Written by Tom Wickline

Tuesday, 08 February 2011 19:44

Wineskin 2.0 has been released!

Wineskin 2.0 wrappers are made from Wineskin Winery, which is also being released in a 1.0 form today!

Download Wineskin Winery, and it will handle downloading updates, engines, and even let you use Wine source to make custom engines, as well as creating Wineskin 2.0 wrappers!

What is new in Wineskin 2.0? Way too much to write here. Wineskin 2.0 is a total re-write from the 1.x branch. Every piece of code has been re-written... no more bash and Applescript, its all ObjC/Cocoa and C++. It is still LGPL Open Source licensed.

Source will be available at the Sourceforge.net project page

Wineskin is shaping up to the the ultimate in customizability, you aren’t stuck with a single Wine version per build, you can even build your own from source easily! Its a great way for anyone to turn a Windows app into a Mac App! Easy to use GUI tools, and real fullscreen gaming with the new WS7 engines that have a custom XQuartz X11 windowing system.

A full manual for use and describing all features is at http://wineskin.doh123.com/Manual.html

To download everything you need to get started... just download Wineskin Winery!

http://wineskin.doh123.com/Latest_Update.html

-doh123

What is Wineskin?

While Wineskin is used mainly for gaming, it is capable of running non-gaming programs as well.

Wineskin is a tool used to make wrappers to run Windows software on Mac OS X. The wrappers are in the form of a normal Mac Application, which can be double clicked and ran just like its native. They can also be used to make a distributable “port” of software. You do not need the Windows program’s source code, you can attempt to port any program you want. Best of all, its free!

Make wrappers for specific programs to share with others, make ports of your own open source, free, or commercial software, or just make a port for yourself! Why install and use Windows if you don’t need to?