Maybe my idea is stupid but maybe it will work to get beta build for half life

[science_team165]

Idea: cant we ask for everyone who got beta build for e3 show just to ask to send that build or maybe ask magazines who showed footage

[trafizza]

How do we know who has access to the beta? Considering that E3 is no longer held and Half-Life 2 was shown 22 years ago, it's hard to find any information about it now.

[Nswthomasfan]

No.1 - I have tried to find Half-Life Alpha Builds myself several months ago by attempting to ask People who were credited on the game. (Mainly Former Valve or Sierra Employees) Most have yet to respond, And the few who did respond told me they did not possess any build of the Game.

No.2 - Most Magazines I have viewed from 1998 (Mainly via this Website) -  https://www.hl-inside.me/magazines/ appeared to share the same Photos between each other (e.g. Mainly the ones from 97 etc.) and even if they did have a Build, Those appeared similar to the Net Test Builds that were uploaded a few weeks ago with some minor differences.

No.2A - In regards to the E3 Build itself, The Only Magazine I'm aware of that did have access to it was Gamer's Republic. - https://www.hl-inside.me/magazines/gamers-republic/GI_1998-09_4/ But even the staff that I contacted have told me that while they did have access to the Build, Neither of them owned it.
 

A few months ago, I did start a Group dedicated to Getting Valve Interested in seeing the Support to considering either letting more Half-Life Alpha/Beta Builds become Public or at least Release Stuff (Such as Model and Map Sources) not in the SDK. - https://steamcommunity.com/groups/get_half-life_alpha_released  However I now consider it to be slightly out of Date and I may Revamp it at some point along with adding a Announcement about the Net Test Builds getting Uploaded.

But to Answer in Short: While it does sound like a Good Idea to ask People about if they have a Half-Life Build they could upload, It's not quite simple. However, Tyler McVicker posted back in September after Net Test 2 was uploaded saying that six People came forward who told him they did have Beta Builds of Half-Life, So All I can say is to simply wait and see what happens.

[science_team165]

yes my idea is stupid but we gonna probaly get leaked build

[ComDoll]

Most of the people are either
A) Being bitches about their precious beta being shared (marc & geoff say hi)
B) Afraid of Valve (brett & other valve employees for example)
C) Dont give a fuck (that one czech guy who's too lazy to check his basement)

Don't set your hopes high on Tyler too, he's more interested in making dramatic video instead of actually archiving those builds.

As for the magazines: there's enough magazines that used their own screenshots, but people are either untrackable or just wont give it, but feel free to contact anyone, maybe you'll get lucky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Theuaredead]

Most of the people are either
A) Being bitches about their precious beta being shared (marc & geoff say hi)
B) Afraid of Valve (brett & other valve employees for example)
C) Dont give a fuck (that one czech guy who's too lazy to check his basement)

Don't set your hopes high on Tyler too, he's more interested in making dramatic video instead of actually archiving those builds.

As for the magazines: there's enough magazines that used their own screenshots, but people are either untrackable or just wont give it, but feel free to contact anyone, maybe you'll get lucky ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They're all typically apart of group B.

People have contacted tons of people before, ranging from developers, playtesters, journalists, to just people who were given the game before release. Barely anything has ever come of it. It isn't something that hasn't been tried, its been attempted and yielded nothing. It is a very slim selection of people who (still) have the discs, don't care what could possibly come of releasing the contents, and even being known to have it (they gave these discs to many people, it isn't like we have a definitive list of who has these discs.) It is quite literally a needle in a haystack.