it's not dead, but buggy as hell. and yeah a huge update or some kind of alternatives needed.
for example if you log on to an HLDS server and switch to another application the console will not receive any commands till you restart HLSW.
it cannot handle rcon password if it's contains some UTF-8 characters. so you can't log in.
if you move some borders the application crashes.
sometimes it cannot download some logs or check maplist, banlist, etc.
and tons of similar little bugs. yea, it works if you can buy another display for it and just let it run without any touch.
btw the only alternative what i know is
Obozrenie. but it have only Linux support which is sounds cool but the Python dependencies are more difficult than the installation guide says. it says it supports Ubuntu 15.04 and 15.10 but on my 15.04 it always failed cause some dependencies no matter how much Python packages/modules installed.
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