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+FTEMANIFEST 1
+GAME valve
+NAME "Half-Life"
+BASEGAME platform
+BASEGAME valve
+
+// you don't really want to change these
+RTCBROKER master.frag-net.com:27950
+PROTOCOLNAME "FreeHL"
+MAINCONFIG game.cfg
+DOWNLOADSURL "http://www.frag-net.com/dl/packages"
+
+-exec platform_default.cfg