Half-Life Tips

The original Half-Life CD release had disc-based DRM incorporated into
the game - at the time of this writing, this is unsupported in crossover/wine.
However, an official Half-Life Full v1.1.1.0 Update patch was released that
removes the disc based DRM and enhances some aspects of the game itself.

To apply the official update;

1. Install the game into a new bottle using the win2000 bottle profile.

2. Use your preferred search-engine and search for the string  Half-Life Full v1.1.1.0 Update

3. Download the file -- the patch is released as an exe file, however your
download may be a .zip or .rar file -- you will need to first unpack the archive
to get the .exe file. Copy the 'hl1110.exe' file to the following location (linux);

~/.cxgames/[bottle_name]/drive_c/           (where [bottle_name] is the name of the bottle you installed in step 1.)

4. Start cxsetup/cxbottlemanager => highlight the halflife bottle => Configure => Control Panel

5. Click 'Run' => Browse => navigate to the hl1110.exe copied into the bottle above => Open => Run

6. After the update has finished, exit cxsetup/cxbottlemanager  -- game will now work without CD check