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Saturday, December 30, 2017

The Wine development release 3.0 RC 4 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.0 RC 4 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
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 3.0-rc4 (total 12):

  13355  Richedit very slowly open big text files
  16505  BBC iPlayer Desktop: .desktop file confuses comments with command line
  26851  Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania demo installer fails
  33722  Stereo IMA ADPCM encoding in WINE produces loud static instead of sound
  34255  WinPolis 3.x: "Buy CDs" editbox does not automatically select all
  37336  U-blox U-Center 8.11 crashes when importing or exporting config file
  41070  "Call of Duty 4" does not start: heap issues
  41209  The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System: Error message asking for the game to be reinstalled
  43971  Wine 2.20 Bcrypt compilation fails under older linux systems while Wine 2.0.3 compiles fine
  44142  steamwebhelper.exe crashes on wine-stagining 2.21 because NtQueryInformationFile fails
  44161  Possible incorrect string message in "dlls/kernel32/tests/volume.c" line 263
  44218  Black displaying of all Wine stuffs with FreeBSD

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Friday, December 22, 2017

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.0 RC 3 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.0 RC 3 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
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 3.0-rc3 (total 24):

   9159  shell32/explorer: Add support for Progman DDE interface
  10164  Pool of Radiance 1.4 intermittently shows garbage in surfaces
  13548  Wine's setupapi does not know how to recursively delete registry keys
  14937  Astroplanner 1.6.1 crashes when closing "preferences" window (TOOLTIPS_SubclassProc must be unsubclassed during WM_NCDESTROY)
  21849  Sonic & Knuckles Collection: arrow buttons are very narrow
  28652  SlingPlayer 2 has transparent view screen while loading
  29871  drawing in photoshop cs5 is almost impossible
  33268  SlingPlayer 2.0.4 screen flickers when pointer over screen
  35562  Slingplayer 2 crashes when starting stream
  36517  SlovoEB 2.1 (.NET 4.0 app) crashes on startup (unsupported WICPixelFormat32bppGrayFloat)
  41220  Provide fallback implementation of strnlen for OS versions that don't have it in their Libc (Leopard, Snow Leopard, et al)
  42924  Regression in Warframe - Crash when Updating user information (Usually when ending a mission). Last working version Wine 1.9.17.
  43004  qedit/tests/mediadet.c intermittent crash
  43217  Wine cannot execute position-independent (PIE) host executables via CreateProcess()
  43627  regression in Age of Empires 2: ingame mostly black in recent wine version
  44163  Far Cry crashes when opening the save game menu
  44168  Wizardry 8 hangs when starting a new game or loading a saved game
  44170  MSMoney data File password no more recognized
  44173  error: use of undeclared identifier 'kCCAlgorithmAES'
  44174  implicit declaration of function 'CCCryptorCreateWithMode'
  44180  TMIDI Player: Crash on startup with a stack overflow
  44194  Serious Sam Classic (First and Second Encounter) shifts the view and makes the game unplayable
  44196  Autocad 2002 - Scrambled numbers in output
  44201  SlingPlayer 2.0 crashes on unimplemented function mf.dll.MFGetService

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WineTricks 20171222 has been released

Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.

It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also allows the installation of missing DLLs and tweaking of various Wine settings.

This version can be downloaded here.

 



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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Run Microsoft Office 2016 and Games on Linux with CodeWeavers CrossOver 17

Yup, that means the latest version of CodeWeaver‘s commercial Wine offering also supports the latest version of Microsoft’s hugely popular Office suite, including both Home and Business editions.
And that’s big news. LibreOffice and Google Docs are near-perfect replacements for most of us, but many students and business still require the use of Microsoft Office products or file formats. As great as interoperability is these days few alternatives are as fuss-free as opting to install Office on Linux using Wine.


Other Windows software and games that feature improved CrossOver 17 support:
  • Microsoft Office 2016
  • Microsoft Office 2013
  • League of Legends
  • Everquest
  • Everquest II
  • WebSite-Watcher
  • Battle.Net
CrossOver 17 also features a large update to the Wine compatibility layer, a move that brings thousands of big fixes and usability improvements to users’ desktops and the (ever growing) array of software it supports.

Buy CrossOver 17

CrossOver 17 for Linux and macOS is available to purchase right now from the CodeWeavers website.

A free trial is also available if you want to test things out before you commit.

Wait: I thought Wine was free?

Wine is free, open-source software. It’s available to install on Ubuntu (and other Linux distributions) from the repos, for absolutely nothing.

CrossOver is (in effect) a commercial version of Wine. It’s not free; you have to pay for it. But many people are happy to do this — and no, they’re not crazy!

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