CrossOver Platinum Edition is now available

Written by Tom Wickline
Wednesday, 18 May 2011 11:59

To celebrate CodeWeavers' 15th Birthday, we've rolled out our finest product ever: CrossOver Platinum Edition! CrossOver Platinum encapsulates the very best of what it means to be a part of the CodeWeavers family. It's not just software; it's a lifestyle!

Windows Compatibility, and a Hell of a Lot More!

CrossOver Platinum comes with the following components:

One copy of CrossOver Bundle!
Lifetime support from your own personal Support Ninja!
Round trip airfare from anywhere on the planet to CodeWeavers' offices!
3 nights stay at the deliciously down-scale Day's Inn, located mere blocks from CodeWeavers' Global Headquarters!
Dinner with Jeremy White, our fearless CEO, at Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge (as seen on TV). To be honest, it's more than likely that the rest of CodeWeavers will come along, too: Suzi's fruity rum drinks are to die for!
Free tickets to a Saint Paul Saints baseball game (assuming they're playing when you're here).
Autographed 8x10 photo of Jeremy White.
1 Day unpaid internship in the CodeWeavers department of your choice (if you're smart, you'll pick Marketing. They have the margarita machine).
Your very own wolf moon shirt.
Your very own (refurbished or used) Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable.
Your very own copy of “How to Avoid Huge Ships”.

Buy Now

CodeWeavers Turns 15!

Written by Tom Wickline
Wednesday, 18 May 2011 11:54

It only seems like yesterday... (sniffle)...

Yes, in May 1996, Jeremy White took the plunge and founded CodeWeavers, and then rolled out our product, CrossOver. Watch as he reminisces about that fateful day, as well as the details of the 15th Birthday Sale we're having, starting May 15, 2011.

Did We Mention We're Having a Sale?

That's right! Starting May 15, 2011, we'll be selling our CrossOver Bundle product (normally $49.95) for just $15. On the 16th, it'll be $16; on the 17th, $17; and so on for the remainder of May! So come on down and help us celebrate our 15th Birthday, and save yourself some big bucks in the process!

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 24 January 2011 19:37

new winetricks 20110123: work around bug in wine-1.3.12. new winetricks-alpha 20110123: ditto, plus new verbs cnc3_demo, guildwars, hphbp_demo, nfsshift_demo, sims3, spotify, vc2005trial.

Another week, another winetricks.

winetricks-alpha version 20110123 adds the following new verbs:

cnc3_demo: Command and Conquer 3 demo
guildwars: Guild Wars
hphbp_demo: Harry Potter Half Blood Prince demo
nfsshift_demo: Need For Speed: Shift demo
sims3: The Sims 3
spotify: the popular music service
vc2005trial: Visual C++ 2005 Trial

A Guide to Wine on Ubuntu for Beginners

Written by Tom Wickline
Tuesday, 28 December 2010 14:49

This guide is divided in four parts, so that you can jump to whichever you want using the links below:

What Is Wine?
Installing Wine in Ubuntu (Two Methods)
Starting Up and Configuring Wine
Customizing Wine

What Is Wine?

Wine is a compatibility layer which allows Windows applications to run on Linux by translating Windows system calls into native Linux calls. Wine runs successfully a variety of Windows applications and games on Linux - the official website offers an application database which organizes those depending on how well they perform under Wine, known issues and solutions, screenshots and helpful comments.

You should give Wine a try if you have some Windows-only game or application that you really need and want to be able to use Linux for it.

Installing Wine in Ubuntu (Two Methods)

I will approach two different ways of installing the latest Wine release in Ubuntu: using the Wine PPA and compiling from source.

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 18 November 2010 04:13

TransGaming, the company behind the Cedega program for running Windows games on Linux (as an alternative to using Wine or CodeWeaver's CrossOver Games) and Cider as the Mac equivalent, has just announced that Adobe is now licensing its SwiftShader Technology for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.

SwiftShader is TransGaming's pure software 3D renderer that supports features like vertex/pixel shaders, floating point rendering, and other DirectX 9.0 / OpenGL ES 2.0 level features. Adobe is hooking up with TransGaming so that developers targeting Flash and AIR can utilize 3D APIs (such as Direct3D and OpenGL) and those users that are without any 3D hardware/driver support will fall-back to SwiftShader for the software rendering in future versions of the Flash Player and AIR run-time. This is basically a proprietary CPU-based software renderer that Adobe is licensing from TransGaming.

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 18 November 2010 04:01

Internet Explorer 8 (also known as IE 8) is the latest but not quite the greatest web browser from Microsoft. It offers several enhancements over its predecessor that includes improvements in RSS, Cascading Style Sheets, and Ajax support. It also has several added features like automatic tab crash recovery, suggested sites, web slices, and accelerators (a form of selection-based search).

If you are using Linux and if for some reason you need to install and use Internet Explorer 8, don't worry because it is really quite easy to do so. Using Wine, I've shared with you how I installed and run Safari 4 on Linux. To install IE 8 on Linux, you will also need Wine.

Installing Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) on Linux:

PlayOnLinux 3.8.3 has been released

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 27 September 2010 01:20

PlayOnLinux 3.8.3 has been released, it was a silent release and no changelog has been provided by the PlayOnLinux team.

When a changlog becomes available I will post it here. In the mean time here is all the news releases since 3.8.1 shipped last month.

PlayOnLinux Installers Updated (Act II)
Worms Reloaded now on PlayOnLinux
PlayOnLinux Installers Updated
Blur is available
Spam mail
2 Ubisoft games available

Written by Tom Wickline
Friday, 25 June 2010 02:58

What exactly is CrossOver Solaris?

CrossOver for Solaris is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of todays most popular office application and games. CrossOver Office and Games for Solaris has been compiled on Solaris 10 and tested for performance and stability with many of todays most popular games such as Guild Wars, Eve Online, and Steam games like Half-Life 2 and Portal. As well as many of todays most popular Office application such as Microsoft Office 97 to 2007, Quicken, Quickbooks, Photoshop, Internet Explorer and many other not mentioned applications.

CrossOver for Solaris will also run on OpenSolaris systems, in this introduction I will be using OpenSolaris 2009.06 the last stable release of OpenSolaris.

Minimum system requirements

Solaris :

An x86 based Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris distribution
Perl 5 or greater
IJG JPEG library (libjpeg)
python >= 2.4
gtk2 >= 2.10
python-gtk2 >= 2.10
It is also recommended that you have a web browser installed.
100MB of available disk space (plus space for the Windows applications)
128MB of RAM

Currently Unsupported builds of CrossOver Solaris

Currently the only way to get CrossOver Office or Games for Solaris is to first purchase a Linux licence of CrossOver. After your purchase you can then go to "My Downloads" (Your Downloads) and then select the "Unsupported Downloads" tab and then select the CrossOver Solaris tab. At this time you can download both CrossOver Office and Games 8.0 and the new 9.0 release from CodeWeavers.

Written by Tom Wickline
Tuesday, 22 June 2010 03:49

What exactly is CrossOver FreeBSD?

CrossOver for FreeBSD is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of today's most popular office application and games. CrossOver Office and Games for FreeBSD is tested for performance and stability with many of todays most popular games such as Guild Wars, Eve Online, and Steam games like Half-Life 2 and Portal. As well as many of todays most popular Office application such as Microsoft Office 97 to 2007, Quicken, Quickbooks, Photoshop, Internet Explorer and many other not mentioned applications.

Minimum system requirements

FreeBSD :

An x86 based FreeBSD distribution based on glibc 2.3 or greater
Perl 5 or greater
IJG JPEG library (libjpeg)
python >= 2.4
gtk2 >= 2.10
python-gtk2 >= 2.10
It is also recommended that you have a web browser installed.
100MB of available disk space (plus space for the Windows applications)
128MB of RAM

Currently Unsupported builds of CrossOver FreeBSD

Currently the only way to get CrossOver Office or Games for FreeBSD is to first purchase a Linux licence of CrossOver. After your purchase you can then go to "My Downloads" (Your Downloads) and then select the "Unsupported Downloads" tab and then select the CrossOver FreeBSD tab. At this time you can download both CrossOver Office and Games 8.0 and the new 9.0 release from CodeWeavers.

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 07 June 2010 02:05

Test methods:

Get a computer with Linux installed.
Install Wine and then test it with our test programs. Finally get the test result.
Uninstall wine
Get Longene installed, test it with our test programs and then get the final test result.

Test environment:
model name: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU
E5300 @ 2.60GHz
cpu MHz: 2600.000
cache size: 2048 KB
MemTotal: 1032748 kB

MemFree: 857724 kB Buffers: 7872 kB
Cached: 116800 kB

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