Counter-Strike (From Beta 6.5 to Release 1.5) (STEAM)

If you own Half-Life 1 on STEAM, you can load older releases of Counter-Strike as Half-Life 1's mods.

Installation

1. Install Half-Life 1 (Steam)
2. Make sure you use the steam_legacy beta branch, otherwise some visual glitch may happen!

3. Download the releases of Counter-Strike you desire below inside the root folder of Half-Life (see below).
4. Once you installed the desired releases of Counter-Strike, restart STEAM. You should see them in your games list.

Versions of Counter-Strike's betas supported in Half-Life Steam

This table is adapted from the CounterStrike Betas repository on Github.

Troubleshooting

I see blue sparks!

You are using the default HL25's build, which contains minor visual glitches clientside, such as this one! You should use the steam_legacy beta branch to fix these issues.

The models are frozen upon a death in CS Beta 6.x !

This is a visual glitch that seem to happen during animations. Unfortunately no solution has been found yet.

Why is the mod name ************* on my STEAM Friends?

As VALVe copyrights the name, any unofficial mod or game being named "Counter-Strike" is purposely censored by STEAM in the Friends tab. Thankfully, it has no incidence at all, and you can still correct it.

All you have to do is to modify your liblist.gam file within your Counter-Strike mod folder and rename the game token to the version of Counter-Strike you're playing, such as CS Beta 7.0 or CS 1.3 for instance.