Wineskin Pro 2.3 released

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Wineskin Pro 2.3 today. Wineskin Pro 2.3 has file associations fixed, bug fixes for Custom Engines, confirm quit dialog option, bug fixes for the menubar, a small bug fix for the Advanced window. A full change log is provided in the new features section. This release also has a custom built Xquartz X11 server that Microsoft Windows Games require to run in full screen mode. We also provide binary Wine builds as well as binary CodeWeavers CrossOver builds from their public source code. Wineskin Pro also comes with Graphical tools to assist you in installing and configuring Wine as well as building your own custom Wine builds from source.

Wineskin Pro 2.3 will run on any Intel Mac computer with OS X 10.5 or higher installed. This released has also been tested on the upcoming OS X 10.7 Lion release.

The cost of Wineskin Pro 2.3 is $29.95 and comes with six months of upgrades and support.
Supported Applications/Games:

At this time we don't offer support on a per Game or per Application basis, the best way to know if a application or game will run with Wineskin Pro is to take a look at the public Wine AppDB at WineHQ. With Wineskin Pro you can have multiple Wine versions installed at one time, so if a new Wine release fixes one Game and breaks another you can still play both of your Games with Wineskin Pro!

About Wineskin Pro:
Wineskin is a tool used to make wrappers to run Windows software on Mac OS X. The wrappers are in the form of a normal Mac Application, which can be double clicked and ran just like its native. They can also be used to make a distributable port of software. You do not need the Windows program's source code, you can attempt to port any program you want.
With Wineskin Pro you will receive basic support for installing and configuring the Wineskin Application. We will also answer questions about installing engines and configuring wrappers, and in the near future provide custom engines that have been tested to work with today's most popular Games.
Unlike other solutions you can have multiple engines (Wine versions) installed at one time, so if your favorite game runs in that engine you don't have to worry about it breaking in a future Wine release.
About Bordeaux:
The Bordeaux Technology Group is a software services and development company specializing in Windows compatibility software. Users of Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris 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, OpenSolaris or Mac OS X or a software user that needs to run a Windows application on Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris or Mac OS X we can help.
Version 2.3 New Features:

• File associations are fixed, including just running a .exe straight from Finder.
• Custom Engines should now work fine using any name you want to use.
• Confirm quit dialog option available.
• The default Menubar name should now be the original wrapper name when its created instead of just "Wineskin Wrapper".
• The Wrapper version and current engine being used show up as text on the Wineskin.app Advanced window.

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Wine 1.3.22 Released

The Wine development release 1.3.22 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• Support for Indic text shaping.
• Generation of stubless code in the IDL compiler.
• Support for X files in D3DX.
• 4- and 24-bit bitmap formats in the DIB engine.
• Listview performance 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 1.3.22:

219 Programs refuse to run because of safedisc copy-protection
7065 Get SecuROM copy-protection working
9781 Endless loop in Wineconsole with user mode
12500 jedi knight window is unmanaged, no title or borders
12949 assassin's creed to slow to play
14129 Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos can't find CD/DVD Drive (SecuROM 4.x)
15713 widl generates incorrect format string for top level conformance
16332 crash in file dialog if the previous selected folder is deleted
17094 Mr. Robot graphics fail to render
17544 Gothic does not start (black screen) due to ddraw error
17908 TCSPC fails to install
18326 Pharaoh/Cleopatra doesn't recognize CD-ROM drive (SecuROM 4.x)
19278 Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 will not run without no CD modification (SecuROM 4.x)
20166 NetLocalGroupGetInfo() returns success but no data buffer
20286 minimap problem in Supreme Commander Forged Alliance
21036 Persian Font Problem
21130 'cmd/c echo.' should give a newline
21147 SafeDisc v1.3x media validation fails/launcher crashes (secdrv.sys doesn't support WinVer > Win2000) (Rayman 2, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, ...)
21552 Pathologic hangs on starting up
21594 Bottom of windows cut of with KDE4 Dual-Head Setup
21998 FIFA 2010 crashes on start
22964 Launching Deus-Ex game from Steam no longer works
23145 Opera 10.53 crashes on startup
23240 "Ambient Lighting" sample D3D program crashes
23861 Multiple apps crash on startup/exit due to cross-process OLE drag and drop bug (Adobe Acrobat 7.0, HTML-Kit, Albumplayer, TortoiseSVN)
23965 Steam exits silently when querying system information (crash due to missing crypt32.dll PFXVerifyPassword stub)
24239 IW2 Edge of Chaos loses sound every few milliseconds
24433 MS-Word complains "Do you want to revert to the saved '' ?" at opening files
24642 Tag: The Power of Paint crashes with unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXLoadMeshHierarchyFromXA
24683 Upper left corner of Epicenter setup heading is corrupt.
24686 Kleptocracy crashes without d3dx9_28.dll
24694 Agamemnon's Curse crashes with d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXLoadMeshHierarchyFromXW
24739 Bioshock 2 cannot pass release date check
25192 'fatal error in gc: collecting from unknown thread' with Mono
25219 Demoscene demo @party invitation crashes with unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXLoadMeshFromXInMemory
25368 Age of Empires 3: mp3's don't play in gstreamer if a native codec is installed
25785 King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame: severe visual artifacts
25942 Wine's implementation of d3dtypes.h does not work with ISO C++.
25999 wine builtin IE crash while opening zero byte file (such as https://mybank.icbc.com.cn/indexicbc.htm )
26674 OpenGL 2.0 Shading Language Terrain Texturing Demo crashes on unimplemented function msvcp100.dll.??0?$basic_ios@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@IAE@XZ
26885 del /s crashes if it encounters a directory containing a space
26931 Nvidia hdr sample wants d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXLoadMeshFromXW
27016 Fallout 3: fails to start
27079 Painkiller Black: black screen and crash at start
27093 CadStd: Toolbar buttons are shifted to the left
27108 windows 7 cmd.exe aborts with unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.RegOpenKeyExW
27143 metatrader 4 doesnt show news and emails
27167 Eve: can't move windows in game, mouse sticks
27222 dbghelp.dll.SymEnumSourceFilesW needed (ollydbg2)
27225 Looking around with the mouse is uncontrolled
27250 Prey receives a truncated hostname from hostname.exe ?
27270 Unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ObReferenceObjectByName called by Activex control of cebchina online bank
27280 BHDCInstall_per can not install (unimplemented function cfgmgr32.dll.CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeA )
27302 Star Fury doesn't detect 3D device correctly
27317 Finereader not showing dialogs
27337 Raw sockets aren't closed correctly in ICMP monitoring programs
27338 Msi should provide detailed error if temporary row can't be inserted (MSIMODIFY_VALIDATE_NEW -> MSIDBERROR_DUPLICATEKEY support, Dirt3 installer fails)
27339 improper last error code set by GetUserNameW
27342 Iexplore can't open url regression
27343 Perfect World Russian doesn't start, since wine-1.3.20
27348 _snprintf overflows specified bounds
27369 Office 2007 SP2 installer reports success but fails to install some components
27400 SecuROM 4.x/5.x helper driver needs ntoskrnl.exe.IoSetThreadHardErrorMode stub
27411 Dark Fall crashes on launch

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Wineconf 2011 dates and location has been set

Wineconf 2011 will be held in Minneapolis Minnesota this year and hosted by CodeWeavers Inc. If you would like to help support Wineconf 2011 this would be a good time to make a donation to the WPF or purchase a product from Codeweavers.

Below is a copy of the announce e-mail that Jeremy White sent to the Wine Development mailing list.

Hi Folks,

We have made arrangements for this year's WineConf to happen in Minneapolis, MN on Saturday October 1 and Sunday October 2. Minneapolis is the little known other city of the Twin Cities across the river from our home town, St. Paul. I've put some preliminary information up on the Wiki: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineConf2011

We thought that this year it would be fun to stay in downtown Minneapolis, as there is quite a bit to do there.

Further, at that time of year, the weather has a good chance of being beautiful, so it will hopefully be a great time for all. I checked, and only very rarely has it been below freezing on October 1 . (Seriously, it's usually very nice. Really. Trust me).

If you are interested in WineConf, and have contributed to Wine, but are not sure if you can afford the travel costs, please write to me. The Wine Party Fund is used mostly to defray travel costs these days and we may be able to help.

Note that most further communication will happen on the wineconf mailing list; if you're interested, you should subscribe.

If you're coming, please hit the RSVP page: http://www.winehq.org/wineconf/rsvp/

Hope to see you in Minneapolis!

Cheers,
Jeremy

Wine 1.3.21 Released

The Wine development release 1.3.21 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• Support for installation rollbacks in MSI.
• 8- and 16-bit bitmap formats in the DIB engine.
• Fixes in the XInput2 mouse support.
• Better support for text shaping in Uniscribe.
• Improvements to the Item common dialog.
• More MSVC runtime functions.
• 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 1.3.21:

2547 word perfect 12 trial fails to install
5016 SonEd program misses the scrollbars (and a few other things)
5158 Foobar2000 fails to write ID3v2 frame to file
5761 wcmd double-transforms Unicode filenames
6971 Mouse "escapes" window or is confined to an area in the full screen program NO HACKS PLEASE
12084 Project Nomads: game can't grab mouse
14758 drakensang can not create render surface
14864 Google Lively, Chrome installers require native msxml3
15106 Google Chrome installed but with interface and connection issues.
15178 Google Chrome shows some images/videos flipped vertically
15190 Google Chrome status bar renders improperly
15527 Lineage2: only black screenshots. IWineD3DSurfaceImpl_LoadTexture: Operation not supported for scratch textures
15833 TreeView control don't save item's state
15896 Exp Elite: Runtime Error '445': Object does not support this action
16453 Google Chrome outer installer can't download inner installer
17319 ImageList_DrawIndirect ILS_ALPHA needed
17489 JigsawADay.com puzzle applications do not display a window
18142 Rainmeter skins do not display
18588 VRTool works too slow in Wine
18642 Silverlight About Window reports wrong App version
18868 Volvo - The Game: extremely slow install
19058 foobar2000: the window is messed up
19137 Missing or malfunctions textures LineageII C5
20002 Garmin Training Center 3.45 Installer button disappear
20128 MS .Net Framework 4.0 installer needs native msxml3
20221 Pressing "Details..." button causes nothing in Nullsoft Install System
20233 Installer seems to hang (NFS Undercover, Fifa 10, ...)
20671 google chrome can't log in to gmail
20801 2gis city module cannot install
21555 Foobar2000 crashes when trying to "open containing folder" of a file (needs SHELL32.dll.SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems stub)
23061 Installation of wordviewer 2003 (11.6506.6505) SP1 patch(es) failes
23312 Photo! Editor crashes because of importing gdiplus by ordinal
23568 Foobar2000: Cannot play audio files
23852 Gothic 3: Intro plays only with native quartz
23917 Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 Standard does not install
24074 configure: printf: Argument list too long
24141 OpenGL Camera Demo - Part 3 crashes on unimplemented msvcr100.dll file/locking API (_lock_file, _unlock_file, _fseeki64, __pctype_func fix)
24607 Google Chrome installer fails
24845 Tropico 3 demo crashes on startup
24906 AntiVir installer doesn't show information on the first screen
25228 Office 2007 apps (word, excel, powerpoint) refuse to start when previous unclean shutdown was detected and Winver is set >= Vista (missing Application Recovery and Restart API stubs)
25592 Internet Explorer 7/8 x64 installers crash: unimplemented function msvcrt.dll._local_unwind
25864 Crashes while editing tags in Foobar2000
25969 Lords of the Realm 2 crash after intro video
26048 cmd tests show some uninitialized value errors under valgrind
26392 Builtin IE won't display some jpeg images
26828 VOIP Buster 4.07 (build 629) : Unhandled Page Fault on starting application
26933 Iexplore relative links not work ok
26945 X-Lite 3.0 crashes during init
27008 Lucent Heart: crashes on start
27033 crash while installing usb-over-network-client.msi
27081 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood crashes once gameplay starts
27107 Corel Ventura 10 - the impossibility to install software
27114 LTspice IV installer freezes after installation completes
27134 osu!: Video memory lack error and crash.
27136 Oblivion: Mouse clicks or mouse hoovering don't work
27147 Mass Effect 2 demo: cursor is offset
27149 Clones demo installer crashes
27152 Lemony Snickets installs in the wrong location (C:\Activision rather than C:Program files\Activison)
27170 Prey wants hostname.exe
27172 Some msvcrt string functions incorrectly return status from 'safe' versions causing multiple apps to fail (corel draw 12 ...)
27175 Desperados demo freezes in a matter of seconds
27209 Builtin IE fails to load some pages, floods err:wininet:HTTP_ReceiveRequestData No data reported!
27287 Chrome (game) crashes on launch

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CODEWEAVERS MARKS 15TH BIRTHDAY BY REVEALING BIRTHER VIDEO

Offers all software at price corresponding to day of the month: $15 on May 15, $16 on May 16, etc.
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (May 12, 2011) CodeWeavers, Inc., which provides the celebrated CrossOver software enabling Mac and Linux users to run Windows software on their computers without the need of a Microsoft license, this week marks its 15th birthday by releasing its birther video and offering its new CrossOver Bundle product at a price that corresponds with the day of the month.
Star-crossed hook-up at mega mall
 
As the birther video reveals, CodeWeavers was founded by CEO Jeremy White after witnessing the inception of a fiery romance between a Mac user and a PC devotee who met on a random Tuesday afternoon at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. With that passion—and seed capital White earned in a lawsuit he settled out of court after being rear-ended on I-35W by an over-caffeinated campaign volunteer for H. Ross Perot’s ill-fated ‘96 presidential campaign—the product known as CrossOver came to be.

“I’m incredibly proud of CrossOver, which has grown into a bright-eyed teenager,” said White as he sat at his desk attempting to dry his tears off the birthday card he was signing for his software. “Sure, he’s had his meltdowns and occasionally he’s done things I had no idea he could do. But, through it all he’s been a trusty alternative for individuals who want to run Windows applications on their computer without the drudgery and expense of buying a Microsoft license.

“So, to celebrate CodeWeavers birthday, we are rolling out our new CrossOver Bundle product—which contains both our CrossOver and CrossOver Games products in one neat package. And we’re offering it in a pricing structure that is not only incredibly affordable but also mind-bogglingly confusing.”

CrossOver price to correspond with day of month
Beginning May 15 and continuing through May 31, individuals can download the new CodeWeavers Bundle product at a price that corresponds with the day of the month. Normally a $49.95 value, individuals can buy the software for $15 on May 15, $16 on May 16, $17 on May 17, and onward through May 31. Full details can be found here.

Special $15,000 Platinum Edition includes free shirt, book and more
Additionally, from May 15 through May 31, individuals can purchase a truly exclusive CodeWeavers Platinum Edition version of the software for $15,000. For this reasonable price, individuals receive:

• One copy of CrossOver Bundle
• Lifetime tech support from the customer’s own personalized “Support Ninja”
• Round trip airfare (coach class) from anywhere on the planet to CodeWeavers’ Global Headquarters in the sprawling megalopolis of St. Paul, MN.
• Three night’s stay at a Day’s Inn, mere blocks from aforementioned Global Headquarters
• Dinner with Jeremy White at Psycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge, a Minneapolis tiki bar as seen on TV
• Free general admission ticket to a Saint Paul Saints baseball game (assuming they’re playing when you’re here)
• Autographed 8x10 photo of Jeremy White
• 1-Day unpaid internship in the CodeWeavers department of your choice.
• A wolf moon shirt at one size smaller than your regular size
• Your very own copy of How to Avoid Huge Ships

For more information, visit 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. For more information about CodeWeavers, log on to www.CodeWeavers.com.