Half-Life Console Detailed Help
Here are step-by-step instructions for making it so
that you can access the Half-Life console. This requires passing a command-line
parameter to the Half-Life executable (hl.exe). The parameter required
is "-console" (and there are other parameters
for other purposes). If you don't understand that, or don't care, that's
OK -- just follow the instructions carefully and you'll have the console
open very soon.
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Go to Start -> Find Files or Folders
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Enter "hl.exe" into the Named: box and click Find Now
(omit the quotes).
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In a few seconds a red Halflife icon will appear in
the large white window at the bottom of the Find dialog.
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Use your RIGHT mouse button to drag the red HalfLife
icon and drop it anywhere on your desktop (not in a window or folder, just
the anywhere on the background).
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Find the new icon on your desktop called "Shortcut to
hl.exe", right click on it, and select Properties.
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In the "Shortcut to hl.exe Properties" dialog that appears,
click on the Shortcut tab at the top.
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Click inside the white Target: box and add a SPACE followed
by "-console", like this: " -console" (no quotes) to the end. Don't
forget the space before the "-console" part. So you should have something
like C:\SIERRA\Half-Life\hl.exe -console NOTE:If your path to
hl.exe contains spaces, you MUST put double quotes before the C: and after
the hl.exe, but not around the -console. For example:"C:\Program
Files\SIERRA\Half-Life\hl.exe" -console
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Click OK, then double click the "Shortcut to hl.exe"
icon on your desktop to play HalfLife withthe console available.
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You can get to the console by clicking the gray "Console"
button in the upper-left corner of the main menu or, once you are playing
the game, hit ` (they key with the ~ tilde symbol on it -- but don't hold
down shift).
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If the tilde (~) key doesn't bring down the console,
try clicking the CONSOLE button on the main menu. If that works,
you can then try binding a key to toggleconsole ('bind c toggleconsole'
without the quotes). If that works, you can permanently bind the
key by creating a text file named autoexec.cfg in Half-Life/Sierra/Valve
containing the line 'bind c toggleconsole' (no quotes, and you can replace
the 'c' with any key you want).
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When using the console, you can use the up and down
arrows to recall previously typed lines of text for modification and editing.
You can also use PageUp and PageDown to scroll the console screen.
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