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sorry may be somebody ever asked about it. but BTW how
many percents of the quality running this game with
the ehl? thank you..

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wow, this is EXCELLENT. Thanks a ton for your work!

now if _it_ only worked..

I am using Half-life 1.1.0.4 and Cstrike 7.1

I have them in /usr/local/share/games/sierra (that's where the valve
stuff is at, cstrike directory, etc. there is no Half-life sub
directory)

I copied my wine.conf out of /usr/local/etc/wine.conf and put it in
/etc

here is what I get when starting ehl
bliss:/home/lispbliss# ehl
===============================================================================
                  3mUl@T3D h@Lf LiF3 - Emulated Half Life
Game: Valve - Original Half Life
===============================================================================

= Checking for installed components
- Parsing command line... OK
- Loading configuration file
- Found WINE
- Found WINE configuration
- Found QStat
- Found hacked XQF
- Found X Windows configuration file
- Found Half Life directory
- Half Life CD-ROM found

= Writing configuration files
- Writing WINE configuration file
- File written
- Getting resolution from Windows registry
- Starting regedit to retrieve resolution
! Please note, a window will briefly appear and disappear.
- Using new WINE command syntax
Could not stat /mnt/fd0, ignoring drive A:
Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry for current working directory /; starting in windows directory.
Invalid path 'c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator' for profile directory
/usr/local/bin/wine: cannot find 'regedit.exe'
- Got Half Life registry key
- Looking for Half Life resolution settings
! WARNING - Registry keys are nonexistent
- Using 640x480 default
- X resolution is 640 pixels
- Y resolution is 480 pixels
/bin/hlengine: gawk: command not found
- File written
- Writing WINE configuration file
- File written

= Preparing to start the game
- Turning off logo videos
/bin/hlengine: [: -l: unary operator expected
! Could not find valve AVI logos. Perhaps they are already
  disabled.
  ! This error can be safely ignored
- Turning off menu animation sounds
- Preparing ingame messages

= Starting Half Life
- Please wait...
- Booting X server on display number 50
- Root user detected. Running with privelaged switches
- Changed to game directory
- Startup in five seconds, hold on..
- OK, Booting Half Life engine through WINE
- Using new WINE command syntax
Could not stat /mnt/fd0, ignoring drive A:
Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry for current working directory /usr/local/share/games/sierra; starting in windows directory.
Invalid path 'c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator' for profile directory
/usr/local/bin/wine: cannot find 'hl.exe'
! WINE has terminated

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

= Engine shutdown
- Waiting for wineserver and child processes to terminate
- TERMinating any remaining wineservers
- Forcibly KILLing any remaining wineservers
- Killing X windows display
- Deleting any rogue socket files from crashed processes
- Removing any COREs
! Cleanup complete

= Restoring original settings
- Restoring mod logo AVIs

! Could not restore valve logo AVIs. Perhaps they have been permanatly
  removed or disabled.
  ! You can safely ignore this error.
- Restoring menu animation sounds
- Restoring script files
- Cleaning up any XQF scripts

!! Half Life engine shutdown complete

===============================================================================
Done. Hope you enjoy EHL. If it works for you, or if it didnt, please send
me an email at wi...@co.... Your feedback is greatly appreciated!
===============================================================================

- Exiting...
bliss:/home/lispbliss# 

Here is my wine.conf, not sure if I should have something about drive
X in there or not

;;
;; MS-DOS drives configuration
;;
;; Each section has the following format:
;; [Drive X]
;; Path=xxx       (Unix path for drive root)
;; Type=xxx       (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')
;; Label=xxx      (drive label, at most 11 characters)
;; Serial=xxx     (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
;; Filesystem=xxx (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
;;   This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
;;   directory structure.
;;   Recommended:
;;   - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
;;   - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)
;;   DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !
;; Device=/dev/xx (only if you want to allow raw device access)
;;
[Drive A]
Path=/mnt/fd0
Type=floppy
Label=Floppy
Serial=87654321
Device=/dev/fd0

[Drive C]
Path=/c
Type=hd
Label=MS-DOS
Filesystem=win95

[Drive D]
Path=/cdrom
Type=cdrom
Label=CD-Rom
Filesystem=win95
; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !
Device=/dev/cdrom

[Drive E]
Path=/tmp
Type=hd
Label=Tmp Drive
Filesystem=win95

#[Drive F]
#Path=${HOME}
#Type=network
#Label=Home
#Filesystem=win95

[wine]
Windows=c:\windows
System=c:\windows\system
Temp=e:\
Path=c:\windows;c:\windows\system;e:\;e:\test;f:\
Profile=c:\windows\Profiles\Administrator
GraphicsDriver=x11drv

# <wineconf>

[DllDefaults]
EXTRA_LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/wine
DefaultLoadOrder = native, builtin, elfdll, so

[DllOverrides]
kernel32, gdi32, user32	= builtin
krnl386, gdi, user	= builtin
toolhelp		= builtin
comdlg32, commdlg	= elfdll, builtin, native
version, ver		= elfdll, builtin, native
shell32, shell		= builtin, native
lz32, lzexpand		= builtin, native
commctrl, comctl32	= builtin, native
wsock32, winsock	= builtin
advapi32, crtdll, ntdll	= builtin, native
mpr, winspool.drv	= builtin, native
ddraw, dinput, dsound	= builtin, native
winmm, mmsystem         = builtin
msvideo, msvfw32        = builtin, native
mcicda.drv, mciseq.drv  = builtin, native
mciwave.drv		= builtin, native
mciavi.drv, mcianim.drv = native, builtin
msacm.drv, midimap.drv  = builtin, native
w32skrnl                = builtin
wnaspi32, wow32		= builtin
system, display, wprocs	= builtin
wineps			= builtin
icmp                    = builtin

[x11drv]
; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
AllocSystemColors = 100
; Use a private color map
PrivateColorMap = N
; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
PerfectGraphics = N
; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
;;ScreenDepth = 16
; Name of X11 display to use
;;Display = :0.0
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
Managed = N
; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
UseDGA = Y
; Use XShm extension if present
UseXShm = Y
; Enable DirectX mouse grab
DXGrab = N
; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
; (useful to play OpenGL games)
DesktopDoubleBuffered = N
; Code page used for captions in managed mode
; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)
TextCP=0

[fonts]
;Read documentation/fonts before adding aliases
Resolution = 96
Default = -adobe-times-

[serialports]
Com1=/dev/ttyS0
Com2=/dev/ttyS1
Com3=/dev/modem,38400
Com4=/dev/modem

[parallelports]
Lpt1=/dev/lp0

[spooler]
LPT1:=|lpr
LPT2:=|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -
LPT3:=/dev/lp3

[ports]
;read=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0
;write=0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0

[spy]
Exclude=WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;

[registry]
; Paths must be given in /dir/dir/file.reg format.
; Wine will not understand dos file names here...

;These are all booleans.  Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
;Defaults are read all, write to Home
; Global registries (stored in /etc)
LoadGlobalRegistryFiles=Y
; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
LoadHomeRegistryFiles=Y
; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
LoadWindowsRegistryFiles=Y
; TRY to write all changes to home registries
WritetoHomeRegistryFiles=Y
; Use new file format
UseNewFormat=Y
; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
; PeriodicSave=600
; Save only modified keys
SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys=Y

[Tweak.Layout]
;; WineLook=xxx  (supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98')
WineLook=Win95

[programs]
Default=
Startup=

[Console]
;Drivers=tty
;XtermProg=nxterm
;InitialRows=25
;InitialColumns=80
;TerminalType=nxterm

[Clipboard]
ClearAllSelections=0
PersistentSelection=1

# </wineconf>

Hopefully you'll know what's up...

btw, does EHL run very well?  I have a 366Mhz Celeron with 128mb of
ram and a voodoo2...

sincerely,
jsj

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I compiled wine with opengl,  and now halflife just crashes all the
time,  what is up?

Hey,

I wrote a while back, and you e-mailed a tar-ball with a new version of
EHL that was supposed to work with the new versions of WINE (which it did
indeed do so).  However, I recently re-did my linux box, and lost it
because I'm retarded and forgot to back it up.  If you could be so kind as
to send it again, that would be stellar.

Thanks,

Scott D. Barker

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Hi, 
 i have a little prob with EHL. My HalfLife started ok but it wants me to
change my Desktop ColorDepth to 32.... or 65... how can i fix this ..
Thx a lot
DD

You sent me a beta version of the new EHL Scripts, and they work great
with my new wine binaries, but when half-life loads (actually
counter-strike), and it asks for my cd, i put it in, hit o.k., and it
keeps bringing up the dialog to put my cd in, even though it's in.

it's on original cd, not a burned copy, i've tried with it in the drive
when running ehl, putting it in when it prompts, putting it and mounting
it before starting ehl, everything that i can think of.

any ideas?

I must say that i really do appreciate your help.  you should have seen my
eyes when I saw the counter-strike screen in linux for the first time.  I
was ecstatic!  thanks again.

~Scott

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I am about *this* close to finishing the next version
of EHL (which I have already emailed some of you.)

Problem is the notorious resolution exchange lines
have been incomplete for the past month as, due
to various problems with my setup but soon to be
resolved, I can't get WINE working properly.

I have a simple request. Could someone start up
their copy of Half Life (either in Windows or
using EHL) and send me a list of all the
game resolutions in the configuration menu.

E.g.

Main Menu -> Configuration -> Video -> Video modes

and send me a list of all possible Half Life resolutions
in software mode (the leftmost software tab at the top of the
list).

This would be greatly appreciated as I don't want
any further disappointment from late releases.

Thanks for your help

STiNG

"Scott D. Barker" wrote:
> 
> Whenever starting half-life, I get the following error:
> 
> wine: cannot find regedit.exe /E export.reg
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\half-life\settings
> 
> And hl won't start.  Any ideas?
> 
> Newest build of wine, hl 1.1.0.0, redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.15-20
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

The new versions of WINE will only work on the next (and currently beta)
0.3.0 version of EHL. I will email you a copy (which almost works) that
will solve this problem and hopefully a few others. Just a word
of warning, don't run in a res other than 640x480 or 512x384. I don't
know why anyone would want to, because there is no hardware acceleration
support in EHL and it's prescence is a bit patchy in X, but the
other resolutions aren't done quite yet.

Have fun.
STiNG

Whenever starting half-life, I get the following error:

wine: cannot find regedit.exe /E export.reg
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\half-life\settings

And hl won't start.  Any ideas?

Newest build of wine, hl 1.1.0.0, redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.15-20

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Woody Hughes wrote:
> 
> After taking a look at all of the scripts in the package, I mounted my
> 98 partition in /mnt/98. ( I didn't want to have to hack a ton of
> environment variables otherwise).
> 
> Here is the error I'm getting:
> 
> <---snip--->
> 
> ! Please wait, this may take some time...
> ./install; [: /mnt/98/sierra/Half-Life/backup: binary operator expected
> ! FATAL - Half Life not found anywhere in /mnt. Strange...
>           Perhaps the drive Half Life is on isnt mounted.
> [root@bunny /ehl]#
> 
> <---snip--->
> 
> Any ideas on the whole binary operator thing?
> 

Firstly, I'm the person who invented EHL (Pleased to meet you..)
Thanks for using the mailing list, although don't expect to
receive anything. Although I have close to 20 prople working
on this and giving me bug reports (probably many more who
tried it but couldn't be bothered emailing me) alas none of them
use the mailing list. As I am the only developer on the project,
they all just email me directly (and this is partly due to the
fact that that's what is says to do in the documentation.)

About the binary operator thing. There were some *big* problems
with the script version 0.2.2 (the one you have there) which
I have been working on for over a month. Lots of these bugs have
been fixed in version 0.3.0 (including some nasty ones,) however
until now I haven't been able to find the time to finish
and upload that version.

I'm _this_ close to finishing the next version but unfortunately
my Linux has been giving me a hard time:
1. A patched kernel moved module loading addresses. After a week
   of postings on the WINE newsgroup I found the problem leading
   to the addition of two new lines of code in the CVS!
2. My sound drivers don't work with WINE, and I'm trying to
   find out why not. I suspect the new drivers have been broken
   by one of the developers.
3. Now I get X opcode errors with the latest version of WINE
   (200000716) which is causing *much* grief as I will have to
   start yet another thread to debug this.

The only thing that is still broken is a resolution routine where
the Half Life game resolution is extracted from the Windows
registry and converted from hex to decimal. This is a partial stub
and currently only works when you set the game res to
800x600 or 512x384...

I have sent you a copy of the new (pre-release) version 0.3.0
to play with. A major feature of the new version is that it places
a config file called "ehl.conf" in the /etc directory. Here
you can specify the locations of all files EHL needs and
options as to your specific setup. This is a great as it fixes
all the "it won't run on distro xyz" errors I've been hearing.

Also, hardware acceleration is my next target if I ever get
Half Life to actually *run* again :(.
This is pretty easy though, and someone has already written
a quality HOWTO on running Half Life under WINE using an
NVidia accelerated X server (good bedtime reading.)

One of the WINE developers I have been posting to also
thinks some new patches to WINE have broken Half Life
as even he can't get it going properly anymore. Hopefully
this will be fixed soon.

I'm also looking for other non-linux (e.g. Windows only and not
ported by Loki, etc.) games to emulate. At the moment, I'm
toying with the Active Worlds 3D browser (http://www.activeworlds.com/)

Good luck with the next version, email me if you have anymore
questions.

Patrick Burns
(AKA STiNG of DEATH)

After taking a look at all of the scripts in the package, I mounted my
98 partition in /mnt/98. ( I didn't want to have to hack a ton of
environment variables otherwise).

Here is the error I'm getting:

<---snip--->

! Please wait, this may take some time...
./install; [: /mnt/98/sierra/Half-Life/backup: binary operator expected
! FATAL - Half Life not found anywhere in /mnt. Strange...
	  Perhaps the drive Half Life is on isnt mounted.
[root@bunny /ehl]#

<---snip--->

Any ideas on the whole binary operator thing?

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