The earliest versions of Counter-Strike use an older version of the Half-Life SDK (known as HLSDK 1.X) that are incompatible with the current releases of Half-Life, thus requiring an older release of the game in order to play them.

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We are also using Half-Life version 1.0.1.6 as it is the latest version that supports the first version of the HLSDK before VALVe breaks compatibility with these older mods. You can read their `liblist.gam` files to have an idea of what version of Half-Life 1 they were targeting.

2) Patch your game to version [1.0.1.6](./10051016.EXE) as well as [this fix](./1016fix.exe).

4) If you did it right, you should see your mods in the Custom game category within the Half-Life 1 menu.


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If you desire hosting a server that no Linux binaries are provided, the only way is to use Windows to create a server. You can create a batch to automate that (see example below)

Batch example: Hosting a CS Beta 1.1 server on cs_assault, using port 27015 (the default one) with a maximum of 16 players:

set GAME=cstrk11