I was quite impressed that yesterday I installed "katahane" without any problems in wine, and also applied english patch :D
Before that, I thought, well, if it won't work, then I'll just use the vbox. In fact there is no need ;D

Screenshot of katahane running in wine 1.3.10 @ x86, openbox (click to view source):



although it seems the game user interface far from being perfect imo,...

Back in 2008, I started playing Eve Online. Its one hell of a game, some call it "spreadsheets online" because you wind up needing a spreadsheet to play. It's the worlds largest single shard game server. And back in December of '08, it had a linux client.

It was not a true stand alone client, but it was a Cedega crossover. When you installed it it installed the Cedega engine with just what you need to play. Back then the game had 2 graphics options, "classic" and...

I was just testing different versions of wine and was quite... well, no, it's hard to surprise me.
So, I'm just a gamer, willing to play half-life 1 under wine, also, some visual novels. About a month-two before this, I was trying to make crysis work under wine but failed completely, since noone ever tested directx under wine after building a release: mouse just escapes the window, no matter if you play it in windowed or fullscreen mode. Well, that's considered normal these days: no one ever...

This is what the real gaming world is...
Well, few days ago I got my radeon HD5830 card and decided to test it against linux. First of all you don't expect installation to be easy. I reinstalled gentoo base files from scratch 3 times in order to get rid of driver and make a use of opensource, kernel drivers & opengl.
To be close on topic, I successfully installed gentoo linux, xorg-server 1.7.6 and ati-drivers-10.6 (unmasked thru /etc/portage/package.keywords) on amd64(x86_64)...

A sort of a crazy idea I had few days ago.
at 25th of may I've registered unix-gaming.net, and decided to create a good half-life server. AFAIK there are two or three well-configured servers around Russia, so I thought maybe I'll alter that list :)

Gaming server is Intel Celeron 2.4, 1G ram (266 mhz) box, will run Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.34. I understand it might actually not work. Last time I used bad-configured linux platform and had lags, since Half-Life is much more active...