winetricks 20101008 released

Written by Tom Wickline
Friday, 08 October 2010 00:52

Dan Kegel released winetricks 20101008 today. new verbs abiword, dsound, nvidiasdk9, vd, xinput Another fortnight-and-a-half, another Winetricks. Changes since 20100917:
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Quicken can run on Macs

Written by Tom Wickline
Tuesday, 28 September 2010 01:50

Screen capture courtesy of Intuit QUICKEN 2010 is shown running under CrossOver. Both CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Linux can run the latest version of Quicken with few problems.

Intuits Quicken financial software is highly regarded and widely used by the Windows crowd. Unfortunately, Intuit botched the Mac version of Quicken by taking away some of the most important features of the Windows program.

This is a serious problem for former Windows users who switched recently to the Mac. Sales to "switchers" are a significant percentage of Mac sales, and nothing is as likely to disappoint a new Mac user than finding out your favorite program just isn't the same on your new computer.
But this doesn't have to be. Anyone using a modern Mac can run the latest version of Quicken -- the Windows version, with all its bells and whistles -- by investing $40 in software that gives Macs a way to run Windows programs.

Q4Wine 0.119 has been released

Written by Tom Wickline
Wednesday, 11 August 2010 01:28

Here it is time for new q4wine release tagged by the 0.119 version.

Changes since 0.118 are:

Written by Tom Wickline
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:09

A couple days back I was looking for a tool to create a sitemap of our sites so I could send the sitemap to Google and Yahoo to help improve our site listings and page rank. After allot of waisted time trying to create a decent sitemap with the free online SiteMap Generators. Most if not all of free online Sitemap Generators are fronts to serve ads or in the end try to sell you what they advertise as free! Most of the free online SiteMap Generators only create 500 links, and if you have a large site this is not acceptable. And if you find a Generator that does upto 5,000 links at the end of the process they then ask for a payment before they hand over the "what was suppose to be free" data.

Just when I was about to give up I came across a tool that not only does what it says but also does so much more. Sitemap Generator from WonderWebWare was just what I was looking for. Below is how to run this and other tools from WonderWebWare on Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris with Bordeaux or vanilla Wine from WineHQ.

PlayOnLinux 3.7.6 is available

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 03 May 2010 11:49

Hi everybody ! PlayOnLinux 3.7.6 is now available ! What's new ? Two major bugs fixed : - Using an old wineversion to install a program caused problems - Compatibility with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx : Install window crashed when the user clicked on Install button. We strongly recommend you to upgrade PlayOnLinux
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Has Transgaming Abandoned Cedega?

Written by Tom Wickline
Saturday, 19 December 2009 00:47

Pretty much anyone who has used Linux for at least a short while is aware of Wine technology and what it does. For many Linux users, largely Linux gamers, having properly working Wine technology is essential to their everyday computer user. The topic of commercial Wine software has been known to cause many heated discussions over the years on various Linux message boards. It appears at long last that perhaps this seemingly eternal argument may finally be coming to an end. Transgaming, the company behind Cedega, appears to be finally putting down its (some would say much controversial) Linux software.

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 07 December 2009 03:27

If you dont need a patched wine, I strongly reccomend you to use the package manager to install compiled sources.

To obtain the latest wine in this way, you first need to add the gpg key of winehq's repository:

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Then add the repository:

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -sc).list \ -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

And then wine can be installed with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

Introduction

Written by Tom Wickline
Friday, 13 November 2009 04:23

In one of my earlier postings I did a compare and contrast of the various different features Cedega and Codeweavers offer. Today I am going to try leave my opinions aside and stick strictly to the numbers. Source Engine games are some of the most popular played today so I feel it is only fitting I use them to test the Wine software we have today.

The Test: I will be running an FPS test under both the original source engine (Counter Strike: Source) and the latest version of the source engine (Left 4 Dead). For each test I used the same detail settings and tested each game at three different resolutions, using each Wine, CXGames, and Cedega.

The Hardware: While my hardware is not fastest in the world it is (as of posting this) relatively new and decently quick. Processor - Intel p9700 2.8ghz Dual Core, RAM - 4gigs of DDR3, Video Card: nVidia 260m with 1gig DDR3 dedicated memory.

The Software: Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty), 64bit. Running the nVidia 190.42 driver

The Wine Programs Used: The following test results where obtained using CXGames 8.0.0, Cedega 7.3.3, and a vanilla install of Wine 1.1.32 (all latest versions as of today).

Wine Weekly News: Issue 359

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 17 September 2009 12:46

This is the 359 issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to be the issue before the issue which talks about WineConf. It also serves to inform you of whats 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

This week, 215 posts consumed 316 K. There were 66 different contributors. 42 (63%) posted more than once. 25 (37%) posted last week too.

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:16

Access 2000 can work with Wine, but this how-to doesn't require Microsoft Access.

How to set up Wine to enable Windows programs that read and write to Jet (Access) databases using ODBC. I write such programs in C and use the API defined in

ODBC API Reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714562%28VS.85%29.aspx

They work fine on Windows and only require Mingw to be installed to compile and link them, both for console programs and those using Windows SDK. You then can write interactive programs in C which use a full-featured SQL database which comes bundled with Windows. No need to purchase Access.

With the set-up below they will also run on Linux (Kubuntu 9.04) and Wine 1.1.26.

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