Not sure. I think some people have got half life to work.
It sounds like the program is getting stuck in a loop trying to allocate GDI resources, which are presumably limited. I don't know if Wine simulates the Win9x resource limitations or not (i hope not!). Try doing a relay trace and looking at what happens just before it starts to die.
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 22:29, Scott Jackson wrote:
halflife majorly crashes on me: err:local:LOCAL_GetBlock not enough space in GDI heap 01ff for 112 bytes for thousands of lines, until it eventually pukes and wants to debug. then it tells me: Couldn't start process '148738992 0x84 ' (twice) Why? I don't know. I remember installing it under wine, but it always puked on me like that afterwards. I have 128MB of RAM so that shouldn't be a problem.