Okay so nothing groundbreaking but you can actually get the TF2 game code (not the engine itself) from The Orange Box disc working pretty easily with Steam. You can just get the Source SDK Base 2007 on Steam (build 4104) and place the tf folder extracted from the disc in Steam's sourcemods folder, …

Well, I didn't test that yet but I think HL2 and EP1 from the disc work, though. The fact it requires steam means the game is a dud on disc. Officially, yes. However, I live in the EU where we got the very interesting Oracle VS UsedSoft case ( Wayback Machine , archive.today ) that basically means …

Well, I didn't test that yet but I think HL2 and EP1 from the disc work, though.

After extracting the DVD's GCFs, it seems that there are no binaries for EP2 and Portal to begin with (episodic\bin or portal\bin), if I'm not mistaken. So they just can't work. TF2 has binaries but it doesn't start indeed. So I guess this physical copy is pretty much useless. A working EP2 physical …

The Orange Box DVD has: Source Engine.gcf (HL2): 2707 (April 6, 2006) Base Source Engine 2.gcf (EP1): 3224 (September 5, 2007) Source 2007 Binaries.gcf (EP2/Portal/TF2): 3233 (September 14, 2007) The other builds I found all have later engines: Team Fortress 2 (Version 0, Playable).zip: 3236 ( …

Hey, From information I've gathered online (and here), it appears that the versions of HL2:EP2, Portal and TF2 shipped on the PC DVD-ROMs of The Orange Box are broken. The Detonation repack is apparently a thing but from what I've gathered, it isn't made from the actual discs but is rather from a " …

Remove that battery asap and clean the area with vinegar and then look for bad traces. You may want to move out and in the keyboard controller right underneath the RAM slots too and maybe even check for bad contacts there. I gently pushed down the controller to reseat it. Unfortunately the …

My IBM PS/2 has a fuse on the keyboard connector and I blew it connecting a keyboard that had been wet. However, once that happened the LEDs wouldn't come on at all. Given that the battery corrosion is right next to the keyboard connector it wouldn't be at all surprising if some of the connections …

Hello. I have recovered an old 486 machine with a traditional 5-pin DIN connector. I originally purchased a PS/2 to DIN adapter but it turned out none of the keyboards worked. The BIOS successfully POSTs, but I get the following two warnings: Keyboard error or no keyboard present CMOS checksum error …