[Wine] Any experience with old Half Life CDs?

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:
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>  On Friday 28 March 2008 12:05:49 pm Mark Knecht wrote:
>  > I'm wondering if anyone has any experience loading Half Life using old
>  > HL CDs instead of Steam. I have two old CDs - one form 1998 and one
>  > from 2000. I tried installing from the 2000 CD and it installed OK but
>  > when I tried to do the update from within the game it complained about
>  > lack of Internet access. When I start the game I get a black screen
>  > before the menu, and when I choose the New Game menu item the game
>  > goes nowhere. The mouse still works but only killing X gets me back in
>  > control.
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>  I had problems with the CD version, myself.  The problems changed with
>  different versions of wine; at that point, having never played the game
>  before and having received it as a parting gift when a job contract ran out,
>  I really hadn't given it a whole lot of effort, either.  (After I played it,
>  oooh, yeah, a great deal of my tube time was spent wandering the Black Mesa
>  Research Facility.)
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>  > I may or may not follow up on this. I have a Steam account so I'll
>  > shift to that version soon as it has all the updates and is probably
>  > more recently tested.
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>  When I discovered I could import my CD keys to Steam, and that Steam worked
>  according to the appdb, I decided to give that route the college try.  Sure
>  enough, installing Steam using the appdb's HOWTO for it, and installing Half
>  Life worked.  I can't recall running into problems once I started playing it.
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>  Paul Johnson

Thanks Paul. I suspect that my CD is just old and messing around with
filing bug reports on this one won't be worth anyone's efforts. I'll
switch to Steam when my son gets home and gives me the password. Seems
only fair since I gave him the subscription! ;-)

Cheers,
Mark