Topic: Half-life Under Debian? (Read 86 times)

total_ass · « **on:** January 22, 2005, 05:34:00 AM »

Yes i have searched this forum and found several topics on getting half-life running in linux. however these all point to gentoox. being the linux dumbass that i am i cannot work out how to do this in xebian. btw i don't have internet access on my xbox, the most i can do is connect my xbox to my pc and ftp without a screen.

i have my orignal half-life disc. i know that i have to install wine, but even that i am unsure of how i would go about doing this. if someone could please point me in the right direction, or even contact me more directly on msn i would really appreciate it.

(btw if i can get this working i can just do the same with the other half-life's like blue-shift and opposing forced etc?)

onlinebacon · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2005, 07:29:00 AM »

http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto.shtml

look at this, not sure if it runs well but its a start

bacon

total_ass · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2005, 10:13:00 AM »

bacon!

thanks, i have looked at that, but it seems to be focusing on using OpenGL, which the xbox doesn't do.

anyone else have any info?

This post has been edited by total_ass: Jan 22 2005, 06:13 PM

total_ass · « **Reply #3 on:** January 23, 2005, 09:15:00 AM »

close enough to 24 hours.

bump.

mikejf · « **Reply #4 on:** January 23, 2005, 09:39:00 AM »

Does Debian have 3D accel drivers yet?
Don't think the FPS will be any good without them.

total_ass · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2005, 11:51:00 AM »

i don't think any linux distributions have 3d drivers yet. but people have claimed to have got half-life running at 30fps-ish under gentoox in software mode. that would be good enough for me as i used to run it on a crappy p120 at like 5 fps per second

XteticX · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2005, 03:30:00 PM »

www.winehq.org

I got it running on xebian from source. Its easy to install but to tell the truth, I try to avoid using it. Its but ugly and 3/4 of the progs I've tried didn't work. Then again, I haven't read the setting up wine section.lol

chadkeck · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2005, 04:14:00 PM »

There is the free version of WINE. There's also WineX which is made for gaming. The latest release is called Cedega and will cost something like $10 to download and use.

WineX will run HL better than WINE. There's also a few front-ends to WineX if you like that, but I forget what they're called.

total_ass · « **Reply #8 on:** January 24, 2005, 10:02:00 AM »

thanks for the info, i'll look into winex.

desertboy · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2005, 03:02:00 PM »

QUOTE(total_ass @ Jan 24 2005, 07:27 PM)

thanks for the info, i'll look into winex.

Cadega is the new name and I doubt it will run better, it's geared to 3d accleration

check the tut's thread I bumped it has a guide on installling half life on gentoox a lot of the info will be interchangeable.

total_ass · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2005, 03:03:00 PM »

thanks.

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