''Yust like the old days'', people wil say.

HL1 takes place in the 2000s, the game was made in the 90s

doesn't make sense, half-life 1 takes place in '90-s and half-life 2 is around 20 years after half-life
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Black Mesa takes place in the early 2000s. This is accurate if you think the game takes place in 2001 or later.

windows longhorn monitors?

A scientist in Anomalous Materials mentions the ROFLcopter meme, which first appeared in 2003. This is consistent with Laidlaw's date provided in Raising the Bar, which would make this mod ideal if one were to do a playthrough with that in mind.

need download link

Can you send source? i'm genuinely curious.

no it was actually in 2000 as officially proved by valve or gearbox

Well. now its cannon that it takes place either in 2001 or 2002. so yeah windows xp makes the most sense.

@Jonah Yes it does. I use this myself.

Does this work with 1.0?

I agree with Hedy on this. The assets for the Aperture Science Projector slides in Portal actually use Windows Powerpoint's assets for Windows XP at the time so this or 98 would be the most ideal for your game.

the events of Half-Life 1 take place somewhere around 2000 and 2009. However, a note by Marc Laidlaw seen in Raising the Bar mentions the exact date of 2003. While it's not exactly canon, we can draw conclusions from this. Windows XP came out in 2001. Therefore, out of all the monitor screen mods, this one makes the most sense in the lore.

Since Half life 1 takes place in the early 2000s, this makes sense.

the black mesa incident occured because the GMAN talked the scientists into raising the anti-mass spectrometer too high.

@Cyberman Not sure if this is a joke, but no, the Black Mesa Incident happened because of all the computer failures and malfunctions. In Blue Shift when an elevator breaks, some scientists specifiaclly say that "It must be those anomalous materials people again, always pushing their computers too hard." This means that the scientists in anomalous materials are known for causing problems for themselves and in other parts of the facility. So there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the Black Mesa Incident was just due to the scientists in anomalous materials pushing their computers too hard, having them break, and therefore create a resonance cascade putting the entire facility in anarchy.

In response to Joe, The Black Mesa Incident itself roughly occurred on May 16th 2003, with the Resonance Cascade occurring 8:58AM. Latter events occurred on the 17th

Nevermind, I just had to wait

Doesn't work even though I exracted it to my custom folder, and told the gameinfo.txt to read the custom files.

@Not Blue Problebly not. The workshop has been broken for a long time. Just use the custom folder method for now.

Does this mod work now or not :/ ?

I'm pretty sure the black mesa incident happend somewhere at the beginning of the 2000's. Most likley around: 2000 - 2005

@Keith
Knew that, friend. I was saying that the belief that it was Gordon's first day in Black Mesa was retconned too.

Best mod ever for black mesa

Blue Screen of the Death - BSOD

the disaster was not caused by computers, nor the technology itself. It was an inside job, and the administrators didn't listen to any warnings.

If you think about everything that went wrong at Black Mesa, I would rather expect them using Windows Me

And the memories brout back by this addon.
Shit.

@Ottawa, you are speaking the truth, but it's not Gordon's first day at Black Mesa, proved by the fact everyone knows him in the A.M. facility, and proved because of the amount of beers Barney Calahoune owes him.

@The Doctor
Laidlaw, the main writer for the Half-Life series, somehow goofed when it came to his own creaton?
The notion that 1998 is the year in which the Black Mesa Incident occurred has already been retconned by Laidlaw himself, alongside the belief that Gordon's first day at work is on the same day as the Incident. May 16th, 200X is the established date in which the Black Mesa Incident occurs.

that windows great

nice

The Black Mesa incident took place at some point between 2000-2009 (some say probably in 2003) so Windows Xp was made when the events of the game happen

hope theres no ear rape windows start up

@General Gravel
In the official Half-Life timeline, Half-Life takes place in the 90s, or around 1998 to be specific. So me thinks Laidlaw goofed

Its Black Mesa, they can Afford it

Actually, Half-Life takes place between 2000, and 2009 as said by Marc Laidlaw himself.

Half Life takes place in the 90's, meaning that with this addon, Black Mesa were bribing the crap out of Bill Gates so they could get a fancy new operating system earlier.