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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 14 December 2009 03:42 |
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Dan Kegel announced the release of winetricks 20091213 here is the email he sent to the wine-devel mailing list.
Austin and Andrew have been hard at work keeping winetricks working smoothly.
In particular, the ie6 and gecko verbs should work again.
Thanks guys!
Changes since 20091125:
Austin English:
- Workaround wine bug for IE6
- Update shockwave sha1sum
- Add python-comtypes verb
- Explain windows licensing a bit better
- Gdiplus no longer comes from powerpoint viewer, update description accordingly
- Update DivX to latest version, remove obsolete /silent option
- Make append_path work if called more than once
- When installing gecko, regsvr32 mshtml afterward, so it actually works
- Update KDE to 0.9.6-5
- When using native mdac, also override oledb32
- Bump artk2min to 2007 Access runtime (freely redistributable, wooo!)
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 05:40 |
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From Collin Dahl Blog :
Many a day on the Ubuntu Forums, I stumble upon posts like: “Program X doesn’t work under ubuntu, I’m leaving”. As it turns out, some of these posts are for the Source games, mainly the multiplayer ones (Counter Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half Life 2: Deathmatch, Team Fortress 2). For that purpose I’m gonna make a short guide, just to show how I had luck getting the Source games to work.
First, get WINE (obviously). For best results, add the WINE PPAs. This allows you to use the latest WINE release:
- Go to System>Administration>Software Sources. You will be prompted for a password.
- Click on the “Third Party Software” tab
- Add the appropriate PPA to this list by clicking on “Add”. The PPAs are according to your Ubuntu Version. If you are not sure which version you are using, go to System>About Ubuntu, and look at the second paragraph. It should say something like “Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron”. Anyway, here are the PPAs:
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 02:37 |
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To start off, here's some info on Crossover Games
Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel, OSX Mac or Linux PC. Whatever your tastes, be they first-person shooters, fantasy, strategy, MMORPGs, or more, CrossOver Games provides the capability to run many popular games titles. CrossOver comes with an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing your games simple and fast. Once installed, your game integrates seamlessly into your Desktop. Just click and run! Best of all, you do it all easily and affordably, without needing a Microsoft operating system license.
Some notable features already in previous versions are Multi user support, Bottles (It is essentially different wineprefix for each application to ensure compatibility) and a list of supported games for quick installs.
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 00:02 |
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Last week, we asked developers to reconsider the idea of creating games for simultaneous release on both PC and Mac platforms. However, we cannot control what others do; we can only ask. So let's concede for the moment that things will continue as they are now -- very few games coming out on both systems at the same time, and Mac getting ports of popular PC games much later than their original release. What's an avid Mac gamer to do?
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Monday, 07 December 2009 13:19 |
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Congratulations to the winner of the CodeWeavers Gaming Rig: Mark Scarton of Park City, UT! Mark will be receiving this sweet machine in time for Christmas (UPS willing).
Mark is the owner of Park City Software, LLC he is also a Computer Software Consultant.
Videos of the Ultimate Linux PC
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Monday, 07 December 2009 03:27 |
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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
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Written by Tom Wickline
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Saturday, 05 December 2009 11:35 |
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| Wine Technology advances at a rapid rate, in the last month we have seen two updates to Wine (1.1.33 & 1.1.34). Many of us like to stay using the latest and greatest Wine software - with good reason each new version typically fixes issues and improves performance - however on occasion a new Wine release will suffer from some regressions that cause some applications to stop working properly. The solution to this? Quite simple: revert your Wine install back to the previous version so your application can still work properly for you.
This is fantastic if you are only using Wine to run a single program - however in the case you are running two or more programs under Wine it is not unheard of for each of the different programs you are running to perform better under different Wine versions (or with different patches). The solution to this issue is simple: install multiple versions of Wine on the same system and run each program with the version that it behaves best under.
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Friday, 04 December 2009 15:18 |
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The Wine development release 1.1.34 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Many fixes for crypto certificates support.
- A lot of MSHTML improvements.
- Various fixes to support the Left 4 Dead 2 DRM.
- A number of OLE marshalling fixes.
- More Listview improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
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 1.1.34:
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 03:45 |
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In my last post, I put $30 towards Heroes of Newerth in August. That left me with $20, and $20 for September, October, November, and now December. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to play any games (aside from some stolen HoN time) and I was looking for a new game. I’m a sucker for zombie movies, and I had paid quite a bit of attention to Left 4 Dead, but had always held off because the game was distributed through Valve’s Steam, a DRM-encumbered platform.
Then, in October, Codeweavers announced they were going to support Left 4 Dead 2 in their next release. I hemmed, I hawed, and I folded, on the rationale that supporting Codeweavers was good enough to qualify this purchase for the Twenty Bucks program. (For those who don’t know, Codeweavers is pretty much the commercial side of Wine, employing most of the key programmers.) I bought CrossOver Games, installed Steam, and bought the combo pack of L4D and L4D2. Then I anxiously awaited the demo and the CrossOver Games release that would support L4D2. When it arrived, the demo ran almost perfectly in regular Wine, after some initial installation issues. I played a bit with my son and was living the good life.
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