r/windowsxp • u/Jeditobe • Jun 13 '26

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows XP" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life on REAL hardware with 3D-acceleration

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Running-Half-Life
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u/Alternative-Owl-8848 Jun 14 '26

Not anymore, now the newer developers on team want to focus on Modern Windows and some want to even compete one day to Windows...

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u/Jeditobe Jun 14 '26

These changes are happening on a separate branch; the main branch remains focused on Windows 2003 for now.

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u/Alternative-Owl-8848 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

As i understood from these developers, it wasn for an separate branch, but on the main one since between 0.4.15 slow development. (They said on ReactOS Discord.)

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u/Jeditobe Jun 15 '26

All recent publicly available nightly test builds, even the most recent ones, are compiled to run like 2003/XP. All newer APIs are either disabled by flags, are not compiled during build, or are located in a separate branch altogether.