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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Microsoft Office 2013 and World of Tanks Support to Arrive in Wine and CrossOver

CodeWeavers, the company behind projects like CrossOver and Wine, has announced that it's making great progress with Microsoft Office 2013 and World of Tanks, among other things.

Wine is a powerful tool, but developers need to constantly work on it, as Windows apps and environment are always changing and evolving. Something that runs today in Wine or CrossOver might now work tomorrow. Another difficult task is to make certain apps run in the first place, like Microsoft Office 2013, for instance. If you ever install Microsoft Office 2013 in Windows, you'll notice that it comes with a myriad of DLL and various other important dependencies, so you can always imagine what a difficult task it is to make it work in Linux.

Another point of interest is World of Tanks, which happens to be one of the most played MMO titles right now. The fact that Linux users have a hard time playing it is not a good thing, and CodeWeavers knows this all too well. They are working right now to correct that problem, and they've already made some progress in this regard, especially for the latest World of Tanks 9.9 update, which seems to create some issues.

CodeWeavers is not sitting idle


The developers from CodeWeavers are planning to make some improvements in the upcoming CrossOver and Wine versions, and that includes all the fixes mentioned above.

"With World of Tanks we began by triaging a crash that started with the 9.9 update. We fixed the issue quickly and sent a new build to Wargaming. We followed this with a fix for a severe drop in frame-rates with the 9.9 update. A fix for the frame rate issue and a mouse offset issue is on its way to Wargaming now. For CrossOver 14, we tested fixes with Microsoft Office 2010's behavior on dual screen systems. This includes full-screen maximize/minimize the behavior of primary and secondary screens on Gnome Classic and Gnome Shell with Metacity and Debian 7," wrote Caron Wills from CodeWeavers.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Darkstone in Linux with PlayOnLinux

Follow my step by step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Darkstone in Linux with PlayOnLinux .

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Darkstone. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next

Full Article by BOOMAN Brian Mccracken

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Установка и запуск игры World Of Tanks Linux

World Of Tanks

Скачать последнюю рабочую версию данного порта можно по ссылке: PortWoT-0910-05
 
Установка и запуск игры:
 
— Скачать скрипт установки в Домашнюю директорию (или любую другую)
— Открыть терминал и ввести:
sudo apt-get install zenity (Проверяем установлен ли zenity — это графическое окружение установщика)
cd ~/     (переходим в директорию с загруженным скриптом)
sh PortWoT-0910-05                        (создаются ярлыки, прописывается реестр порта, копируются необходимые файлы)
sudo apt-get install wine   (устанавливаем системный WINE — он автоматом тянет зависимости необходимые для порта)
— Запускаем лаунчер в меню -> игры: WoTLauncherSD или WoTLauncherHD (Разрядность ОС не важна!)
— Закрываем лаунчер и запускаем: WorldOfTanks
Так же, если есть уже скачанный клиент WoT , его можно закинуть в ~/PortWoT/World_Of_Tanks/ (тут хранится самый обычный клиент WoT )
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Просмотр реплеев:
 
— Щелкаем по реплею и выбираем приложения для открытия WorldOfTanks — не забываем ставить галочку на использование данного приложения по умолчанию.
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Запуск в отдельной X-сессии:
 
— Запускаем терминал и вводим:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure x11-common (выбераем: «КТО УГОДНО»)
sudo gpasswd -a $USER audio
— Перезагружаем ПК
— Запускаем игру (Выбираем отдельный X-сервер)

PortWoT-0910-05
 
Владелец: tergoev-m
Размер: 70,6 МБ
Изменён: 07.10.2015 20:38
Скачан: 248 раз
Cсылка просмотрена: 411 раз
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Выпуск Wine 1.7.55

Доступен очередной экспериментальный выпуск открытой реализации Win32 API - Wine 1.7.55. С момента выпуска версии 1.7.54 было закрыто 76 отчётов об ошибках.
Наиболее важные изменения:
  • Добавлен драйвер для звукового сервера PulseAudio;
  • Внесена порция исправлений, решающих проблемы с поддержкой Microsoft Office 2013;
  • Расширена реализация Web Services DLL;
  • Дополнительные правки для свежей версии C runtime;
  • Улучшение генерации сборочных файлов (Makefile);
  • Закрыты отчёты об ошибках, связанные с работой игр и приложений: Adobe Premiere 6, Cubis Gold 2, ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5, PowerDVD 10, MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.4, BBC iPlayer, FarManager v3, Sacred 2 Gold, Picasa 3.9, Black Mirror 3, FreshDiagnose 8.67, Sades 7.1, Emerge Desktop 6.1.3.
А если вы используете этот скидочный код ( TOM23 ) вы можете сэкономить дополнительные 20% от $20.95 цене.

New mobile wineskin website and forums coming soon

New mobile wineskin winery website and forums coming soon.

I'm planning on revamping this website. The current plan is I'll make pretty much the entire website from scratch, as it's really all static data besides news updates, so it's not too difficult. The plan is to make it responsive so it'll look and work right on anything from phones to desktops.

The issue comes down to... I don't want to try to make a Forum from scratch. I'd like to find one I can integrate in easy and will work good, including a responsive design.

I'd like input if anyone has anything I should look at that would be easy enough to use and would work good for the website here.

What we need i can think of...
  • Open Source
  • Easy to modify the looks/appearance
  • Responsive design
  • Can allow moderated anonymous posts like now
  • Allows users to also make accounts, so trusted users don't have to go through moderation.
  • easy to search and find posts for users looking for answers to questions
  • Will last and be well supported for years to come

Anything else anyone can think of? I haven't messed with Forum software much in years, but anything has to be better than this one... going to dump all of Tiki software.

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