q4wine 0.113 has been released

Finally, after many months of development, testing and bugfixing a new version of q4wine has been released. q4wine is a wine configuration and management utility written in QT.
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;
• Easy installer wizard for wine applications; (Not yet. Wait for v. 0.120)
• Autostart icons support;
• Easy cd-image use;
• You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll);
• Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes.
• Winetricks support.
• And more..

New features avalible in the 0.113 release are:
Added:

• Added q4wine-cli console utility for wine applications and prefixes management.
• Added libq4wine implementation;
• Added embeded q4wine-mount (This is a copy of fuseiso + RH path);
  Note: use this if you too lazy to compile fuseiso from SF and apply pathes;
• q4wine now remembers 8 recent mounted images;
• q4wine now remembers 8 recent runned binaryes via Run dialog;
• QtSingleApp integration. Now you can run only one instance of q4wine-gui;
• Online documentation;
• Now q4wine save last user selected prefix and dir;
• Added "open directory" menu items via xdg-utils;
• Added "open directory" menu items via winefile;
• Added xdg-utils support (note: now it is in the depends list)
• Added translation file for Portuguese (Brazil) by Marcio Moraes;
• Added *.xpm filter to icon import patten;
• Added http proxy support for winetricks;
• Improved icon display widget;
• Added Drag & Drop support;
• Added Drag support q4wine icons export;
• Added Drop support for wine .exe and .com files;
• Added Drop support for wine .bat files (Now autoadd wineconsole binary args);
• Added splitter for programs and icons lists;
• Added command line option for q4wine (See q4wine --help for details);

Fixed:

• Linux: Improved wine process list build (thanks to Sergey Kishchenko (tilarids));
• Cleanup q4wine tmp directory on exit;
• Some fixes for q4wine.desktop (thanks to Eugene Pivnev);
• Fixed GUI bug: Text fields size, on some desktop configurations, are too small to edit;
• Fixed a lot of English spelling errors (thanks to Sergey Kishchenko (tilarids));
• First steps for source code documentation via Doxygen....;
• Total code reorganize;
• Database engine rewrite;
• Many fixes for q4wine.desktop file (thanks to Kyrill Detinov);
• Fixed compilation with Qt-4.4.X (thanks to Kyrill Detinov);

Bordeaux 1.8.6 for Linux Released

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 1.8.6 for Linux today. Bordeaux 1.8.6 fixes a critical bug in the rpcrt4.dll. If you have had problems with Bordeaux 1.8.x not installing a application we recommend you update to 1.8.6 and the problem should now be resolved. Bordeaux allows Linux users to run many of today's popular windows based applications and games on Linux. There has also been a couple other small bug fixes and tweaks in this release.
Bordeaux 1.8.6 was tested against Wine 1.1.26

The cost of Bordeaux 1.8.6 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

Supported Applications/Games:

• Microsoft Office 2007
• Microsoft Office 2003
• Microsoft Office 2000
• Microsoft Office 97
• Microsoft Office Visio 2003
• Microsoft Office Project 2003
• Adobe Photoshop 6
• Adobe Image Ready 3
• Adobe Photoshop 7
• Adobe Image Ready 7
• Adobe Photoshop CS
• Adobe Photoshop CS2
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
• Steam and Steam based Games
• Apple QuickTime 6.5.2 Player
• IrfaView 4.25 (Image files only)
• Winetricks support

About Bordeaux:

The Bordeaux Technology Group is a software services and development company specializing in Windows compatibility software. Users of Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac systems from time to time find themselves in the need to run specialized Windows software. The Bordeaux suite enables access to these programs and data in a seamless and low cost manner without requiring licensing of Microsoft Technology. The Bordeaux Group also provides migration services and support for alternative operating systems specializing in Windows compatibility.

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. If you are vendor interested in supporting your application on Linux, BSD, Solaris or Mac OS X or a software user that needs to run a Windows application on Linux, BSD, Solaris or Mac OS X we can help.

Version 1.8.6 New Features:

• Fixed a critical bug in rpcrt4

CrossOver Games 8.0.0 Supports New Games and Snow Leopard

CodeWeavers has announced CrossOver Games 8.0.0, the first version of the piece of software to fully support Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard (CrossOver Mac is already friends with Mac OS X 10.6). This piece of software enables Mac users to play the most popular Windows PC titles on their Macs, without using costly virtualization software.

“I am happy to announce that we have now released version 8.0.0 of CrossOver Games, for both the Mac and for Linux,” Jeremy of the CodeWeavers team says. “Version 8 now supports Left4Dead, Tales of Monkey Island (via Steam), and a range of other new games,” his email reads. “It also sports a lot of 'under the hood' improvements that should lead to better visuals, better frame rates and more enjoyable game play all around,” Jeremy adds.

“Version 8 also supports Snow Leopard, so everyone, even the most up to date folks, can exterminate the Zombie plague,” the message reads. A complete list of changes is also provided by the people at CodeWeavers, who claim to have fixed several problems with memory management. The company has set Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0 to be enabled by default and fixed various regressions in HL2; TF2; Spore; Guild Wars; Civilization IV; LOTRO (unsupported); EVE (unsupported); Pharaoh (unsupported); City of Heroes (unsupported); Lego Starwars (unsupported); Bejeweled.

We’ve saved the best for last – CrossOver Games also includes support for new games. Those are: Dragon Sky; Last Chaos; Jade Empire; Ether Saga; Perfect World; Left4Dead; Tales of Monkey Island (via Steam); Shaiya (“though only in non-English versions, for DRM reasons,” the team at CodeWeavers says).

Overall, CrossOver Games is probably the best solution for hardcore gamers due to the super-fast Wine platform and it's greater reliability/convenience for gaming over Parallels and Boot Camp.

Putty for Mac

$15.00