Here is the results of our May poll, We had a total of 393 votes. With 43% of votes cast for (use only the stable branch) I hope the last couple release candidates improve upon where Wine is now... The reason why I say this is, Wine 0.9.58 is the pinnacle as far as Microsoft Office 2007 support goes, not to mention the other office applications and games that have seen regressions since the code freeze. :( If you have a suggestion for a future poll please send it our way.

The Wine development release 1.3.26 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Various improvements to the builtin Internet Explorer.
• Support for Get/SetDIBits in the DIB engine.
• Support for enhanced metafiles in the View tool.
• Many improvements in WinHTTP.
• A number of fixes to the COM stubless marshaller.
• Improved mechanism for DLL registrations.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Bugs fixed in 1.3.26:

The folks over at CodeWeavers have given us two new dealcodes. :) A dealcode is coupon code that can be used in their online store. The two new dealcodes are "EmulateMe" this dealcode is good for a 15% discount on CrossOver or CrossOver Games for Mac and Linux. The second dealcode is "CxForLess" and it will get you a 10% discount on any product in their store.

They also have a promotion going on for Power BibleCD users, this isn't a dealcode but a promotion. You will need to go to this page and purchase CrossOver with a 25% discount just for Power BibleCD users.

Having a Mac has it’s ups and downs, its awesome for music, business, and school. One thing Mac is definitely lacking are games. All those awesome titles like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and others are usually only on Windows and occasionally iOS, but there is always an answer and in this case it is called CrossOver. CrossOver brings all those great applications made for Windows to your Mac and even Linux. It comes in three different versions to fit your needs: CrossOver Standard, CrossOver Games, and CrossOver Professional. Here is a quick summary of how it works. It emulates windows, but there is no dealing with virtual machines or full reboots. CrossOver simulates a reboot within the application if one is needed. CrossOver beats virtualizing games on your Mac in VMware Fusion or Parallels by not having to run unnecessary processes.

It also works with Wine, which pretty much ports or brings over the important files from Windows and allows your Mac to run the applications in CrossOver. It works very well with CrossTie games, but I have found that games that are not supported by CrossTie directly have a slight amount of lag, but for gaming on a Mac, the graphics and speed are on par. However, you also need to take into account that the lag might not be from the application, but the hardware of the Mac.

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Wineskin Pro 2.0 today. Wineskin Pro 2.0 is our initial release of Wineskin for Intel based Mac computers. This release has a custom built Xquartz X11 server that Microsoft Windows Games require to run in full screen mode. We also provide binary Wine builds as well as binary CodeWeavers CrossOver builds from their public source code. Wineskin Pro also comes with Graphical tools to assist you in installing and configuring Wine as well as building your own custom Wine builds from source.

Wineskin Pro 2.0 will run on any Intel Mac computer with OS X 10.5 or higher installed. This released has also been tested on the upcoming OS X 10.7 Lion release.

The cost of Wineskin Pro 2.0 is $29.95 and comes with six months of upgrades and support.

Wineskin 2.0 RC1 is here! (made in Wineskin Winery)

The Website FAQ and Manual are also updated!

WS5 engine bases are here.  It will take awhile to build a lot more official engines... custom engines can still be built with the WS5EngineBase.

I’ll get more engines up, and manual install files up as I can.

Please report any bugs ASAP!  No new features, only bug fixes from here on out

(upgrading wrappers from beta6 to RC1 may not work correctly from the Wineskin.app Upgrade function because of missing entries in the Info.plist.  This will not happen for upgrades at RC1+)