Counter-Strike Betas (From Beta 1.0 to Beta 6.2)

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

Installation Guide

1. Install Half-Life 1 (Retail).
2. Patch your game to version 1.0.1.6 as well as this fix (the last version that is compatible with these beta builds of Counter-Strike).
3. Download the releases of Counter-Strike you desire below, in the root folder of Half-Life.
4. If you did it right, you should see your mods in the Custom game category within the Half-Life 1 menu.

Alternatively, you can download this archive on MEGA which contains Half-Life 1 already patched to this version, as well as containing all major builds of Counter-Strike (Beta 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.2, 6.1).

Versions of Counter-Strike's betas supported in HL 1.0.1.6

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

Create a Server

Using Docker

You can create a server using Docker by using my GitHub project.

Using Windows

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 MAXPLAYERS=16
set PORT=27015
set GAME=cstrk11
set MAP=cs_assault

start hlds.exe -game %GAME% +maxplayers %MAXPLAYERS% +map %MAP%