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. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8 The results on this page look quite good but that's certainly not my experience this morning. The results posted there are not of much value in terms of knowing how user actually went about their installs so I'm unclear how to move forward with this. I know this used to work, or possibly still does, but I've not tried it on a Gentoo AMD64 system before. Wine is compiled as 32-bit. Is this is a known issue? 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. Thanks, Mark
