its features?
- WON Half-Life, Steam Half-Life, Source and SourceMods support
- Filter support
- Launch a map in DeathMatch mode by checking the DeathMatch mode checkbox (WON & Steam HL only)
- Launches any mod/map installed on your system (note: does not read from PAK/GCF files!)
- Launch a mod/map by simply doublecliking the mapname in the list
- Can be send to the system tray. From there you can launch a mod/map by richtclicking on the tray icon and select a map from the contextmenu
- From the system tray, you also launch the game/mod without a map. This will bring you to the main menu of the game/mod
- Monitors paths and updates the list on the fly when it detects a change in directoryname or filename or when a directory of file is created or deleted
- Check for updates
- No longer uses the Windows Registry to store application settings (Except for the Start With Windows option)
- Start with Windows
Current Version
The current version is 1.0.0.51, Released July 24, 2012.
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Downloads
Half-Life Launch Pad 1.0.0.51
IMPORTANT! You need to have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed before you can run it. HLLP won't run without it. Get the Framework 2.0 package here.
The two dll files that come with the download are required by the application. Without them, the application won't run.
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Known issues and bugs in the current version
Launching a map from a Source mod does not seem to work, it'll only bring you to the menu screen of the mod.
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Final notes
I'd like to thank Archie for his launch button and Captain Terror for his excessive testing of my software. Thanks to him, tons of bugs and glitches have been eliminated. Thanks man!
We all know that bug-free software doesn't exist, so if you still find any bugs, please post them in this thread, or e-mail me. This is very important to me.
If you just want to tell me what you think of my application, please do so, it's greatly appreciated!
I hope you find my software useful.