Written by Tom Wickline
Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:29

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.6 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.6 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs and includes many new features. With this release we have bundled Wine 1.2, Updated to the latest winetricks release, Updated to the latest DIB Engine patch, Added support for IrfanView 4.27, Install the IrfanView Plug ins during the IrfanView Install, Improved Internet Explorer 7 support, Added Support for FireFox 3.6.3 and multimedia plug ins, Added Support for VLC 1.1.0, Added Support for Google SketchUp 7.1 (NVIDIA Video Card Recommended), Added many fixes for Steam, More fixes to the Bordeaux UI and Cellar Manager. And our most exciting new feature is, we have added in Pulse Audio Support.

Bordeaux 2.0.6 was built on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, so you will need to have GLIBC 2.11 or higher before Bordeaux will work properly.

We bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.2, Cabextract, DIB Engine, Pulse Audio, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.6 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee. For a limited time Bordeaux will be on Sale for only $10.00, If your interested in any of the features or supported applications Bordeaux 2.0.6 has "This is the time purchase Bordeaux" while its on sale at 50% off.

Written by Tom Wickline
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 00:55

July 16th, 2010 marks the next release in the "stable" line of Wine releases. Periodic "stable" releases of Wine are important because they are heavily tested to ensure that no regressions have occurred (meaning software that was working, will continue to work) between versions. It has been over two years since we saw Wine 1.0 stable released (which feels like a life time in Linux years - I mean comon thats a whole Ubuntu LTS release ago). This new release brings with it over 3,000 various bug fixes, as well as added support for 64bit applications. For a complete change log check here.

New stable releases of Wine are so important that my two favorite commerical Wine products, Bordeaux and Crossover, have both jumped right in Wine 1.2s new stably goodness with soon to be release product updates.

In addition to all the improvements Wine 1.2 brings to the table Crossovers 9.1 release also includes fixes that allow Star Trek Bridge Commander and Modern Warfare 2 to function properly again. Their change log also notes "Made several application profile tune-ups" so hopefully your favorite games will perform a bit better under this Crossover release than they did with older versions.

Written by Tom Wickline
Monday, 19 July 2010 23:06

From Jeremy Whites blog :

Last Friday the Wine Project shipped Wine 1.2. This was the work of 328 people in over 23,000 separate patches over a span of two years.

CodeWeavers is proud to be a major part of that effort and were thrilled to see Wine reach this milestone. This represents a major step forward for Wine you can see the full list of accomplishments in the announcement. My personal favorite is the spiffy new icons.

The CrossOver products already contain most of those changes, as we roll our work on Wine into CrossOver as we go. However, we are hard at work on CrossOver 9.1 and CrossOver Games 9.1, which will contain all of Wine 1.2.

By way of celebrating, were making beta versions of CrossOver 9.1 and CrossOver Games 9.1 available to all current customers. If you are a current customer, you can download the beta from your account.

Wine 1.2 Released

Written by Tom Wickline
Friday, 16 July 2010 11:16

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.2 is now available.

This release represents two years of development effort and over 23,000 changes. The main highlights are the support for 64-bit applications, and the new graphics based on the Tango standard.

It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, and over 3,000 bug fixes. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Whats new in Wine 1.2

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 15 July 2010 03:40

CodeWeavers and Wine-Reviews have put together a special dealcode just for gamers and especially Transgamers. So if your a current or ex Transgaming Cedega customer and you would like to take the leap and switch over to CrossOver Games now is the perfect time to do so. With this special dealcode "ComeToTheLight" you will receive a instant 25% discount off the normal retail price of CrossOver Games or CrossOver Professional.

Thats right, this dealcode will drop the price of CrossOver Games down to only $29.96 And Crossover Professional down to only $52.46, CrossOver Professional comes bundled with a full copy of CX Games by the way.

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Google SketchUp in Linux with Wine

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 15 July 2010 01:04

Google SketchUp is one of my favorite applications. Its a free 3D software that I use to create my fabulous 3D models. It works well and lets my imagination and fingers do their magic. Its an excellent therapy for mind and soul. Theres only one problem, so to speak. It has been designed to work on Windows and Mac only, with no Linux version in the offing.

All in all, its not a tragedy, since I believe in using any software and/or operating system that meets the requirements. If you need to draw a bit, you power Windows and do what needs to be done. But some people may not have the privilege to make the cross-platform choice. For them, Google SketchUp is on the wish-list. Or is it?

Winamp for Mac OS X

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:47

Well since Nullsoft does not provide any support for other then Microsoft Windows OS it could be tricky somehow to get it running on another OS like Mac OS X or even another *nix system…but it is not impossible. The thing you need is Wine to get it running on your *nix system or if you own a Mac like me you can use your copy of Crossover as well. I must say the last option will work the best if you want to use this kind of app….

This time we are going to use Crossover Mac 9.0.1 Standard/Professional in order to run Winamp 5.57 on Mac OS 10.6.4. In advance I must say that this version of Crossover does not support Winamp by default and neither does any previous versions of it. But you might ask…is it possible anyway…? I must say yes…! To my surprise the installation went smooth without any bugs and after the installation the program does work very well or at least for everyday use. Although I have came into the problem when you drag the window around it may feel kinda laggy when doing so. But otherwise it works well for most of your tasks with Winamp.

Written by Tom Wickline
Thursday, 15 July 2010 00:39

Thanks to Cider, Mac users can run windows applications and games without running a virtual OS. Now that I think about it… Im not sure if this COD4 was actually made for mac or if it was a port running through cider. This works for many other things as well. Codeweavers CrossOver also does the same type of thing using wine instead of cider. Somewhere on their site they have a compatibility list. I successfully use CrossOver to run Steam games like DOD:S and other stuff. With virtualization through Parallels or VMWare Fusion, you still need a copy of the windows OS. With wine, you dont. Long Live Mac! The ONLY reason I ever used windows was because I wanted to play games.

Written by Tom Wickline
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 03:51

Francois Gouget the coordinator of this years WineConf sent a e-mail to the wine-devel mailing list informing everyone of the date and location of WineConf 2010. Below is a copy of Francois e-mail with relevant information on WineConf 2010.
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CodeWeavers gives away $2 million in free products

Written by Tom Wickline
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 04:32

CODEWEAVERS GIVES $2 MILLION IN FREE PRODUCT TO FRENCH AS CONSOLATION FOR DISMAL FIFA WORLD CUP PERFORMANCE
"Operation Consolation" Causes CodeWeavers CFO to Choke on a Croissant

SAINT PAUL, Minn. (July 12, 2010) More than 28,000 heartbroken French residents awash in a sea of sorrow at their performance at the 2010 FIFA World Cup downloaded free copies of CodeWeavers software July 6 as part of "Operation Consolation."

Based in Saint Paul, Minn., benevolent gadfly CodeWeavers, Inc. develops software enabling users to run Windows Applications on Mac and Linux without a Windows operating system.

In an effort to boost its popularity in Europe and in gawking awe of Frances bizarre and unexpected meltdown at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in which they shocked the world by being kicked out in the first round, CodeWeavers created "Operation Consolation," which allowed all French residents to download a free, one year license to their software from midnight to midnight July 6.

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