AddToMe: This page is intended to hold user experiences of running Windows apps under Wine and WineX?.
http://www.frankscorner.org/wine/ is an incredible resource. Check it out for information on running all those difficult applications such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, MS Office and Nero.
http://lhl.linuxgames.com/howto/half-life-HOWTO-0.5.html is a useful guide as to how to get Half-life working with WineX? (even though it says Wine).
After installing WineX (I already had debian's Wine installed), things (such as sound and graphics) mis-behaved. I found that moving wine's registry files (/.wine/system.reg and /.wine/user.reg) out of the way and letting the new version re-create them fixed the problems, although I needed to re-initialise any apps.
I've managed to get the following games working straight out of the box with no troubles:
Others which didn't work (I don't know why):
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