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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 11 August 2008 10:45 |
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gOS 3 Gadgets BETA instantly launches Google Gadgets for Linux on startup, introducing over 100,000 possible iGoogle and Google Gadgets to the desktop.
Google Documents, Calendar, and Mail launch in Mozilla Prism windows to closer resemble desktop applications. The newest release of WINE 1.0 is included to now support thousands of Windows software for our advanced users. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on the solid Linux distribution base of Ubuntu 8.04.1.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 06 August 2008 04:49 |
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This is the 350 issue of the Wine Weekly News publication. Its main goal is to put an end to the mystery of the great accept ex bug! It also serves to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org
Issue: 350
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Friday, 01 August 2008 07:55 |
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Huw Davies today sent a update on the status of the DIB Engine that he's working on for Wine.
What is a DIB Engine?
This is from the Wine wiki:
DIBEngine
Wine requires a DIB engine (part of the display subsystem that, when pointed at screen memory, can serve as a flat-frame-buffer display driver) to properly handle Device Independent Bitmaps (DIB). In the Win32 API, an application can draw in a DIB via GDI calls or via direct memory access without any synchronization calls in between.
This implies a rather tight coupling of the graphics subsystem with the system memory, which is simply not present in a network transparent design such as X. This is a leftover of the Win16 API, I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time.
To emulate such behavior, we have to play memory tricks (by protecting the DIB memory) and switch between a 'GDI mode' and 'memory mode'. On each of these transitions, we have to copy the DIB to/from the X server. It works, but it is slow, especially over the network.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 23:20 |
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News From POL site
Age of Wonders & Baldur's Gate (Edition 5 CDs) compatible with version 3 of POL
The improving of scripts for better compatibility with version 3 of POL continues. Today the lucky ones are Age Of Wonders and Baldur' S Gate (5 CDs).
In connection with Age of Wonders: I am not any more in possession of a CD, I could not test the script in his entirety, I based the script on my version already installed. It is normally functional but if you to notice any bugs, or have and problems please contact me as fast as possible.
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Written by Nick Koch
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Monday, 28 July 2008 04:41 |
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Bordeaux 1.4 was released today and its a significant upgrade over the prior 1.2 release, version 1.4 comes with support for Microsoft Office 2003, Visio 2003 and Project 2003. Version 1.4 has improved Office 2000 menu support and Cellar support fixes. There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the backend to improve the speed and reliablity of all the supported applications and games.
The cost of Bordeaux 1.4 is $20.00. Anyone who bought 1.0 or 1.2 can upgrade to this release for free. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.
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Written by Nick Koch
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Monday, 28 July 2008 04:32 |
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THE BORDEAUX GROUP LAUNCHES BORDEAUX FOR LINUX 1.4 ADDS SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 BASED APPLICATIONS
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The Bordeaux Group announces the release of Bordeaux for Linux 1.4 with support for Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office Visio 2003, Microsoft Office Project 2003 and other major improvements over Bordeaux 1.2 and WINE 1.0
Greenville, SC (July 28th, 2008) Bordeaux Group, Inc. a leading Free Software developer, today unveiled Bordeaux for Linux 1.4, the next version of the company's software enabling Linux users to run Windows applications such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop and others. Priced at $20, the software is a low cost add-on to the Free Software package known as Wine. Wine enables Linux users to run many Windows applications on non-windows systems, but until now, a low cost easy to configure version was not available. This new version adds support for Office 2003 based applications as well as offers many improvements over the prior 1.2 release.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 28 July 2008 01:55 |
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From CodeWeavers Announce:
I am happy to announce that we have now released version 7.1.0 of CrossOver Games, for both the Mac and for Linux.
This new version is largely an incremental improvement; it fixes a range of bugs in a number of games. It also includes a full merge with the Wine 1.0 code base, so this is now a 'post Wine 1.0' version of CrossOver Games.
A full change log is included, below.
If you are an existing CrossOver customer with an active support entitlement, you can visit our web site to download this latest version: Also I want to remind folks that with CrossOver Games, we're really trying do much more rapid releases. So, although we've tested this carefully and feel pretty good about it, if you have a working configuration, you might just want to skip this one. Or at the very least, archive your bottles before you upgrade.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 05:50 |
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The Wine development release 1.1.2 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Control panel improvements and new appwiz panel.
- Restructurations of state handling in Direct3D.
- Support for timer queue functions.
- Many MSXML improvements.
- Several fixes to Solaris support.
- 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.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 01:43 |
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Dan Kegel released winetricks 20080720 with the following changes.
- ogg filters/codecs: flac, theora, speex, vorbis, schroedinger
- divx codec update
- fix made to winetrickstmp
- ffdshow updated to beta 5
- fix made to firefox3
If you use the codecs that winetricks supports this is a important update as there has been many useful fixes and updates to this area.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 07:55 |
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This is a news update from Codeweavers site about a defect in CX Games for Mac.
It has come to our attention that the CDs supplied with the retail version of CrossOver Games in BestBuy are defective. Customers attempting to install and run CrossOver Games will receive an error message when they try to install Windows software under the product. We apologize for this problem, and will do everything possible to make our customers whole. Fortunately, there is a simple workaround to rectify this error. Please follow these instructions...
The problem
The retail CD version of CrossOver Games sold at BestBuy contains a defective file. CXGames will install fine. However, when the user attempts to install Windows software under CrossOver, or create a bottle (a self-contained virtual Windows environment), the program will return an error message of "Bottle creation failed..." followed by a long, arcane error condition dump (see this screen capture below). This precludes the program's operation, since Windows software cannot be installed. ```Please note``` that this problem only exists on the CD contained in the retail version of CrossOver Games. The CD in the retail version of CrossOver Mac is not defective.
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