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Friday, March 31, 2017
Putty for Mac volume discounts now available
Putty for Mac 7.5 is now available in the store, we are doing a soft release over multiple sites at this time. A release post with the full change-log will be posted here on Monday April 3rd 2017.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Putty for Mac version 7.5 status update
Full post and screenshots are here : https://winonmacs.com/2017/03/23/putty-for-mac-version-7-5-status-update/
Monday, March 20, 2017
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.4 is now available for Linux and Mac
- Built-in implementation of cryptographic hashes.
- Mono engine updated with upstream fixes.
- More Direct3D command stream work.
- Simulated bold and italic in DirectWrite.
- Improvements to the XML reader.
- Various bug fixes.
10858 BlueByte Game Channel fails to install
14371 cleanup undefined members in vartest
29133 Gómez PEER fails to update
30378 Xuzhou network client crashes at start
33987 Secret Files 3 demo shows only some parts of background in ConfigTool
36599 winhttp/tests/winhttp.c: test_secure_connection() fails under valgrind
36600 valgrind shows a possible leak in winhttp/tests/winhttp.c
36608 valgrind shows a definite leak in xmllite/tests/writer.c
37436 Aliens vs. Predator (2010, Steam) crashes when loading save game
38793 Lotus Smartsuite 3.1 installer reports insufficient disk space
39685 Multiple applications crash on startup, need unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.??0event@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ (Rollcage Redux v1.3.8, ARC client, Playstation Now)
40798 ACDSee Pro 9 (64-bit) needs msvcr120.dll.??0event@Concurrency@@QEAA@XZ
40910 The Next BIG Thing can't save the game (needs native xmllite)
41340 Unhandled page fault for Polaris Office Installer
41472 kolotibablo needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeAcquireInStackQueuedSpinLock
41684 unimplemented function uiautomationcore.dll.UiaClientsAreListening called in 32-bit code
41832 Galactic Civ 3 - ships are not visible
41951 Unimplemented function bcrypt.dll.BCryptDuplicateHash prevents DOOM from running
42209 Native Instruments Native Access 1.0.25 (R37) crashes on unimplemented function concrt140.dll.??1_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ
42239 Kontact 5.6 needs api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll._Wcsftime
42450 Unimplemented copy from WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_RGB to WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_SRGB for depth/stencil buffers.
42510 InternetOpenUrl does not send query parameters for HTTPS urls
42557 NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M detected as GeForce GTX 470
42559 Adobe Reader DC: No longer installs (Unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiGetComponentPathExW)
42575 Multiple applications need msvcp140.dll.?_LogScheduleTask@_TaskEventLogger@details@Concurrency@@QAEX_N@Z
42576 Poedit crashes on start on unimplemented function msvcp140.dll.?_Reset@_ContextCallback@details@Concurrency@@AAEXXZ
42578 WSAStringToAddress fails to parse IP v6 addresses with port number
42586 Adobe Reader DC crashes on startup (needs GetCurrentPackageFullName stub)
42603 Steep (Ubisoft) needs iphlpapi.dll.NotifyUnicastIpAddressChange
42625 Flushing file (int 0x21, ah=0x68) fails with access denied error in 16-bit code (affects QuickBooks 5.0)
42639 Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x7eff5a34)
42641 winetricks ie8_kb2936068 installer fails with error
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.3 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Obsolete wineinstall script removed.
- More Direct3D command stream work.
- A few more Shader Model 5 instructions.
- Better underline rendering in DirectWrite.
- Improved ODBC support on 64-bit.
- Various bug fixes.
Bugs fixed in 2.3 (total 41):
13249 Putty 0.60: Yes/No/Cancel dialog moving with keyboard arrows
20215 Extra mouse buttons do not work in Firefox
23187 DeferWindowPos behaves wrong when invalid HWND
25700 MessageBox does not display last word if string contains '&' (ampersand)
33423 Cultures 3 multiplayer hangs while creating a game
33717 regedit: Sorting registry keys on refreshing
37070 Missing polygons on 3D objects in Revenant (ddraw:d3d_device7_GetClipStatus iface, clip_status stub)
37390 Word 2007: crashes when choosing a font
37976 Poedit 1.7.4 crashes on unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ
38354 Multiple games and applications need msvcr120.dll._except1 (Audacity 2.1.0, Tera Online)
39895 MalwareBytes Anti-malware software needs msvcr100.dll.lldiv implementation
40488 Revenant crashes when starting a new game
40948 Multiple apps need api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll.__initialize_lconv_for_unsigned_char
40956 unimplemented function msvcr110.dll._Lock_shared_ptr_spin_lock when starting Zoner Photo Studio 18
41394 3DMark2001se 'Car chase' speed regression on mesa/nouveau
41408 Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcp140.dll.??0task_continuation_context@Concurrency@@AAE@XZ
41682 SPG-Verein 3.2 fails to install, needs advapi32.LookupSecurityDescriptorPartsA
41725 Unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll._except1 (Starcraft 2 main menu, Firefox)
41907 Necropolis: Unimplemented copy from WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_RGB to WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_RGB for depth/stencil buffers
41928 Mortal Kombat X needs msvcr110.dll._get_dstbias
42001 SC2 unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll._except1
42129 Steam client - unimplemented function mfreadwrite.dll.MFCreateSourceReaderFromMediaSource
42138 bug when running reaktor 6: "Unhandled exception: unimplemented function concrt140.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ called in 32-bit code (0x7b43bf1c)."
42240 Kontact 5.6 needs concrt140.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QEAA@XZ
42381 Final Fantasy V crashes
42405 Drawn lines are too long.
42426 ReportTool, part of SteuerSparErklaerung 2017 (german tax app) crashes on unimplemented function wlanapi.dll.WlanRegisterNotification
42463 ZmLearn crash at startup: "Assertion 'm->state == STATE_PASSIVE' failed at pulse/mainloop.c:787, function pa_mainloop_prepare(). Aborting."
42465 winhttp set_cookies() violates RFC6265 string comparison rules
42469 GetOpenFileName should expand environment variables in lpstrInitialDir
42483 Build for Ubuntu Precise fails because MPG123_IGNORE_INFOFRAME is undeclared
42487 Free Devanagari font Samanata crashes during GPOS processing
42490 Assertion failure when clicking boxes in altWinDirStat
42504 Computemark 2.1 runs with Wine 2.2 but black benchmark window..
42506 STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl crashes on startup
42507 Final Fantasy XI Online: Intermittent crashes.
42509 The Witcher 3 hangs the system on startup
42511 winnt.h: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'volatile char*'
42516 Kholat hangs on splash screen
42547 winex11.drv compilation fails on systems without XInput2 support
42567 Acid Pro Trial 7.0e fails to install
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Putty for Mac FAQ version 7
(Q) What is Putty for Mac?
(A) Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose But what will you do if you are on Mac? You might be thinking , Is there any Software like Putty for Mac Available? The answer is Yes! With the help of some other Software's we can Use putty on Mac although Putty is used widely on Windows Platform. Official Versions of Putty are available on Unix like Platforms, and now it's widely available for Mac systems running OSX 10.11 or higher. Please see the FAQ entry about running Putty on OSX 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10 below.
(Q) I get this error when installing ( Error : LaunchServices: Could not store lsd-identifiers file at /private/var/db/lsd/com.apple.lsdschemes.plist ) is this a Putty error / bug?
(A) No, it's a Mac OS X bug :) See : https://discussions.apple.com/
(Q) Can I install Putty on OSX 10.12 Sierra?
(A) YES! See : http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27
(Q) How do I expand the Putty window it is very small by default?
(A) Unfortunately at this time, Putty for Mac does not support resizing an established connection.
What you can do is create another session for your application and set a custom Window size for it by changing the Columns and Rows and then save that for future usage of that application.
I know it is not optimal and hopefully we will be able to support resizing sometime in the future.
(Q) Can I install and run Putty on OSX 10.8.x 10.9.x and 10.10.x or 10.13 High Sierra?
(A) YES! please see this post about PuTTY running on OS X 10.10 and this post about PuTTY running on 10.13 High Sierra.
(A) If you try to open an app that is not registered with Apple by an identified developer you get a warning dialog. This doesn’t necessarily mean that something’s wrong with the app. For example, some apps were written before developer ID registration began.
- In the Finder, locate the app you want to open.Don’t use Launchpad to do this. Launchpad doesn’t allow you to access the shortcut menu.
- Press the Control key and click the app icon, then choose Open from the shortcut menu.
- Click Open.The app is saved as an exception to your security settings, and you can open it in the future by double-clicking it just as you can any registered app.
Follow the above instructions and Putty should run as expected.
(Q)Where can I purchase Putty for Mac and how much does it cost?
(A) Putty for Mac cost just $15.00 and can be purchased here.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Uneeqs Awesome macOS software Bundle ends today!
Friday, February 17, 2017
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.2 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Windows version set to Windows 7 for new prefixes.
- More steps towards the Direct3D command stream.
- Still more Shader Model 5 instructions.
- Initial support for double-buffered theme painting.
- Various bug fixes.
Bugs fixed in 2.2 (total 35):
13365 Missing text in IFC Markets Terminal Graphics
14939 Black & White: DXTC to ARGB converter not implemented
17495 Open dialog crashes if the desktop folder is at a Unicode path that cannot be represented in the current locale
18477 Need For Speed Most Wanted crashes after accepting video settings changes
19888 Venom Codename: Outbreak - initial menu screen is black (no menu items)
25625 Implement PROPSHEET_InsertPage
26603 iMesh 10 crashes at startup (needs wmvcore.dll.WMCreateReaderPriv)
32414 Samsung TV SDK 3.5.2 Emulator crashes on startup (needs 'Shell Image Data Factory', CLSID '{66e4e4fb-f385-4dd0-8d74-a2efd1bc6178}')
33318 3DMark2001 SE: upgrading to Wine 1.5.27 reduces performance score by 20%
36213 valgrind shows some possible leaks under crypt32/tests/sip.c
36247 VHD Attach v3.90 (.NET app) needs virtdisk.dll
36341 valgrind shows some possible leaks under crypt32/tests/base64.c
36365 valgrind shows a TON of leaks in ieframe/tests/webbrowser.c
36395 valgrind shows a possible leak in inetcomm/tests/mimeole.c
36557 valgrind shows some invalid writes in ieframe/tests/webbrowser.c
36662 valgrind shows a few memory leaks in ws2_32/tests/sock.c
37398 Urban Assault black screen when using software renderer and DDSCAPS_SYSTEMMEMORY
37399 Urban Assault black screen when using software renderer (palette problem)
38485 New Marvel Heroes 2015 Launcher crashes on unimplemented function dhcpcsvc.dll.DhcpRequestParams
39048 MIDI Clock Messages are Corrupted Between Wine and ALSA
39655 Enemy Front crashes almost immediately after launch
39910 PDF XChange Editor annotations formatting not displayed after saving
40952 improper escaping of quotes in command line
41206 Artemis 2.4.0 crashed upon start
41448 Civilization II Unhandled page fault on read access
41648 AmiBroker 6.00 fails, when run, with raise_exception Unhandled exception
41753 Steep (Ubisoft) needs iphlpapi.dll.GetUnicastIpAddressEntry
41830 Updating group box text causes garbage
41926 Zafehouse demo crashes with Call from 0x7b43c14c to unimplemented function ddraw.dll.GetSurfaceFromDC, aborting
41971 Hitman Absolution crashes at startup at WineD3D on Windows
42094 winamp needs unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoStopTimer
42355 Artifacts in GTAIV appear and disappear when driving
42361 DX Library: PlaySoundFile() doesn't play MP3 files with specific extra headers
42365 Unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.fesetenv
42367 KiriKiri Z based games: main screen doesn't update.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Putty for Mac 7.0 has been released
Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose But what will you do if you are on Mac? You might be thinking , Is there any Software like Putty for Mac Available? The answer is Yes! With the help of some other Software’s we can Use putty on MacOS although Putty is used widely on Windows Platform. Official Versions of Putty are available on Unix like Platforms, and now it’s widely available for Mac systems running OSX 10.9.5 or higher.
SSH is available by default in Mac and Linux or Unix. Although you can use terminal for SSH connections still there are some benefits using putty such as Other clients don’t keep connections alive whereas Putty does. Also it is cool to use Putty as your SSH client if you are doing some CISCO Stuffs, transferring files, managing files on a server or whatever.
The cost of Putty 7.0.0 is only $15.00. Anyone who has purchased Putty in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Putty comes with six months of upgrades and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.
Supported Protocols:
- Telnet
- FTP
- SSH
- SCP
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Version 7.0.0 New Features:
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
CodeWeavers has Released CrossOver 16.1.0 for Linux and MacOS
The big news in CrossOver 16.1 is that we now support Quicken 2017. We know many of our customers use Quicken and CrossOver to do their taxes this time of year. With CrossOver 16.1, you can use the latest version of Quicken.
We have also fixed a number of other bugs since our last major release. Notably, we have fixed a problem with Microsoft Office 2013 installations in certain locales. We also addressed a problem which could prevent Microsoft Office 2010 from completing online activation.
Mac customers with active support entitlements will be upgraded to CrossOver 16.1 the next time they launch CrossOver. Linux users can download the latest version from CodeWeavers site.
CrossOver 16.1.0 is immediately available at www.codeweavers.com.
About CodeWeavers
Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers focuses on the development of Wine the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company’s goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held.
Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :
16.1.0 CrossOver - February 6, 2017
- Application Support:
- CrossOver now supports Quicken 2017.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug which prevented Microsoft Office 2013 from installing in the Spanish locale.
- Fixed a problem which could prevent Microsoft Office 2010 from completing online activation.
- Fixed a bug in the CrossOver preferences pane which prevented the preference for recording usage statistics from being properly displayed.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Uneeqs Awesome macOS software Bundle #4
– Calendar 366 - The complete menu bar calendar for events and reminders.
• Quick menu bar access (hotkey)
• Complete menu bar calendar app
• Sync with OS X' account & calendar settings
• 3 themes: Light / Dark / Darkest
– CrossOver Mac - CrossOver runs thousands of different Windows programs on Mac.
• No Windows license needed
• No Windows operating system required
• Microsoft Office 2013 Support
• 64-bit Support
– DEvonSphere Express - DEVONsphere Express keeps track of related emails, articles on the same subject, and similar web pages.
• Find other items related to what you're working on
• Search like Spotlight on steroids
• Context-aware; always focuses on what you do
• Runs as a menu extra, always available
– Easy Barcode - Barcodes make life easier, the way that they can hold a lot of information in such a small space.
• Very easy to use with wizard-style help options, 3 steps to complete your bar code design, and no need to learn anything else.
• 30+ bar code templates to choose from, including QR Code with logo, Code 39, Code 128, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC/EAN, Data Matrix, etc. Support ISBN or book code extend 2 or 5 digits.
• You can set to barcode data, barcode color, whether to display any auxiliary text, text font, or color.
• Barcode height, width, horizontal and vertical space can also be set by you.
– FireWall Builder - Is a flexible and powerful tool that allows you to build firewall configurations and policies.
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– Memory Cleaner - The first and the most efficient Memory Cleaner for your Mac.
• Frees up to 2x more memory than the competition
• Doesn’t freeze your system while cleaning
• Enable auto-clean and forget about slowdowns
• Tracks the most memory-consuming apps
– MP3 Converter - MP3 Converter encodes more than 200 audio and video formats to MP3 in one click. Get quality MP3 effortlessly.
• 200+ input audio and video formats.
• True batch processing.
• Automatic or custom output MP3 format.
• Improvement of sound.
– Narrator - Voice synthesis made easy for your Mac.
• Have Narrator read it out loud for you
• Export speech directly to iTunes
• Choose different voices, rates, pitches, inflections and volumes for each character you assign, giving your text a wide range of expressiveness.
• Silent read-along options for stage directions or for you to read out your own parts.
– Photo Size - Photo Size Optimizer is a powerful photo resizer and optimizer for Mac.
• 'Bulk' optimization with one-click.
• Easy management: When a folder is dragged into the application, Photo Size Optimizer will work on it immediately.
• Supports 70 types of image formats for resizing.
• The program solicits whether to overwrite the original files while exporting.
– Putty for Mac - Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today.
• Telnet
• FTP
• SSH
• SCP
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• Utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
• Over 20 styles to choose from
• Style runs offline, you can process high resolution images or videos any time you like.
• It’s easy to use and you can chain styles together for more style combinations
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• Download Videos – Download and Convert video from YouTube to your iPhone, iPad or desktop computer.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
The WineHQ Wine stable release 2.0 is now available for Linux and Mac
This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS.
It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications and games. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.
This is the first release made on the new time-based, annual release schedule. This implies that some features that are being worked on but couldn't be finished in time have been deferred to the next development cycle. This includes in particular the Direct3D command stream, the full HID support, the Android graphics driver, and message-mode pipes.
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*** Text and fonts
- More DirectWrite features are implemented, including:
- Drawing of underlines.
- Renderer sees drawing effect associated with text segment.
- Support for color fonts in COLR/CPAL format.
- Initial font fallback support, builtin data for some of CJK ranges.
- Support for Wine-specific font replacement registry settings.
- Improved font metrics resolution in case of incomplete or
ambiguous font data.
- Support for EUDC font collection based on current registry
settings.
- Font embedding in PDF files is supported.
- The RichEdit control supports bulleted and numbered lists.
- Bold glyphs can be synthesized also for bitmap fonts.
- Character tables are based on version 9.0.0 of the Unicode Standard.
*** Graphics
- Window, bitmap and GDI DC render targets are implemented in Direct2D.
- A wide range of optimizations make the DIB engine noticeably faster.
- GDI graphic paths are reimplemented for better compatibility; they
are also supported with enhanced metafiles.
- Gradients are supported in GDI enhanced metafiles.
- Metafiles are better supported in GdiPlus.
- The macOS graphics driver supports a high-resolution ("Retina")
rendering mode. It can be enabled by setting "RetinaMode" to "Y"
under HKCU\Software\Wine\Mac Driver.
*** User interface
- The clipboard support is reimplemented for better compatibility;
copy & paste of HTML text is also improved. Drag & drop works more
smoothly.
- In desktop mode, the taskbar displays running applications and
allows switching between them.
- Version 4 of the system tray notification protocol is implemented.
- In desktop mode, some less common display resolutions like 640x400
and 1280x960 are supported.
- More user interface elements scale correctly with high-DPI screens.
*** Direct3D
- More Direct3D 10 and 11 features are implemented, including:
- Several more shader model 4 and 5 shader instructions.
- Several more resource formats.
- Integer vertex shader inputs.
- Typeless resources.
- sRGB read/write support.
- Depth and stencil clears.
- Depth-only draws.
- Array textures.
- Index buffer offsets.
- Unordered access views.
- Primitive restart.
- The WineD3D graphics card database recognizes more graphics
cards. When available, the GLX_MESA_query_renderer GLX extension is
used to provide more accurate information about the graphics card.
- The (system) memory layout of texture resources more closely matches
Windows. This affects applications that write beyond the bounds of a
MIP-level, like for example League of Legends.
- The implementation of non-maskable multisample anti-aliasing is more
correct. In particular, when the ARB_internalformat_query extension
is available, only quality levels corresponding to specific sample
counts supported by the OpenGL implementation are reported to the
application. Previously, reporting a large number of non-maskable
multisample anti-aliasing quality levels would break some
applications.
- Direct3D 11 feature levels are supported.
- Retrieving a GDI device context from DXGI surfaces is
implemented. This is used for rendering to DXGI surfaces using GDI.
- More DXGI swapchain methods are implemented, particularly those
relating to switching display modes and switching to and from
fullscreen.
- When ARB_clip_control and ARB_viewport_array are both supported,
position fixups are slightly more efficient.
- The APPLE_client_storage extension is no longer used. It caused more
problems than it solved.
- New HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D registry keys:
- "CheckFloatConstants" (REG_SZ).
Setting this to "enabled" enables additional run-time bounds
checking on relatively addressed shader constant access. This
helps some (broken) applications, but comes at a performance cost.
- "MaxShaderModelHS", "MaxShaderModelDS" and "MaxShaderModelCS" (REG_DWORD).
These limit the maximum supported shader model for hull, domain,
and compute shaders respectively, analogous to the existing
"MaxShaderModelVS", "MaxShaderModelGS", "MaxShaderModelPS"
keys. Note that these shader types are new in shader model 5, so
setting this to anything lower than 5 will effectively disable
them.
- "SampleCount" (REG_DWORD).
Setting this registry key will force the multisample anti-aliasing
sample count to the specified value for swapchain render
targets. This allows anti-aliasing to be forced on applications
that do not otherwise support anti-aliasing themselves, but may
have no effect or break the application depending on the specific
application.
*** DirectDraw
- Retrieving a GDI device context from a DirectDraw surface is
implemented in a more accurate way. In particular, retrieving a GDI
device context for a "client memory" surface will retrieve a GDI
device context that's backed by that same client memory.
- A number of fixes related to vertex transformation in early
DirectDraw versions have been made.
*** D3DX
- The support for the D3DX 9 effect framework is more complete, in
particular:
- There is initial support for preshaders.
- Many more effect states are correctly applied.
- D3DX 10 and 11 asynchronous data loaders are implemented.
- The d3dx9 DLLs no longer forward to d3dx9_36, but are built from the
same source instead.
- The d3dcompiler DLLs no longer forward to d3dcompiler_43, but are
built from the same source instead.
*** Sound and video
- GStreamer version 1.0 is supported for audio and video streams.
- DirectSound supports downmixing from 5.1 and 4.0 formats to stereo.
*** Internet and networking
- The Web Services API is supported. The XML reader and writer are
implemented, along with support for serializing many common data
types. Basic support for making SOAP calls is also included. This
enables Microsoft Office 2013 online activation.
- The Gecko engine is updated to the version from Firefox 47.
- IDN name resolution is supported.
- Various SHA hashes are supported using GnuTLS.
- Looking up the host address prioritizes non-loopback interfaces,
which fixes a number of networked games.
- XML writing is faster for large files.
- Winsock supports the IP_DONTFRAGMENT socket option.
- Long URLs are handled correctly.
- JavaScript performance is improved. JSON is also supported.
*** Internationalization
- There is proper support for the Persian locale.
- Uniscribe better supports right-to-left languages.
- Japanese Hiragana, Katakana and full-width/half-width character
mapping is implemented.
*** 64-bit support
- 64-bit applications are supported on macOS.
- The Mono engine has 64-bit support.
- C++ exceptions are handled correctly on x86-64, including nested
exceptions and collided unwinds.
- The debug registers are supported on x86-64.
*** Built-in applications
- The 'winebrowser' helper application supports multiple arguments to
invoke the host browser or mailer.
- The 'reg' command-line registry utility supports the 'query'
command, all registry data types, and has more robust command line
handling.
- The 'winhlp32' help viewer properly displays tables and images.
- The 'wineconsole' tool better supports East-Asian fonts. Color
handling is also improved.
*** Build environment
- Import libraries can optionally be built as static libraries
similarly to Windows, instead of .def files. This avoids the need
for a separate .def.a library file.
- The IDL compiler supports "midl_pragma warning" directives.
- Cross-compilation with the Mingw-w64 Clang and ARM toolchains is
supported.
*** Kernel
- A new driver architecture is in place for supporting HID devices.
This follows the Windows model, with platform-specific bus drivers
and HID minidrivers. It will be used in future releases to unify
support for HID devices, and potentially also for USB device
support.
- Loading multiple kernel drivers inside the same user-mode process is
supported. This is used for HID drivers.
- A directory cache is implemented, to allow returning files in the
expected order and avoid relying on platform-specific system calls.
- Many more API Set libraries (the oddly-named api-ms-win-* dlls) are
implemented.
- Interrupt 0x2d (used for debugger checks) is emulated.
*** Miscellaneous
- Read interval timeouts are supported for serial ports.
- Variables starting with 'QT_' are filtered from the Unix environment
since they may have unwanted effects on Qt-based Windows
applications.
- Support for joystick button mapping and force feedback effects is
improved.
- Many stream classes are implemented in MSVCIRT, the old I/O stream
C++ runtime.
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) implements some more WBEM
classes.
- Most remaining OpenMP functions are implemented.
- Uninstallation support in MSI is improved.
*** New external dependencies
- libudev is used for HID device support.
- GStreamer version 1.0 is used instead of version 0.10.
- GnuTLS version 2.10 or higher is required for the SHA hashing
functions to be supported.
*** Configuration changes
- A number of DLLs are now built separately from a common source,
instead of forwarding to a master DLL. This means that native DLL
overrides need to be set on the specific version of the DLL being
loaded, instead of the master one. This applies to the d3dx9_*,
d3dcompiler_*, xaudio2_*, xapofx1_* and x3daudio1_* DLLs.
*** Release numbering
- Starting with 2.0, version numbering will change: stable release
updates will follow the existing scheme: 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, etc.
but the developemnt branch will drop the intermediate number: the
releases will be numbered 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc. leading to the next
stable release, which will be called 3.0.
--
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
New Putty for Mac Video SSH made easy
SSH is available by default in Mac and Linux or Unix. Although you can use terminal for SSH connections still there are some benefits using putty such as Other clients don’t keep connections alive whereas Putty does. Also it is cool to use Putty as your SSH client if you are doing some CISCO Stuffs, transferring files, managing files on a server or whatever.
Putty for Mac only cost $15.00 and can be easily purchased here.
Saturday, January 7, 2017
MacJournal for Mac 6.2.1 has been released
What's New
- Fixed an issue where closing a separate entry editing window would open a blank window
- Fixed an issue where keeping both entries in a conflict when syncing with an iOS device would cause one entry to be blank
- Fixed "Select Other" item in the Advanced Preferences main document selection list
- The document list for the main document in the Advanced Preferences will now update as documents open and close
- Fixed a potential crasher for syncing
- Improved performance for Dropbox documents
- Fixed hangs when exporting large entries to PDF
- Fixed an issue where changing the Entries List side to the same side it's already on would hide the list but it would still return upon relaunch. Now it doesn't hide
- Made saving the data file safer in odd circumstances
- Improved behavior when opening documents missing a critical subcomponent for describing the entries
- Made the Media toolbar item open the built-in image browser if available
- Fixed an issue preventing the 'A' key from being used in a Quick Note shortcut combination
- Improved recovery from failed syncs with iOS devices
- Fixed a potential crash launching with mulitple entries selected
- Fixed a crash when exporting multiple entries to PDF
- Added a way to fetch updated information for the support links to web pages in the Help menu
- Fixed a potential crash on launch after editing custom colors
- Improved performance rebuilding the Spotlight search index for very large documents
- Added a word count field to the conflict resolution window during iOS WiFi syncs
- Fixed an issue in macOS Sierra where new entries created from the New Entry service were missing the web browser source URL
- Fixed an issue uploading entries to Blogger
- Fixed an issue duplicating an entry from the Backups browser window
Requirements
- Intel
- OS X 10.7 or later
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Paperless for Mac 2.3.8 has been released
When it's tax time no more bringing a shoebox full of receipts to your accountant. According to ruling Rev. Proc. 97-22 from the IRS, a digital document is acceptable. With Paperless 2 you can create a Smart Collection and keep all your documents neat and tidy and in one place. Additionally, once you store your receipts in Paperless 2, you can select the receipts to email, print, or export to PDF, or even show as a chart.
Paperless 2 has the ability to keep up and maintain the task of not only reducing your need for paper but managing the paper you use. Simply scan your receipts, bills, statements, warranty cards, business cards - any paper document and the OCR function of Paperless 2 recognizes the data and adds it to the Details Window. The built-in search functionality even lets you find and organize receipts and documents into Smart Collections. Already have your documents as PDFs or other file formats? No problem. Simply drag and drop them into Paperless 2. By taking your paper receipts, product manuals and other documents and creating an electronic record you've already reduced your need for paper.
What's New
- Fixed crash on MacOS 10.12 Sierra when creating a new library.
- General bug fixes.
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
- Fujitsu ScanSnap Scanner is preferred although Image Capture compatible scanners are supported. Effective with Version 2.2, TWAIN scanners are no longer supported.
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The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc4 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc4 (total 28):
7592 Window problems when running Citrix ICA client ICA16 v6.20.985 (Win16)
11808 winefile: broken horizontal scrolling
24718 Condes renders every line or point 100x thicker than it should be
29287 Heroes of Might and Magic IV: performance issues with Opengl renderer
32682 Multiple .NET 4.0 applications fail to load the pen cursor (IDC_PEN, 32631, 0x7F77 missing)
33570 SWAT 4: Mouse Escapes Wine environment in full screen or windowed mode
34030 Altium Designer 10 hangs on startup accessing a driver
34807 Gruntz crashes on startup in d3d
35293 Halo: Combat Evolved has graphical glitches
35700 Arabic Shaping Is Broken After Rechedit News.
36959 Whirlwind of Vietnam crashes after starting
37416 The Sims 3: Display locks when running in window, uses 100% cpu
38766 RpcBindingServerFromClient is unimplemented, needed to determine client Computer Name/IP Address
39268 x11drv: Can't store handle for display fd
39714 Halo some sounds in cut scenes don't play
40169 Recognize INTERNET_FLAG_SECURE with INTERNET_INVALID_PORT_NUMBER in GetHttpConnection
40243 Korg Nano editor USB MIDI driver won't install, requires Administrator Privileges
40477 Motocross Madness and 3DMark2000 do not start (VRAM, video memory size)
41347 TMIDI Player: Some characters and logos in LCD are rendered as black rectangles
41599 Battle.net and Hearthstone play loud static when receiving messages
41708 Duo 0.10 crashes on startup
41998 Regression in wined3d crashes visual novel "A drug that makes you dream"
42031 Heroes Of Might & Magic VI: no more started
42057 Pressing Ctrl+C to close iTunes results in error dialog with gibberish title
42071 LINE (Powered by Naver): LINE does not work on wine 1.9.16 and later versions
42074 osu! - Audio latency regression (ALSA)
42090 Highway Pursuit constantly emits loud noise when sound effects enabled
42101 Strania - The Stella Machina (Steam) black screen on launch
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Friday, January 6, 2017
CodeWeavers has Released CrossOver 16 for Linux and MacOS
CrossOver 16 supports Microsoft Office 2013 on both MacOS and Linux. This brings the convenience, ease, and interoperability of the full featured, modern Office suite to our Linux and MacOS customers.
CrossOver 16 is the first version of CrossOver to support 64-bit Windows applications, with automatic install recipes for a few popular titles already. CrossOver 16 also incorporates code from the upcoming Wine 2.0 release, the open-source technology that allows Windows applications to be run on Unix. The net effect is that CrossOver 16 users will be able to run many more Windows applications, with enhancements to their performance and graphics.
CrossOver 16 is immediately available at www.codeweavers.com.
About CodeWeavers
Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers focuses on the development of Wine the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company’s goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held.
Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :
16.0.0 CrossOver - December 13, 2016
- Application Support:
- CrossOver now supports Microsoft Office 2013!
- Microsoft Office 2013 can be activated with either an Office 365 subscription or a product key.
- Core Technology Improvements:
- CrossOver 16 is based on Wine 2.0, with thousands of improvements to Windows compatibility across the board.
- CrossOver now supports 64-bit Windows applications, with new bottle templates and 64-bit dependency management.
- Bug Fixes:
- Quicken 2014-2016 updates will now apply automatically during installation.
- Fixed a bug which prevented saving very large files in Microsoft Excel 2010
- Fixed a bug which prevented opening hyperlinks from documents in Microsoft Office 2010.
- Shell folder links will now be updated when importing bottles into CrossOver from an archive file.
- Fixed an audio bug which could cause Blizzard games to emit unwanted noises from the speaker.
- Fixed a bug in Tencent QQ which caused the application to hang when adding a new contact.
- Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 will display correctly again.
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Monday, December 26, 2016
PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac version 5 now has DosBox support working
https://github.com/PlayOnLinux
Here is a Video of PlayOnMac version 5
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Saturday, December 24, 2016
Q4Wine 1.3.4 has been released for Linux and Mac OSX
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!;
Added:
- Add WINE env var to console environment BUG-91;
- Icons are not loaded properly with Qt 5.7.x;
- Console launch environment uses dead setting fields BUG-90;
- Q4Wine file selectors filters files with upper case extension BUG-94[QTBUG-51712];
- Refactor winetrkics parser: use direct parser + transactions;
- Links imported from Windows desktop do not work BUG-103;
- Import from Windows desktop is not working in some cases BUG-103;
- Processes tab does not detect some wine processes correctly BUG-100;
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The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc3 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc3 (total 15):
18081 warhammer dawn of war ii crashes
38207 Unreal Tournament 3 uninstaller fails when invoking from 'wine uninstaller' (removes wrong entries)
38555 The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System hangs during installation
39661 Font width incorrect in wineconsole
40429 regression: "mscoree set config path for default app domain" makes .NET app not working
40845 Uninstaller does not remove missing applications from the list
41378 wineboot silently ignores unknown WINEARCH
41476 Cannot paste in WinAuth 3.5.1 (32-bit)
41609 Uninstaller entries are not removed from the registry when the uninstaller says they will be
41732 wineconsole: changing to emacs mode requires restart
41733 wineconsole: crashes in emacs mode when pasting (Ctrl+Y) empty buffer
41744 Streamline crashes on launch
41869 Wine is not compiling: undefined reference to 'HIDIOCSFEATURE'
41909 Calling TBM_SETPOS after TBM_SETRANGEMIN/TBM_SETRANGEMAX does not draw slider control properly
41993 Chuckie Egg: The Next Batch v1.2 no longer works
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Saturday, December 17, 2016
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc2 is now available for Linux and Mac
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc2 (total 20):
31222 Hitman: Blood Money crashes when changing screen resolution
31309 TIE Fighter: Collector's Edition Crash - 'Escape Menu' Freezes Application.
32632 Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 does not load with timeout error
34829 wintrust:softpub crashes on Windows 8
35495 sharing violation and prompt for copy /B file1+file2 file1
38357 Cannot install download-audiograbber.exe
39430 Ride : The motorcycle game does not start
40256 user32:input fails on non-qwerty keyboards
40344 shell32:assoc regression (privilege issue)
40386 wininet:url regression caused by new cross-compiler
40978 Wrong colors on i915 and similar GPUs in GTA Vice City
41083 Red Faction: Guerrilla fails to start with DX11 renderer
41133 R32/R16 typeless formats generate incomplete FBO errors when used as a render target (Gauntlet, WoW with D3D11 renderer)
41141 gcc6: d3drm build warnings
41252 Helldivers gives this error when trying to run on MacOS
41630 Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum crashes on exit
41715 winhttp:winhttp test regression (test_secure_connection)
41717 webservices:writer test regression in test_datetime
41949 Pasting into IDA Pro stops working on macOS
41956 Regression in wininet crashes skype
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