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CodeWeavers CrossOver 14.1.11 ChangeLog

CodeWeavers recently released CrossOver 14.1.11 for Linux and Mac. Gaming performance continues to advance with this release. Their are important fixes for Mac OSX El Capitan the full change log is provided below.

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 14.1.11 CrossOver - October 29, 2015

• Application Support:
  • Fixed a problem with the Steam store.
• Linux:
  • Fixed installation problems on systems running Security Enhanced Linux.

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CodeWeavers CrossOver 14.1.11 has been released

I am delighted to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver 14.1.11 for both Mac OSX and Linux . CrossOver 14.1.11 has important bug fixes for Mac and Linux users.

Mac customers with active support entitlements will be upgraded to CrossOver 14.1.11 the next time they launch CrossOver Mac.  Linux users can download the latest version from https://www.codeweavers.com/.

Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :

 14.1.11 CrossOver - October 29, 2015

• Application Support:
  • Fixed a problem with the Steam store.
• Linux:
  • Fixed installation problems on systems running Security Enhanced Linux.

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Wine 1.7.53 from WineHQ has been Released

The Wine development release 1.7.53 is now available from WineHQ .
What's new in this release:

• Support for the various versions of XAudio.
• More implementation of the Web Services DLL.
• Improved OLE object embedding.
• Various code cleanups in Direct3D.
• New MAINTAINERS file and Signed-off-by requirement to improve the patch review process.
• 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 1.7.53 (total 61):

  13659  dogfood: xchat-2.8.4-1 does not install (quoting between CreateProcessW and  wmain)
  16294  Activeworlds client 4.2 doesn't think IE is installed
  21000  Tomb Raider III crashes in msadp32
  21813  Gamestudio A7 trial sub-installer fails ('msiexec.exe' doesn't handle '/passive' command line option for unattended/basic ui mode)
  23254  Cortex EDI The Electronic Biller installer window is unresponsive to mouse input
  23583  Multiple Antivirus software installers fail due to unimplemented Filter Manager FLTMGR.SYS (Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Ad-Aware, Avira Antivir, AVG Free, QQ)
  23799  Rawdump fails to detect drive(s)
  24043  Lost Planet 2 Benchmark needs XAudio2 '{3eda9b49-2085-498b-9bb2-39a6778493de}' XAudio2_6.dll
  25046  Multiple games need XAudio2 '{4c9b6dde-6809-46e6-a278-9b6a97588670}' XAudio2_5.dll (C4 engine)
  25171  Many DirectX10+ games need IDXGIAdapter::CheckInterfaceSupport method implementation
  26112  ntdll/env tests show a couple uninitialized value warnings in valgrind
  26345  Woody Two Legs demo menu items are unreadable
  26833  Multiple games need XAudio2 '{03219e78-5bc3-44d1-b92e-f63d89cc6526}' XAudio2_4.dll (Avatar demo, C4 demo, Iconoclasts)
  27735  Variance Shadow Maps Demo needs unimplemented function d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10CreateEffectFromMemory
  27775  Picasa 3.8 crashes due to IWiaDevMgr->EnumDeviceInfo stub
  29738  Wininet custom headers
  31369  Cypress PSoC Designer installer crashes with Wine-Mono
  32163  Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop CS6 wants gdiplus.dll.GdipCreateEffect
  32786  Happy Foto Designer 5.4 crashes on startup, reporting 'invalid pointer operation'
  33400  Photoscape 3.6.3 corrupts files when saving in jpeg format
  33757  XenCenter 5.5 crashes while starting
  34167  PhysX installer strikethrough text of licence agreement
  34483  Sentinel Protection Installer v7.6.6: Sentinel System Driver installer repair mode fails due to missing newdev.dll 'InstallSelectedDriver' function
  34841  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcr90.dll.__CxxExceptionFilter (Garmin BaseCamp 4.1.2, Visual Studio 2008 installer)
  34863  Etrom: The Astral Essence doesn't run (Mac OS X only bug)
  35052  The Lost Crown No Longer Works under 1.6.1
  35093  Vkt7Easy2.exe crashes on shutdown
  35197  Torrents Downloader 0.1 fails to start (unsupported flags passed to CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled should be ignored, not returning error)
  35375  Multiple applications need Vista+ API COMCTL32.dll.380 a.k.a. 'LoadIconMetric' (Solidworks 2013 systray monitor, Microsoft One/SkyDrive)
  35432  Wine builtin 'services.exe' crashes during prefix startup (service timeout, APC corrupts stack)
  35657  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcr110.dll.__CxxExceptionFilter (Anthem Room Correction 2 v1.0.1, ImpotRapide 2013)
  35964  gdip_format_string can segfault if format is NULL
  36519  Amazon Cloud Player fails to install
  36549  Multiple applications and games crash on unimplemented Win7 API 'GetThreadGroupAffinity' and 'SetThreadGroupAffinity' (Trion's Trove, Watchtower Library 2014)
  36847  Multiple games need XAudio2 '{4c5e637a-16c7-4de3-9c46-5ed22181962d}' XAudio2_3.dll (Prototype)
  36894  implement FlashWindowEx
  37542  Lotus Approach: scrolling in field boxes is broken (lParam argument of WM_SIZE message not ignored)
  37618  Battle.net agent spams console with 'wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported' every 4 seconds
  38062  .NET 2.0/3.x/4.x applications and games using System.Net.NetworkInformation NetworkAddressChangedEventHandler crash on startup
  38516  Winhttprequest setoption doesn't work
  38869  Multiple games (Torchlight 1-2, Evil Genius) have rendering issues with open source drivers when GLSL enabled
  38911  valgrind shows uninitialized memory in dlls/amstream/amstream.c:ddrawstreamsample_create()
  39133  Open File dialog fails with Filterforge 4.0
  39157  The Silent Age intro fade-in/fade-out effect shows as palette
  39213  advapi32:security fails if privileges not high enough
  39251  From Dust crashes on unimplemented function xapofx1_5.dll.CreateFX
  39258  Flock! crashes when loading the menu, needs XAudio2 '{e21a7345-eb21-468e-be50-804db97cf708}' XAudio2_1.dll
  39272  Homeworld Remastered crashes on unimplemented function msvcp110.dll._FExp
  39281  Temple of Elemental Evil (GOG.com) shows black screen during video playback
  39300  Watchmen: The End is Nigh needs XAudio2 '{fac23f48-31f5-45a8-b49b-5225d61401aa}' XAudio2_0.dll
  39304  Nail'd demo needs XAudio2 '{b802058a-464a-42db-bc10-b650d6f2586a}' XAudio2_2.dll
  39307  SkySaga installer doesn't show required disk space (msi builtin 'PrimaryVolumeSpaceRequired' property missing)
  39317  Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII Demo requires x3daudio1_0.dll
  39318  Saw: The Video Game requires xapofx1_2.dll
  39322  Saw: The Video Game crashes with unimplemented function x3daudio1_5.dll.X3DAudioInitialize
  39341  Dino Crisis 1 Demo  -- only black screen is shown
  39356  PlanCad-L v14.03 crashes on exit (_seh_longjmp_unwind4 must pass jump buffer cookie by address)
  39360  Arvoch Alliance demo stops loading: 'File error: aster.x' (needs native msvcr71.dll)
  39376  Kontakt 5.0 standalone or VST in FL Studio 11 crash with Windows version set to 'Windows 8' (needs kernel32.GetCurrentProcessorNumberEx stub)
  39399  NinjaTrader 7 (.NET 3.5 app) reports 'ProcessorNameString not found' (name attribute missing in 'Win32_BIOS' table)
  39422  Intel MPI 5.1.1 mpiexec.hydra.exe crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.CancelSynchronousIo

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PlayOnLinux Review Playing Windows Games Was Never Easier

PlayOnLinux is a well-known app that allows its users to install and run games and applications that have been released only for the Windows platform, without breaking any laws.

There is no denying that Windows has a large number of applications and games at its disposal and that some of those are actually pretty good. In fact, up until just a couple of years ago, most of the games were only released for Windows systems and occasionally for Mac OS. That has changed somewhat, but not all that much. Quite a few titles are still Windows-only, and people are still looking for old software.

Some of you will say that we already have Wine and that Crossover is doing a great job, and you would be right to some extent. The problem is that Wine is only friendly if the game is working out of the box, which doesn't happen all that often. Also, Crossover is a commercial application, and not everyone will be inclined to buy it, although it's extremely good. Keep in mind that many of the Wine developers are actually working for Codeweavers, the developers of Crossover.

PlayOnLinux is using Wine, and that is not really a secret, but its makers have gone a step further. They have also implemented a GUI that helps users get a much better understanding of what's going on and that makes the entire installation process mostly automated. You still have access to some of the most complex stuff, but it's possible that you won't need to.

Installation

I tested PlayOnLinux in Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), which technically is not a stable release just yet. I didn't have any problems with the application itself, but Wine decided to put up some resistance. Fortunately, PlayOnLinux is actually smart enough to install and use newer versions of Wine, even if dependencies are broken on the distro.

There is no official PPA for Ubuntu, but the developers do provide a DEB file and it installs just fine. If you want to use a third-party PPA, the guys from Noobslab have one in place. In any case, here is how you install the application by using the DEB file. Download the file, open a terminal where the file is located, and enter the following commands (root will be required):

sudo dpkg -i PlayOnLinux_4.2.9.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

PlayOnLinux also needs Wine, so we'll have to install that as well. As I was saying earlier, I had problems installing Wine 1.7 in Ubuntu 15.10, so I had to settle with Wine 1.6. This is not a major problem since PlayOnLinux can download and use other versions of Wine. Open a terminal and enter these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7

If you can get 1.7 to work, you can also install the 1.6 version.

Usage

PlayOnLinux is not a difficult-to-use application, and it has something for everyone. If you don't want to do anything complicated, then you just hit the Install button and look there for the application or game that you want. Those are basically profiles, which have been put together by people from the community.

Let's say that you want to play Bioshock. You select the game from the list, and PlayOnLinux will download some packages like Mono or Wine 1.4 (confirmed to work with Bioshock), and you get to a step where you are asked what kind of installation it is - from a file stored locally, from a DVD-ROM, or from Steam. I have that game on Steam, so I'll select that one. I will also have to download some proprietary fonts, but the application will take care of that as well.

I also have to install Steam, since I can't just use the Steam for Linux. The process will take a while because I have to download Bioshock, but as you can see, everything works smoothly. This was the scenario for something that was already available, but I also installed one of my favorite RTS games, the old Blitzkrieg, and that's not listed. The procedure is not much different, and I used my GOG.com copy. It went pretty much the same way, and I didn't have any issue.

It's also worth pointing out that you can also customize the application itself, quite a great deal, and you also access to the Wine installation as well. For example, I usually set Wine to work in a window and not in full screen. If something goes wrong (it happens sometimes), you can lock up your system with no way of shutting the application.

Another cool feature is the PlayOnLinux Vault that lets users save successful installations for later, with compression or without. This way, when you have a new installation of an OS, you just restore that package, and you don't have to do everything from scratch.

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WineBottler 1.7.52 has been released now runs on OS X El Capitain

WineBottler 1.7.52 is a major update which sports some thrilling new features.

Runs on OS X El Capitan

Probably the most important feature is the update to run on OS X El Capitan. In Apples proven one-two-combination, after the visual fixes in OS X Yosemite, we could expect a major cleanup in OS X El Capitan. Apple did this with security on its mind, so the proverb “There is the Easy Way and Then There is the Right Way” smacked the lazy dev in the face, once again.

First, Apple got rid of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH. Forcing us to “otool -L” and “install_name_tool -change” thru all the bins and libs of Wine to use proper @rpath relative paths for all Wine related libraries. The result is, of course, a correct linking through out the app – thank you Apple. I guess somebody has to kick you once a while to come up with proper solutions.

Then Apple implemented App Transport Security which forces us to use secure connections for interactions between Apps and web services – or to disable it. For now it is disabled in WineBottler, but I’m working hard on offering SSL connections to get this right. After all it is all about security and privacy.

Further there where some GUI/multithreading glitches (Toolbar and FilePicker dialog) that lead to crashes on El Capitan and the new Codesigning requirements that have been sorted out.

Saves up to 92% harddrive-space

Yep, this one sounds to good to be true… right? But here we go:
A clean Wine prefix weights in about 35mb. But Wine requires big add ons like gecko (for Webservices, 50mb) and mono (for .net Apps, 200mb) by default. They might not be needed by your app, but blow up an empty prefix up to 300mb. These two add ons can now be excluded: down 84%.

Further we added an option, to remove the “c:\users” directory when shipping an app. Wine will automatically add new users, when the app is run on a clients Mac.

Then you can automatically remove installer files (.msi) from your prefix before shipping – if they are no longer needed.

Lastly, we have optimized how WineBottler runs your prefixes. To this point, WineBottler will copy a prefix from the App to the folder ~/Application Support. This approach allows us to install Apps to restricted System folders, or Codesign them, without breaking the signature or having to give read and write access to the app, since the App works in the users Applications Support folder. We stick to that design, but we no longer copy, but link the files to ~/Application Support. Changes files will break the link and replace it with the new file. Unchanged files will only take up some bites, instead of a complete copy, saving nearly 50% of disk-space. THIS FEATURE IS STILL VERY NEW AND IN TESTING! So I’m more than happy to hear from you.

New Wine and mono version

Finally we included the current latest and greatest Wine: Wine changelog.

Thank you very much!

For your ongoing interest and support for this project. All dough I can’t answer all the mails, I’m always interested in feedback and suggestions. Thank you very much.



As usual: head over to winebottler.kronenberg.org and grab your copy .

enjoy
Mike

CodeWeavers just launched their new website that is mobile friendly in advance of their pending CrossOver Android release

CodeWeavers just launched their new website that is mobile friendly in advance of their pending CrossOver Android release. The new site has been refreshed and has a new FrontPage that gives users easy options to navigate the site.

 

The new CodeWeavers mobile site is a little more exciting, web pages now render correctly for a mobile device and also render much faster now. Their is a new mobile friendly store where you can not only purchase the forthcoming CrossOver Android release but it makes it easy to purchase from your phone for your laptop or PC. Customers will now be able to purchase CrossOver Linux easily from their Android phone and then at a later time download and install their new software. This also applies for iOS users having the option to purchase CrossOver Mac from their iPad or iPhone and installing the software at a later time of their convenience.

 

Waiting to see :  RUN WINDOWS SOFTWARE EASILY ON ANDROID WITH CROSSOVER  :)

 

The only thing to do now is wait a little while longer until CrossOver Android is released then I can have hours of enjoyment testing applications and games on my Tablet and phones.

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CodeWeavers скоро выпустит CrossOver Wine для Android

До конца текущего года CodeWeavers обещает выпустить tech preview CrossOver для Android, а также сделать соответствующий программный код доступным для Wine.

Основными пользователями CrossOver на текущий момент являются владельцы Mac, несмотря на то, что это ПО также доступно для Linux. Впрочем, ситуация может измениться в будущем в пользу Android, если CrossOver станет популярным на этой платформе.

CodeWeavers сообщает что изначально CrossOver будет совместим только с Android x86, и не будет работать на процессорах ARM (хотя возможность поддержки этих CPU в будущем вызывает сомнения). Это значит, что CrossOver/Wine позволит запускать Windows приложения только на Android устройствах, использующих процессоры Intel.

Представитель CodeWeavers также напомнил, что все еще ведутся работы над поддержкой DirectX 11, дающие возможность запускать новейшие Windows игры в Mac и Linux, однако пока поддержка всех функций D3D11 еще не реализована.

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CodeWeavers CrossOver 14 für eine bequeme Nutzung von Wine

Viele Linux und Mac Nutzer haben noch irgendein Windows Programm mit dem sie fast täglich arbeiten müssen. Die meisten nutzen dafür Wine, dass diese Programme mit unterschiedlicher Erfolgsrate auf ihrem neuen *nix System laufen lässt. Leider gibt es für Wine weder Garantie oder Support für bestimmte Programme, noch gibt es diesen Support von den Entwicklern aus der Community. Aber es gibt ja noch CrossOver.

CodeWeavers ist seit Jahren der finanzielle Hauptunterstützer von Wine, bieten eine angepasste Wine Version an und geben sogar Support für verschiedene Programme (einige Spiele, gewisse Produktivitätssoftware und einige Hilfsprogramme).

Für viele Nutzer ist Wine genau das was sie brauchen und auch noch kostenlos. Aber für die, die noch eine helfende Hand wollen, da sie es sich die Konfiguration ihrer Wine Installation für ihre Bedürfnisse nicht zutrauen, ist CrossOver ein guter Kompromiss.

Für 59,95 USD bietet CrossOver sowohl ein automatisiertes Setup für viele Programme, als auch eine Integration in den Paketmanager um Abhängigkeiten von Wine zu beziehen (z.B. Codecs, mp3 und mpeg Bibliotheken oder bestimmte Schriftarten).

Der Käufer kann auch Telefonsupport, der direkt von CodeWeavers kommt, dazu bestellen um Programme zum laufen zu kriegen. Zudem fließt jeder Kauf von CrossOver in die weitere Entwicklung von Wine ein, da viele Entwickler und Mitwirkende für CodeWeavers arbeiten. Jede Fehlerbehebung die sie entwickeln, „egal wie winzig“, geht direkt an Wine. Mit dem Kauf von CrossOver unterstützt man also Wine.

 

 

Für mich persönlich ist das beste Feature die Integration in den Paketmanager. Alle meine Programme, wie MS Office, World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3 und andere funktionieren gut in Wine.

Aber immer wenn ich eine neue Distro ausprobiere muss ich auch wieder alle Abhängigkeiten installieren (wie z.B. die 32-Bit Version von gstreamer codecs, libmpg, mp3 Unterstützung, …).

Aber mit CrossOver werde ich gefragt ob ich die Abhängigkeiten installieren möchte sobald ich versuche ein Programm zu installieren das diese braucht.

 

 

 

Für erfahrene Nutzer gibt es vielleicht keinen direkten Vorteil CrossOver zu kaufen, aber für diejenigen die nicht so technisch versiert sind, oder die dem Wine Projekt helfen möchten, für die ist der CrossOver ein einfacher weg sich und der Wine Community zu helfen.

 

 

CrossOver hat es geschafft seit Jahren relativ gut zu funktionieren. Selbst CrossOver Office 5 von vor über 10 Jahren sowie CrossOver Games, welche dann in CrossOver integriert wurden.

 

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WineSkin WS9WineCX14.1.10 and WS9Wine1.7.52 has just been released

I just posted 2 new engines with the latest updates for Wine source, and for Crossover Wine source (WS9Wine1.7.52 and WS9WineCX14.1.10).  You should find them for download in Wineskin Winery .

Enjoy!

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How Im Earning My Beer part 3

The final piece is getting Wine Test Daily to run automatically. That means, it should run when I'm not here, whenever Wine has been updated. Sure, I can reach over and start all of the tests on each system here at CodeWeavers every day when I appear at work but the fact that I can have my systems setup to do it for me is more than appreciated. It's one of the best features of wt-daily, it checks to see if it needs to run. It stores the last git commit number in a file and whenever it's called, it compares the current git commit with the last one it used. If they are different, wt-daily runs a new set of tests.

WineHQ gets commits a little after I arrive at work. I'm happy to manually start the tests but often times losing my Macs for an hour to automatic tests is bad. I've setup the tests to take place after I leave for the day and am pleased to report that those tests have run overnight successfully several times. This part will be more technical on the Mac OS and only have a little work to do with wt-daily.

Let's finish setting up wt-daily first.

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Wineskin 2.6.1 has now been released

I've released an update for Wineskin ... version 2.6.1.
I think I've fixed all the Mac OSX El Capitan bugs and it should work fine on 10.6 - 10.11 now.

* important point.  This has to change how an engine is installed in a wrapper slightly.  If you update a wrapper to 2.6.1 and it does not work right, please reinstall the engine in the wrapper.  You can just use Change Engine and install the same one back in, but it will install it correctly for 2.6.1 and then things should work right.  Newly made wrappers should have no issues.
Please test 2.6.1 and let me know of any issues.  I'll try to fix any new issues that may be found for a 2.6.2 soon if its needed.

You'll be able to get 2.6.1 in Wineskin Winery as an updated wrapper.
Sorry for the long delay, and not having these issues fixed before El Capitan was released.
If you get stuck with a wrapper that just goes "Cannot be opened" then Right click in the wrapper and select Open the first time you run it.

Manually Installed Item Downloads

 If you’d like versions of Engines, Wrappers, etc...  you can install to Wineskin Winery manually instead of using its built in downloader, they are all available at the Mediafire.com Wineskin download location.

Mediafire.com Wineskin download location

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8p4vcab6414gv/

Also, all engines and files ever made for any version of Wineskin are kept there!

If your looking for older engines, or any older files, this is the place to look.

*note Wineskin Wrappers 2.5+ requires WS8+ based engines.

 

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