(Revemu works all the way down to Half-Life 2 1.0 Build 2187) (Builds v5135 and higher are DRM free) To extract the working products you need to use Phoenix and then use revemu to run the games without steam. You can download the detonation release but the builds are older than what is on the DVD.
One for the DRM, two because Episode 2, Portal and TF2 are broken on the DVD. The problem is you have a broken product twice over.
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I got the 2005 dvd version of HL2 and never worked because you need install the steam client ( the older green one during the setup).
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