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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Lutris 0.4.20 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Fix detection of winetricks path
  • Improve visual feedback on wine download dialog
  • Add skill and command-line arguments for Zdoom
  • Add option to disable joypad auto-configuration
  • Restore refresh rate on monitor reset

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Sunday, September 16, 2018

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.16 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.16 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

What's new in this release:
  • Initial implementation of OPC Services.
  • Support for rendering buttons from an ImageList.
  • Better support for CSS properties in MSHTML.
  • Namespace fixes in XML Writer.
  • 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 3.16 (total 43):

  19801  cygwin can't run a batch file from inside a shell script without explicit cmd /c
  22255  Total Commander: Deleting the 1st or 2nd character in an edit box deletes all of them
  22440  Total Commander: The panels showing Brief are not resized vertically when the application window is resized vertically
  24623  Windows Live Essentials 2011 installer doesn't show any options on the first screen (support for BCM_GETIDEALSIZE needed, ideal width and height for a specified button)
  30856  Atmel Studio 6 fails to start with Visual Studio 2010 Isolated Shell, reporting 'Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application.'
  36142  Symantec Norton 360 installer fails ('rpcss' needs to be a proper Windows service)
  37175  Call of Duty 2: Video playback is not working
  38339  Can't change resolution in Call of Duty 4
  38432  Xeon 1.0 (Xbox emulator) fails to load (PE image prelinked into DOS reserved area and default process heap range, no relocation possible)
  40062  Media Player Classic Home Cinema does not show bitmaps in buttons, needs BCM_SETIMAGELIST
  40064  Atmel Studio 7: 'DDAConfigCA' tool (part of Visual Studio 2015 Isolated Shell) crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.d._configure_wide_argv
  40445  WinSCP main window lacks icons (unimplemented BCM_SETIMAGELIST?) and indentation for hosts
  40598  Warframe 'launcher.exe' reports 'update failed' ('InternetCrackUrlW' must resize buffer when URL canonicalization fails due to insufficient buffer)
  40704  foobar2000 v1.3.10 crashes on alt-F (file menu shortcut)
  42577  Far manager: needs virtdisk.dll.GetStorageDependencyInformation
  42710  Wechat can not send file to friend
  42880  Ragnarok Online doe not clear the loading screen.
  43488  Bluestacks crashes in ITextService::TxGetVScroll()
  45246  Free Manga Downloader(all): no text on some boxes.
  45372  Resident Evil 7 requires mfplat.dll.MFCreateMFByteStreamOnStream to be implemented
  45430  Improve diagnostics of 'D3DxxCreateDevice' failures for warp driver type (D3D10_DRIVER_TYPE_WARP or D3D_DRIVER_TYPE_WARP)
  45617  Just Dance 2017: Unimplemented function mfplat.dll.MFCreateSample
  45622  Overwatch crashes when trying to save highlights (needs mfplat.MFTRegisterLocal implementation)
  45715  Just Dance 2017: Unimplemented function mfplat.dll.MFCreateMemoryBuffer
  45722  cmd for loop doesn't work with tokens and delims
  45727  Quik 7: Regression with button bitmaps after 3.6 release - No any bitmap on the buttons in a messages window
  45729  cmd's REM evaluates |
  45731  cmd for loops sensitive to whitespace
  45735  Neo Manager (formerly known as Alphasmart Manager) not installed, cannot read out via USB
  45738  Unable to compile on macOS after "winhttp: Use winsock sockets"
  45743  Firefox 61.x crashes on startup due to missing pipe server object type information (Chromium Windows sandbox handle duplication service)
  45747  GPU-GPU depth stencil blit is slow (FF XIV)
  45753  Office 2010 reruns setup on starting any app
  45770  WMP9 crashes with unimplemented function pidgen.dll.PIDGenSimpW
  45771  Parts of page(s) content missing when printing (seen in Framemaker 8)
  45784  Bethesda Launcher Updater crashes on unimplemented function msvcp110.xtime_get
  45785  Bethesda Launcher Updater crashes on unimplemented function msvcp110._Xtime_diff_to_millis2
  45786  GTA downgrader (.NET program latest.exe) crashes: "Can't find matching timezone information" ("America/Sao_Paulo")
  45788  Mouse pointer is off from the visible cursor by huge margin in steam, when winecfg DPI is different from Xorg
  45798  NVIDIA GeForce Experience 3.x installer fails due to missing support for 'WinHttpSetOption( ..., WINHTTP_OPTION_RECEIVE_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT, ...)'
  45800  Symantec Eraser Control Driver 'eeCtrl64.sys' (Norton 360) crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ExReleaseResourceLite
  45802  ReactOS logoff procedure needs 'mpr.WNetClearConnections' to disconnect user session network share connections
  45821  Metasploit Console won't start due to missing registry value HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath

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Pterm for Mac 9.1.0 has been released with macOS Mojave support

WinOnMacs released Pterm for Mac 9.1.0 for MacOS today. Pterm 9.1.0 is a major release,  we now have full 64bit support for macOS High Sierra and macOS Mojave. Please see the full change-log below for all the changes in this release.

Pterm provides an SSH, Telnet, and raw TCP client for your Mac computer! It is based on the popular desktop client 'PuTTY'.





About Wine Reviews:

There is a multitude of software developed only for the Windows operating system and even when software vendors port their applications to another platform, generally it lacks features that the Windows version contains. The only solution these developers face is to have access to both systems for testing which leads to increased infrastructure demands, and wasted project resources. Our goal is to have native ports of essential Windows tools and applications made available for MacOS users.

Version 9.1.0 New Features:
  • Fully 64bit compliant
  • Minor bug fixes
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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Tel-FTP 2.1 for macOS High Sierra and Mojave has been released

WinOnMacs released Telnet FTP 2.1.0 for MacOS High Sierra and Mojave today.

About FTP

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.

FTP is built on a client-server model architecture and uses separate control and data connections between the client and the server.[1] FTP users may authenticate themselves with a clear-text sign-in protocol, normally in the form of a username and password, but can connect anonymously if the server is configured to allow it.

About Telnet

Telnet is a protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communication facility using a virtual terminal connection. User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information in an 8-bit byte oriented data connection over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

Supported Protocols:
  • Telnet
  • FTP
About Wine Reviews:

There is a multitude of software developed only for the Windows operating system and even when software vendors port their applications to another platform, generally it lacks features that the Windows version contains. The only solution these developers face is to have access to both systems for testing which leads to increased infrastructure demands, and wasted project resources. Our goal is to have native ports of essential Windows tools and applications made available for MacOS users.

Version 2.1.0 New Features:
  • macOS Mojave support
We now use FastSpring as our preferred storefront, you can pay with Credit / Debit Cards, PayPal, Amazon payments, Wire Transfer etc. etc. This store is very secure, simple and fast.

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Q4Wine 1.3.10 has been released for Linux and Mac OSX

Q4Wine is a Qt GUI for Wine. It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications. It currently supported on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X platforms.

Q4Wine was initially written by Alexey S. Malakhov aka John Brezerk. General idea comes from WineTools scripts which were initially written by Frank Hendriksen.



General features are:

  • Can export Qt color theme into wine colors settings;
  • Can easy work with different wine versions at same time;
  • Easy creating, deleting and managing prefixes (WINEPREFIX);
  • Easy controlling for wine process;
  • Autostart icons support;
  • Easy cd-image use;
  • You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll);
  • Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes;
  • Winetriks support;
  • And more: Explore it!;

Changelog for 1.3.10 :

Fixed:
  • cppcheck: Uninitialized struct member: item.provider_id;
Added:
  • cleanup.sh: to get rid of all non-release stuff;

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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Q4Wine 1.3.9 has been released for Linux and Mac OSX

Q4Wine is a Qt GUI for Wine. It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications. It currently supported on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X platforms.

Q4Wine was initially written by Alexey S. Malakhov aka John Brezerk. General idea comes from WineTools scripts which were initially written by Frank Hendriksen.



General features are:

  • Can export Qt color theme into wine colors settings;
  • Can easy work with different wine versions at same time;
  • Easy creating, deleting and managing prefixes (WINEPREFIX);
  • Easy controlling for wine process;
  • Autostart icons support;
  • Easy cd-image use;
  • You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll);
  • Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes;
  • Winetriks support;
  • And more: Explore it!;

Changelog for 1.3.9 :

Fixed:
  • Fixed build with Qt >= 5.11 BUG-125;
  • Error: wrong or broken XML data. Try again later. BUG-132;
  • winetricks: Proxy settings are used even if proxy type set to 'none';
Added:
  • Custom virtual desktop resolution size BUG-131;
Updated:
  • gui_sudo missing in Ubuntu 18.04 BUG-120;

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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Lutris 0.4.19 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

  • Prioritize winetricks from the runtime
  • Populate DXVK versions with github releases
  • Add support for DirectX 10 with DXVK
  • Fix detection of xgamma
  • Add 24BPP option for Xephyr
  • Restore Alsa option for Wine
  • Prepend additional system paths to runtime

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Saturday, September 1, 2018

Valve Changes Everything: Windows Exclusive Games Now Run On Steam For Linux

I had to blink a few times at today's news from Valve HQ. While we knew it was working on something special to run Windows games on the Steam for Linux client, I didn't expect an announcement this huge, and I didn't expect it so soon. Let's not draw out the suspense. Here's a quote directly from Valve: "Windows games with no Linux version currently available can now be installed and run directly from the Linux Steam client, complete with native Steamworks and OpenVR support."

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Valve just dropped what's arguably the biggest and most exciting news to hit Linux in years, and that includes SteamOS and the (admittedly failed) Steam Machines movement. This is a different animal. For folks who've wanted to ditch Windows and cite gaming as their biggest reason not to, this could change a lot of minds. Let's get into the details.

For the past two years, Valve has been funding and working on improving existing solutions for Linux that offer compatibility layers for Windows games, such as WINE. WINE, maintained by CodeWeavers, is by far the most widely used tool that allows most -- but not all -- Windows games and software to run on Linux with varying degrees of success. But it's often tricky to get them running smoothly, if at all, even with more elegant software front-ends like Lutris.


Valve is seemingly taking the headaches out of the equation. No more tinkering, no more dependency nightmares, no more guesswork. They've developed their own libraries and a custom version of WINE called Proton. It's open source, meaning anyone can contribute to it and use their own versions within Steam. All of this is being released inside a new Beta version of Steam Play.

Fans of Vulkan, the "close to the metal" graphics API used in games like DOOM, will certainly love the next bit of news: Valve has also made significant contributions to DXVK, and VKD3D, projects that essentially convert DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 (respectively) API calls to Vulkan on the fly. With the Steam Play update on Linux, all DX11 and DX12 implementations are now based on Vulkan. This means a dramatic performance boost compared to OpenGL.

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The WineHQ Wine development release 3.15 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The WineHQ Wine development release 3.15 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

What's new in this release:
  • Support for DPI scaling on Android.
  • HID device support in Raw Input.
  • Many more new icons in Shell32.
  • WinHTTP converted to use Windows Sockets.
  • Syntax fixes in the command line interpreter.
  • 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 3.15 (total 44):

   5610  psexec from pstools doesn't work (needs mpr.WNetAddConnection2W implementation)
  19182  Allow to completely disable MIME-type and application integration
  22333  Total Commander: Application freezes when the current directory field is editable, and you right-click a regular file and click Properties
  28037  cmd: sharing violation when using redirections
  30185  SuperPower 2 demo crashes on launch
  30487  Add icons for 'My Network Places', 'My favorites'
  31744  Multiple GFWL (Games For Windows Live) 3.5 games crash on startup due to incomplete Windows LiveID install (Street Fighter X Tekken)
  36884  Drakensang: The Dark Eye demo crashes on startup (needs d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateTeapot implementation)
  37525  Bionic Commando: No shadows mapping
  37636  u-center from u-blox crashes when attempting to add a log to screen
  37834  RtlSetCurrentDirectory_U prepends "UNC\" for network paths; the resulting path is invalid
  38565  Total Commander fails to redraw long list with Source: Filename setting
  39754  Multisample resolve is not implemented for typeless resources (EVE Online, Hearthstone, Just Cause 2, Outcast Second Contact, VRChat)
  39906  ODB++ Viewer fails to install due to improper bat file handling (quoting or delimiting problem)
  41376  Firefox Ver 49 will not run on Wine 1.8
  41652  Uplay cannot connect/login to Server
  41914  incorrect execute path within nested if (else) statement
  42870  CurrentBuild registry value is missing
  42998  HeidiSQL requires IDispenserManager implementation.
  43036  SetNamedPipeHandleState returns ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when setting PIPE_NOWAIT
  43911  Invisible menus in Rise of Nations Extended Edition
  44356  Neverwinter: some ingame objects don't render properly
  44369  cmd's %0 path variables (e.g. %~dp0) wrong inside subroutine call
  44653  Everquest Titanium (Project 1999): Significant performance regression from 3.1 to 3.2
  44879  Multiple games crash on unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll.GetDynamicTimeZoneInformationEffectiveYears (Universe Sandbox 2, Phoenix Point, Trailmakers)
  45084  winebus blocks startup for several seconds when HID devices are detected via udev
  45317  updating wine mono does not change version in uninstaller.exe
  45365  Multiple .NET XNA 3.x/4.x games using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media classes crash due to IWMPCore3::newMedia stub
  45366  A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda 1.x (.NET 2.0, XNA 3.1 game) crashes during intro ('quartz' BasicAudio_put_Volume must return E_NOTIMPL if audio renderer filter not present)
  45468  Phase Shift: tails on sustain notes not visible unless GLSL is disabled
  45475  XM6 Type G: Can't type a specific symbol key on Japanese keyboard.
  45478  World of Warcraft: graphical artifacts since 8.0 (BfA)
  45506  Waves Central: Plugins don't install anymore
  45568  League of Legends 8.12+ fails to start a game (anticheat engine, validation of loaded DLLs)
  45646  chromium 64-bit sandbox >=win8 needs NtCreateLowBoxToken
  45654  CreateNamedPipeW fails when pipe name starts with \\??\\
  45655  Acronis Storage Filter Management Driver 'fltsrv.sys' crashes on unimplemented function 'ntoskrnl.exe.DbgQueryDebugFilterState' in trace mode
  45660  SuperPower 2 demo fails to install
  45663  Multiple 64-bit MSI installers fail with 'err:msiexec:custom_action_server Failed to create custom action server pipe' (MS .NET Framework 4.x, Python 2.7, PSIM 11)
  45671  Wine build: can't write value of type 12 yet
  45681  SDL2 Game Controller API not working anymore with Wine 3.14
  45689  Quik 7: Combobox is not populated properly
  45694  WinHttpOpenRequest: unsafe characters are not escaped
  45726  Firefox 61.x crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetApplicationRestartSettings

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