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FreeVGUI

Free reimplementation of the Half-Life 1 GUI library, meant to stay API-compatible with the original and used with the Xash3D engine.

Rewrite Not stated released

Source code

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Commits, 30 days12

Latest releasev0.1Aug 23, 2026

Last pushSep 30, 2026

GitHub figures as of 2026-10-14, refreshed daily.

Facts

Original: Half-Life 1 VGUI library (1998)
Platform: Windows
Method: Rewrite
Provenance: Not stated what this means
Status: released
Licence: BSD-3-Clause
Team: FWGS
Started: 2024-09
Runs on: Windows, Linux
Needs the original: No

How to get it legally

Download it from the official repository. No original files are needed.

This project was rebuilt by FWGS. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.

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