Hi,
I have been trying to get the original Half Life (not Half Life 2) to work in linux. I read a page that says it works in Wine, so I tried that. http://lhl.linuxgames.com/ Is the site, however, it does not look to be activly maintained anymore. Anyway, Half Life installs fine, and when I run it from Wine, it comes up and all seems to work fine, until I go to click on one of the menu items. It doesn't matter what I click on, weather its Configure, or New Game, or whatever. I click, and it makes the little ticking nose for the thing to come up, and then the screen changes like a window came up, but nothing really comes up, nothing that I can see anyway. If I click in random places on the screen, I can hear it doing stuff, but I cannot see it. If I press escape, the "window thats not there" will go down and make the other clicking noise, and I can then click on the stuff from the main screen again. Also, if I start a new game, I can hear the game going, where he's riding through the tunnel on the train thing, however, I cannot see it. Does anybody know whats wrong? Any help would be appriciated, as I really love this game and wish I could play it on linux! Also, if anybody knows of a linux native port of the half life engine that I could use to play it, that would be good too, if not even better. I'd be supprised if nobody has made one yet actually, considering they were made for Quake 2 and Doom, etc. Oh yes, I also heard that Half Life was based on the Quake 2 engine... is it possible to play Half Life inside one of the native Quake 2 engines?

Marshall

If I remember rightly you need to make an entry for the game in winecfg, then set the graphics to allow directx apps to stop mouse leaving window.

Oh, thank you so much, that worked. Well either that, or turning off the window manager dectorations and stuff, but in either case, you got me to the place where I could do that. Thanks!