MacGourmet Deluxe 4.2.6 has been released

MacGourmet Deluxe is a recipe-management application that allows users to create, edit, and scale new recipes, or import recipes from their favorite websites, then share them via email, Facebook, and Twitter.

Features

• Chef's view for distraction-free cooking
• Add images to your recipes and to the steps, as well as to your Beer, Wine, and Cheese notes
• Use the Ingredient search or let MacGourmet suggest a recipe for you
• Free cloud account for storing and syncing on Mariner Cloud

 What's New

Version 4.2.6:

• Removed a 3rd party library that was causing a crash on startup
• Fixed the NYTimes web importer to remove html codes from the ingredients
• Updated the MyRecipes web importer to support their new web page format
• Updated the Food.com web importer to support their latest format (change in ingredients and directions)

Requirements

• Intel, 64-bit processor
• OS X 10.7 or later

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The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.8 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.8 is now available Linux and Mac OSX.

What's new in this release:

• More work towards the WineD3D command stream.
• Bug fix update of the Mono engine.
• More WebServices reader support.
• Still more Shader Model 5 support.
• Support for gradients in metafiles.
• Improved table formatting in WinHelp.
• 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 1.9.8 (total 26):

   9030  army men hangs on black screen
  17918  AvsP Preview window fails to load
  22762  Multiple DirectX10 games need Texture2D DXGI_FORMAT_R24G8_TYPELESS format support for stencil operations (Battlefield Bad Company 2, Warhammer 40k: Kill Team)
  24421  MJ's Help Diagnostics crashes on startup (app provided MonitorEnumProc callback relies on ECX = lprcMonitor)
  31662  Office 2010 font embedding when exporting to PDF
  32007  AMD Demo - Whiteout crashes with null-ish pointer read after dxgi_output_GetDisplayModeList
  34070  Simutronics 'StormFront.exe' runs out of wndproc slots (ActiveSkin control)
  34851  Multiple applications need kernel32 GetFinalPathNameByHandleA/W (64-bit Autodesk Fusion 360, Microsoft OneDrive)
  35054  Dragon Age 2 system diagnostics tool fails to recognize GeForce GT 425M
  37460  Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth (Steam) crashes on startup
  39444  Fifa 2005 Demo version - black and flashing screen
  39573  GImageX v2.1.1 (gui for ImageX tool from Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit) crashes on unimplemented function wimgapi.dll.WIMCreateFile
  39605  GImageX v2.1.1 crashes with unimplemented function wimgapi.dll.WIMGetMountedImages
  39657  Tencent QQ 7.6  crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.PsRemoveLoadImageNotifyRoutine
  39730  FillRect() confuses 16bit brush handles with color constants
  39796  SCP Containment Breach page fault
  39863  Microsoft .NET Runtime Optimization Service 2.x terminates prematurely due to failure to hook up registry notifier ('RegNotifyChangeKeyValue' must treat NTSTATUS 'STATUS_PENDING' as success)
  39911  dxd9 PresentationInterval not propagated on device Reset
  40260  wine-mono 4.6 crash when starting .net app - SIGSEGV (APB Reloaded)
  40282  mIRC 7.43 options dialog does not accept focus / user input
  40286  Geforce 980 maxwell card is not properly detected
  40389  cmd.exe (native): Unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetConsoleAliasExesLengthW
  40396  Windows SDK DirectWrite sample crashes on uninitialized parameter
  40397  Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Battle March Demo needs unimplemented function sfc.dll.SRSetRestorePoint
  40406  Doom 4 requires bcrypt RNG provider
  40414  VirtualDub 1.10.4 crashes when attempting to play video with Directx9/11 backend

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Run 64bit Wine 1.9.7 on your Mac OSX system with Wineskin WS9Wine

You can now run 64bit WineHQ Wine 2.21 on your Mac OSX system with Wineskin WS9Wine keep in mind this is kinda sorta beta but fun none the less...

Update 01/06/2018

I updated the link to the latest Wine Staging 2.21 OSX 64 bit release...

I just repackaged for Wineskin, the 64bit engines taken from here...

wine-staging-2.21-osx64...

I made a test installing 7-zip x86 and 7-zip x64 and it install them automatically in their appropriate folders as happens in windows x64 O.S.:

Well, seeing the launch screen of FO4 is definitely some progress. :-)

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The WineHQ Wine maintenance release 1.8.2 is now available for Linux and Mac OSX

The #WineHQ #Wine maintenance release 1.8.2 is now available for #Linux and #Mac #OSX.

What's new in this release:

• Various bug fixes.
• Small translation updates.

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 1.8.2 (total 32):

  12652  Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 fails to launch (number of quality levels for D3DMULTISAMPLE_NONMASKABLE multiple-sample type must not exceed 8)
  13683  Ultima IX: Mouse pointer missing when reading books, under inventory
  14617  Multiple Visual Basic 5/6 applications using ActiveX components depend on Standard OLE Types Typelib which is missing from 'olepro32.dll'
  15473  Adobe After Effects 4 crashes on startup
  25086  Multiple games and applications need kernel32.GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx implementation (CPU-Z 1.72, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Adobe CC 2015, Kontakt 5)
  30687  Powerpoint 2003/2007: embedded video play/pause on click no longer works
  32827  Legrand XlPro 3 (MFC app) crashes on startup (failure to load registry-free COM servers via app hook, 'OleCreate' must ignore HRESULT of 'IOleObject::GetMiscStatus')
  33787  IE8 crashes on new tab
  33988  Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - Crashes with a page fault
  34174  MinGW installer 0.5-beta-20120426-1 fails to process log files (sharing violation on temp file used for piped output)
  34318  Multiple games and applications need ntdll.dll.EtwRegisterTraceGuidsW (Process Hacker 2.x, Far Cry 4)
  35187  Jade Empire Special Edition configuration tool always resetting video settings
  36013  bleem! 1.4 (PlayStation emulator) fails on startup, complaining with 'Not enough memory to load program!'
  37115  Calling ReadFile from WINBASEAPI (WinBase.h) with zero read length causes hang
  37288  Not implemented feature System.Drawing.Pen.ResetTransform()
  37536  Native MSVCP120.dll override requires implementation of msvcr120.dll._W_Gettnames (Desura client)
  37556  CompareStringW should abort on the first nonmatching character to avoid invalid memory access.
  38314  Mouse Wheel doesn't work for Jagged Alliance 2 version 1.13 (it uses MOUSEHOOKSTRUCTEX)
  39591  Crimzon Clover: Page fault on launch
  39838  Wreckfest Server: Crashes at startup, unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx & SetConsoleScreenBufferInfoEx
  39866  XIIZeal (steam) immediately exits on start
  39875  Starcraft can't see Direct Cable Connection games hosted on another computer
  39878  Diablo II does not start on 64bit system with more than 2GB VRAM cards
  39908  SuperTux 0.3.5a crashes on startup, needs msvcr120.dll.strtof
  40021  IDEA v1.7 fails to start
  40053  Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13 (三國志13) fails to start
  40083  Heroes of the Storm Freezes/Crashes after its recent updates
  40129  MSI Reading and Writing Behaves differently than Windows
  40147  Assertion 'm->state == STATE_PASSIVE' failed at pulse/mainloop.c:827 on starting Skype 7.18.0.112
  40201  EccoPro only works on Wine 1.6.2
  40204  Steam client fails to start with UmePlus font installed, when running in dwrite mode
  40222  IMalloc(Spy)::Free nullptr

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Experimental 64 bit Wine OS X packages ready for testing

Hi all,

Recently there were multiple requests to provide experimental OS X 64 bit packages. I decided to give it a try and updated our build system and cross compiling tool-chain during the last days. Luckily the whole idea turned out to be less difficult than I thought, and I can now present you the first 64-bit Wine packages for testing. It would be great to have some testers to find out if I made a mistake during the packaging and to evaluate how good the OS X 64 bit support already works, despite the GS segment / TEB problem.

You can find the Wine-Staging 2.21 development build. I didn't use the WineHQ url because those packages are really in a very early stage, so I would like to have some more testers first before we push it to the users. The pkg installer will now provide you with an option to enable 64 bit support.

Regards,
Michael Müller

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Uneeq Company Launches Awesome Mac Bundle 3

Uneeq Company Launches Awesome Mac Bundle 3

Minneapolis, MN - April 10, 2016 - Uneeq Company, Inc.today launched an incredible bundle of award-winning, diverse Mac software. 8 apps, with a combined retail value of $223.00, only for $23.95.

Included in the Awesome Mac Bundle 3 are:
- RapidWeaver
- MenuBar Stats
- MenuBar Rearranger
- StoryMill
- Mac Backup Guru
- Concealer
- PhotoMill
- DupHunter

The Uneeq Mac Bundle is immediately available...

About Uneeq Company Founded in 2015 as a online marketplace of unique computer hardware, software and tech gadgets. Uneeq is focused EXCLUSIVELY on technology - a place where visitors know that all they will see are carefully selected products that are a combination of quality and uniqueness.The company's goal is to help software developers and hardware/tech gadget manufacturers reach a broader audience and at the same time help users find the best or most uneeq software and hardware/tech gadgets on the planet. Uneeq is a pioneer in bringing unique products to the marketplace and in located in Minneapolis, MN and Denver, CO USA. The company is privately held. For more information about Uneeq, see www.uneeqco.com, or follow us on Twitter @uneeqcompany or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/uneeqcompany/

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The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.7 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.7 is now available Linux and Mac OSX.

What's new in this release:

• More work towards the WineD3D command stream.
• More support for Shader Model 5 shaders.
• C++ exception handling on x86-64.
• Support for Windows-style static import libraries.
• Performance fixes in the XML writer.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

 Bugs fixed in 1.9.7 (total 42):

  10063  wineconsole run fail on korean locale.
  10156  oleidl.h has OLECONTF_ONLYUSER misspelled
  12400  Display problems in Indiana Jones and The Emperor's Tomb with vertex shader enabled
  15537  Game "PURE" shows black screen
  19081  Force closing winhlp32 without a file loaded pops up an error dialog (appinstall)
  19171  Powerpoint viewer 2003 & 2007 show weird characters (appinstall)
  19538  Microsoft Publisher 2007 and 2010 crash when opening documents/templates (TSF manager 'ITextStoreACPSink' must support QI with 'IID_ITextStoreACPServices')
  19585  Water is red in Settlers: Heritage of Kings demo
  20695  Cannot scroll documents being compared in winmerge
  26767  U-he Tyrell, Uhbik and ACE vst plugins: GUI Knob bug (image files files not being sorted correctly)
  26942  CSPRO 4 editing : context menu on grid header not working properly
  26978  tokenadmin.exe crash : Unimplemented function winscard.dll.SCardListReadersA
  28172  Civilization II crashes on startup
  29319  Internet Explorer 8 fails to start an InPrivate Browsing session
  29979  ElsterFormular crashes when trying to print already sent income tax return
  30488  IE8 shows corrupted previews on the quick tabs screen
  31393  Nvidia force antialiasing no longer works
  32347  Alien8 and Head Over Heels crash when window is moved partly off-screen
  35092  Multiple 64-bit applications need __CxxFrameHandler implementation (Ableton Live 9.1, Adobe Cloud apps)
  35711  Winelib: compile error in wincon.h if NOGDI is defined before #include
  36136  oleaut32/tests/vartest.c test shows a couple leaks with valgrind
  36297  valgrind shows uninitialized memory in msxml3/tests/domdoc.c
  36383  valgrind shows several uninitialized values in ddraw_CreateSurface() in ddraw/tests/dsurface.c
  36748  valgrind shows two possible leaks in d3drm/tests/d3drm.c
  38347  Canon PIXMA MP495 driver setup needs setupapi.dll.SetupDiSetDeviceInstallParamsW
  38670  advapi32/registry tests shows several uninitialized values
  38971  Allied Telesis Smart Switch Management Utility v1.0.0.7 crashes on unimplemented function mgmtapi.dll.SnmpMgrTrapListen
  39215  Nvidia GeForce GTX960M detected as GTX470
  39435  The 64 bit mshtml:xmlhttprequest fails on Windows 8/10
  39667  dinput: MotoGP 3 demo launcher crashes on leaving key configuration dialog.
  39681  Unimplemented function crypt32.dll.CryptMsgVerifyCountersignatureEncoded
  39786  GoodSync crashes, needs oleaut32.OleLoadPictureFile
  40048  Camtasia Studio 8 : crashes on unimplemented function dwmapi.dll.DwmSetPresentParameters
  40081  CLM Explorer needs fontsub.dll.CreateFontPackage
  40113  mshtml:xmlhttprequest regression
  40135  msvcirt.c:1386:5: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
  40182  Elder Scrolls Online: Login connection issues
  40297  Multiple app crashes in macdrv_EnumDisplayMonitors
  40304  EveHQ2 crashes with builtin gdiplus
  40306  Overexposed/wrong gamma? on The Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky SC
  40319  VerbAce Dictionary does not install correctly
  40331  The Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky SC crashes on start with runtime error R6025

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Q4Wine 1.3.0 has been released for Linux and OSX

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

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

 General features are:

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

Version changes since v1.3
Added:

• Taiwan translation (thx 2 Jeff Huang);
• Use icons from the system icon theme where possible BUG-22;
• Replace default raster icons with SVG analogs BUG-21;
• Extend App icons zoom sizes up to 512px BUG-21;
• Allow to choose .svg and .svgz images for icons BUG-21;
• Add an app option to switch default/ambiance-light/ambiance-dark icon BUG-21;
• Use ISO country codes for translation files (required for: pootle, gentoo ebuild);
• Use native language name for language selection;

Fixed:

• WineLibs paths are no longer strictly required BUG-68;
• Process explorer is broken BUG-70;

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Sourceforge Community Choice Project of the Month Wine

For our April “Community Choice” Project of the Month, the community elected Wine, an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Marcus Meissner, longtime developer of Wine, shared his thoughts about the project’s history, purpose, and direction.

SourceForge (SF): Tell me about the Wine project please.
Marcus Meissner (MM): The Wine project was launched with the goal to run Windows applications on the Linux operating system and also to provide a porting environment for Windows applications to Linux.

As it was launched around 1993 these were mostly Windows 3.1 applications.

SF: What made you start this?
MM: We started this project because a commercial vendor (WABI) alternative has shown it feasible to do and we wanted to provide an opensource implementation.

SF: Has the original vision been achieved?
MM: Yes, its original vision has been achieved after 15 years of development we had declared a Wine 1.0 release in 2008.
It took very long as Windows itself is a moving target.
Various commercial products embed Wine or are actually Wine in a commercial offering. Nearly every Linux user [has] heard of Wine.

Full interview
 

Codeweavers CrossOver 15.1.0 for Linux and Mac OSX has been released

I am delighted to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver 15.1.0 for both Mac OSX and Linux.  CrossOver 15.1.0 has important bug fixes for both Mac and Linux users.

Mac customers with active support entitlements will be upgraded to CrossOver 15.1.0 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 :

 15.1.0 CrossOver - March 31, 2016

• Mac OS X:
  • Improved some confusing behavior in CrossOver's Software Installer.
  • Fixed a bug where CrossOver's Software Installer would hang while looking for compatible bottles.
  • Improved our resilience to custom Python installations. We now refrain from loading custom Python module installed in system directories, which prevents crashes when incompatible modules are present.
  • Improved security for Sparkle updates.
• General Improvements
  • Fixed a problem initializing some fonts with dwrite, which could cause Steam to fail.
  • Fixed a bug in setting CrossOver's anti-virus scanner from a configuration file.
• Application Support:
  • Fixed a bug which caused Heroes of the Storm to freeze.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented login to World of Warcraft.
  • Fixed some graphical problems in Alekhine's Gun on Intel graphics hardware.
  • Fixed a bug which caused Microsoft Excel to hang when accepting non-English input via an Input Method Editor.

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Vineyard Wine Configuration Application for Linux has been released

Wine version handling, better 64-bit support and bug-fixes!

Vineyard for Ubuntu and Linux has seen some development during the past few weeks and has received bug-fixes and new features! Some of the more advanced functionality – that was previously only supported by editing the wrapper.cfg file – is now easily accessible!

Here’s a list of some the most visible changes:

• Creating a prefix has been overhauled:
  • You can now choose between creating a 64-bit or 32-bit prefix.
  • A specific version of Wine can be selected to be used for the prefix.
  • Installed versions of Wine are auto-detected (looks through $PATH, /opt and PlayOnLinux folders).
  • Progress indication works (finally).
• 64-bit support is now auto-detected from the Wine version.
• The main tab now shows which Wine binaries/version and arch (64/32-bit) is used.
• The “Run executable” tool works again for .exe files in modern distros.
• Added newer versions of MS Visual C++ to install list.
• Launching a terminal in a prefix now works correctly again.
• The menu icon has been changed to the modern gtk menu icon.

And since a picture is worth a thousand words:

New builds in the PPA

I’ve overhauled the packaging of Vineyard, and we now have builds back up for all LTS (long term support) Ubuntu releases going back to 12.04 (Precise) as well as for 15.10 (Wily) and 16.04 (Xenial). 16.04 deprecated the python-support package in favor of dh-python (in line with Debian), so Vineyard can now be built using both.

The name of the vineyard-testing PPA has also been changed to “PPA for Vineyard” as it really is the current stable PPA; the link is the same, so there’s no need to change your APT configuration.

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Wine Staging 1.9.6 has been released with Vulkan support

We are happy to announce the release of Wine Staging 1.9.6. This version adds support for Vulkan and fixes for various other bugs.

This release adds a first version of a Vulkan wrapper to make the Vulkan API accessible to applications running in Wine. The work was started by Erich E. Hoover and later finished by other Wine Staging maintainers. The code translates the Windows specific surface extensions to the corresponding X11 / XCB extensions and passes the remaining functions on the host Vulkan library. Although this seems to be an easy task on first sight, there are various pitfalls that make this wrapper more complicated than you might think. While the Vulkan API is almost binary compatible in 64 bit (except the differences in the calling convention), properly translating Vulkan calls on 32 bit turned out to be a bit difficult.

The biggest problem on 32-bit is caused by alignment differences when using 64 bit integers in structures. On Windows a 64 bit integer is aligned on a 8 byte memory address, while compilers on most other systems only align them on a 4 byte boundary. Passing such a structure without conversion to the host library would cause problems and eventually lead to a crash. As the Vulkan API contains more than 120 structures, we had to spent a lot of time to implement structure and array conversions, which make the 32-bit version slightly slower than the 64-bit version. The final implementation adds about 10.000 lines of code to the Wine Staging code base.

Although this is the first beta version, we are happy to say that this version already passes all (~80300) Khronos Vulkan conformance tests (32 + 64 bit) when using a compliant driver on the host system. We also tested the windows version of the game "The Talos Principle" and various samples from the LunarG SDK and so far, we aren't aware of any bugs. If you still encounter any issues, feel free to open a bug report. Here is a screenshot showing The Talos Principle running in Wine Staging using the Vulkan option:
 

Before talking about the smaller additions, there is another important announcement regarding this release. We are aware that a big group of people uses Wine Staging because of the CSMT (command-stream multi-threading) patch-set, and we are glad to see that there is again (slow, but steady) progress to include this feature in the development version of Wine. The whole process also has a downside though. Various design goals have been changed during the up-streaming process and we are currently not aware of any fully functional patch-set, which provides all CSMT features. So far the multi-threading part, which contains the actual performance improvement, is not upstream yet and the remaining patches are getting more and more incompatible. Working around all those problem (which we did in the last releases) is not possible in the long term, and we therefore decided to disable CSMT support in this release. If you depend on this feature, you should not update to Wine Staging 1.9.6. The feature might be available in future versions again, so don't forget to check the release notes.

As mentioned at the beginning, we also added several smaller fixes. There are several patches to improve the compatibility with Python 3.5 as well as patches to improve Wines gdiplus.dll implementation. Here is the usual list of all changes, without those which already have been accepted upstream:

• Do not update iosb.Status after FSCTL_PIPE_LISTEN call (Python 3.5)
• Implement GdipCreateMetafileFromStream (Captvty v3, Wine Bug #40325)
• Implement support for WICPixelFormat32bppGrayFloat (SlovoEB 2.1, Wine Bug #36517)
• Fake success in dwmapi.DwmSetWindowAttribute function (Epic Games Launcher)
• Implement support for Vulkan (Wine Bug #40164)
• Fix pointer to custom dialog control data (Wine Bug #40303)
• Populate CA certificate store in registry (Python 3.5)
• Fix handling of GetOverlappedResult when status remains STATUS_PENDING (Python 3.5)
• Implement semi-stub for ws2_32 DisconnectEx (Python 3.5)
• Implement wuauserv dummy service (Python 3.5 installer)
• Fix handling of INTERNET_INVALID_PORT_NUMBER in HttpOpenRequestW (Wine Bug #40169)
• Implement windowscodecs.WICCreateBitmapFromSection(Ex) (Paprika Recipe Manager, Wine Bug #40273)
• Implement a better stub for IPicture::SaveAsFile (JawsEditor, Wine Bug #8532)
• Implement query operation in reg.exe (Wine Bug #24017)

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CodeWeavers CrossOver can now run Steam on Android Remix

James Ramey the President of CodeWeavers has posted a short video showing CrossOver running Steam on Android Remix at this years GDC 2016 ( Game Developers Conference ) that was recently held in San Francisco USA.

James also posted on his Facebook account, "Our company, CodeWeavers, with the help of Jide Technology was able to demonstrate Steam running on Android. Gamers will be able to play their PC based games on Android devices. It's cutting edge if nothing else."

Back on October 9th 2015 I posted about CrossOver and Wine coming to Android maybe with this news a preview release is soon approaching.

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Προγράµµατα Windows στο Linux

Με το Crossover, θα έχετε τη δυνατότητα να εγκαταστήσετε λογισµικό που έχει σχεδιαστεί για Windows, στο Linux.

Οι λόγοι για τους οποίους ενδεχοµένως κάποιοι χρήστες θέλετε να τρέχετε προγράµµατα των Windows στο Linux είναι πολλοί και οι περισσότεροι σχετίζονται µε το γεγονός ότι µπορεί να έχετε ήδη αγοράσει τα προγράµµατα αυτά και θέλετε να τα χρησιµοποιείτε τακτικά. Δεν αποκλείεται να έχετε κάποιο εξειδικευµένο κοµµάτι λογισµικού που θέλετε να τρέχετε στη δουλειά σας, το οποίο λειτουργεί µόνο σε Windows. Επίσης, το gaming µε το Linux δεν είναι το πιο εύκολο πράγµα, εποµένως καλό θα ήταν να έχετε υπόψη σας έναν αξιόπιστο τρόπο που σας επιτρέπει να εγκαταστήσετε λογισµικό που έχει γραφτεί για Windows και να το τρέξετε κανονικά στη διανοµή Linux που έχετε στο σύστηµά σας.

Το πρόγραµµα Crossover είναι ένας από τους καλύτερους τρόπους που έχετε στη διάθεσή σας για να τρέχετε Windows προγράµµατα στο Linux. Διατίθεται επί πληρωµή, ωστόσο µπορείτε να το δοκιµάσετε για µία περίοδο 15 ηµερών προτού προβείτε στην αγορά του. Έχει φτάσει στην έκδοση 15 και θα το βρείτε εδώ.

CrossOver Linux 15.0.1 download

Για να χρησιµοποιήσετε την εφαρµογή, πηγαίνετε στο πεδίο downloads του site κι επιλέξτε να κατεβάσετε τη δοκιµαστική έκδοση. Θα ερωτηθείτε για τη διανοµή του Linux που χρησιµοποιείτε και στη συνέχεια θα κατέβει το αρχείο εγκατάστασης. Στη δική µας περίπτωση, είχαµε ένα σύστηµα µε Ubuntu 14.04. Κατεβαίνει το αρχείο εγκατάστασης και µετά το εκτελείτε από το Software Center της Ubuntu, προκειµένου να εγκατασταθεί το Crossover.

Αντίο, Windows...
Το Crossover µπορείτε να το τρέξετε όπως όλα τα άλλα προγράµµατα στο Linux. Ανοίγοντάς το, θα δείτε την αρχική του οθόνη, η οποία θα σας ζητήσει να πατήσετε το Install Windows programs για να βάλετε στο σύστηµά σας τα προγράµµατα των Windows που χρειάζεστε. Πατώντας το σχετικό πλήκτρο, θα εµφανιστεί µία λίστα µε όλα τα προγράµµατα και τα games που υποστηρίζονται από το Crossover Software Installer. Θα συνειδητοποιήσετε ότι οι επιλογές είναι πολλές κι ενδιαφέρουσες. Μόλις επιλέξετε το λογισµικό που θέλετε, θα κληθείτε να διαλέξετε ανάµεσα σε Installer File ή Installer Folder προκειµένου να ορίσετε πού θα εγκατασταθεί το πρόγραµµα. Μόλις είστε έτοιµοι, πατήστε το Install και θα ξεκινήσει η διαδικασία εγκατάστασης. Σε πολλές περιπτώσεις, θα παρατηρήσετε ότι µαζί µε την εγκατάσταση µίας εφαρµογής, θα γίνει και η εγκατάσταση των ανάλογων απαραίτητων γραµµατοσειρών για τα Windows, ώστε όλα να φαίνονται σωστά και στο Linux. Μόλις ολοκληρωθεί η εγκατάσταση, στην οθόνη σας θα εµφανιστεί ένα µήνυµα ενηµέρωσης. Πατήστε το πλήκτρο Κλείσιµο.

Από το κεντρικό µενού του Crossover, µπορείτε να επιλέξετε Manage Bottles από το µενού Tools, προκειµένου να θέσετε τη διαδροµή από την οποία θα ανοίγει ένα πρόγραµµα των Windows στο Linux σύστηµά σας. Τα εγκατεστηµένα προγράµµατα εµφανίζονται στα αριστερά και στα δεξιά οι εντολές και η ρύθµιση του interface σύµφωνα µε το οποίο θα τρέχει το Windows λογισµικό στον Linux υπολογιστή σας. Όλα τα προγράµµατα Windows που έχετε εγκαταστήσει, µπορούν να τρέξουν από το κεντρικό µενού του Crossover.

Σε κάθε περίπτωση, είναι σηµαντικό να έχετε πλήρη ενηµέρωση για όλα τα προγράµµατα που είναι διαθέσιµα προς εγκατάσταση στο Linux. Εδώ θα πρέπει να τονιστεί ότι δεν µπορείτε να τα τρέξετε όλα, αλλά όσα γίνονται διαθέσιµα σταδιακά. Για αυτόν τον λόγο, είναι καλό να έχετε στο Crossover τη λειτουργία του αυτόµατου update, προκειµένου να βλέπετε τι είναι διαθέσιµο κάθε φορά που θέλετε να προχωρήσετε στην εγκατάσταση κάποιου προγράµµατος στο Linux σύστηµά σας.

Χαρακτηριστικά Crossover Linux

Δυνατότητες Εγκατάσταση και εκτέλεση προγραµµάτων Windows στο Linux

Δυσκολία 6/10
Χρόνος 00:25:00
Προεκτάσεις Crossover Linux

Απαιτήσεις Λειτουργικό σύστηµα Linux Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora/Debian/RHEL, 2MB χώρος στον σκληρό, x.org µε XRender και GLX Support

ΝΑΙ Εάν έχετε κάποια µεµονωµένα προγράµµατα για Windows και τα χρειάζεστε και στο Linux.

ΟΧΙ Εάν έχετε φύγει εντελώς από τον κόσµο των Windows και δεν τα χρειάζεστε πλέον.

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Vulkan Support Is Being Worked On For Wine

Support for running Vulkan Windows programs and games under Wine is currently being developed.

There's been this bug report for the past month suggesting that Wine utilize Vulkan for its Direct3D/HLSL translations. However, that idea really is unlikely to work out as explained by Wine developer Gabríel Arthúr Pétursson. "Translating DirectX 9/10/11 or OpenGL to Vulkan commands is unlikely to bring any performance improvements over existing solutions. OpenGL and DirectX 9/10/11 drivers are already employing highly tuned heuristics and tricks to bring out the best possible performance given the limitations of these APIs."

However, Gabríel did mention in his bug comment this week that he is working on the wrapper support to allow Vulkan programs to run on Wine. "I'm currently working on implementing Vulkan support, to allow running Vulkan programs under Wine. Hopefully I should have patches available for you all to play with soon."

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The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.6 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.6 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:

• Better video card detection when using Mesa.
• Support for Shader Model 5 shaders.
• C++ exception handling 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 1.9.6 (total 32):

  17540  Zondervan Pradis 6.0 hangs due to ole32.dll.CoGetCurrentLogicalThreadId stub
  21475  TI Interactive application fails when attempting to display the TI math palette
  22533  Half-Life: Logo video rendering is wrong (msrle32 does not handle frames with 0 biClrUsed)
  25086  Multiple games and applications need kernel32.GetLogicalProcessorInformationEx implementation (CPU-Z 1.72, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Adobe CC 2015, Kontakt 5)
  28177  Adventure games from Kheops Studio hang after the logo screen (Safecracker, Destination: Treasure Island, Nostradamus: Lost Prophecy, Dracula 3, Return to Mysterious Island 2)
  29458  Explorer sometimes crashes on drag-and-drop in folders accessed from "/"
  32237  A slower speed of light: Summer 2012 version crashes after Intro
  32314  Pikachu Volleyball (English version) crashes on restart
  32827  Legrand XlPro 3 (MFC app) crashes on startup (failure to load registry-free COM servers via app hook, 'OleCreate' must ignore HRESULT of 'IOleObject::GetMiscStatus')
  33787  IE8 crashes on new tab
  34303  underlined 8 point Times New Roman text doesn't display as underlined
  35471  Telepone (MTSP FIM) needs msvcr100.dll._CreateFrameInfo
  37949  eLicenser Control Center needs msvcr80.dll.__CxxRegisterExceptionObject
  39239  ole32:compobj fails if privileges not high enough
  39278  Multiple DirectX 10 games crash on unimplemented function d3d10_1.dll.D3D10CreateDeviceAndSwapChain1 (Assassin's Creed)
  39461  Garmin Homeport 2.2.9 crashes on unimplemented function msvcr90.dll.__CxxRegisterExceptionObject
  39510  EZCastPro 1.4/1.5 crashes on unimplemented function USER32.dll.QueryDisplayConfig
  39577  Fallout 4 needs WINED3DFMT_R11G11B10_FLOAT render target
  39674  3Dmark03, 05, 06 not started "System Info Error"
  39797  The suffering does not start, needs wmasf.dll
  39878  Diablo II does not start on 64bit system with more than 2GB VRAM cards
  39918  Mail.Ru GameCenter installer does not work
  40115  ole32:compobj regression (privilege issue)
  40147  Assertion 'm->state == STATE_PASSIVE' failed at pulse/mainloop.c:827 on starting Skype 7.18.0.112
  40190  7z fails at enumerating network places
  40201  EccoPro only works on Wine 1.6.2
  40221  Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 needs user32.GetGestureConfig
  40222  IMalloc(Spy)::Free nullptr
  40246  Please document WINEBUILD in the winegcc manpage
  40253  Build regression: Can't remove fonts: is a directory (--with-wine64, shared wow64)
  40287  steamwebhelper crashes in Windows 7 mode
  40312  Please look for builtin *.fon fonts in fontdir

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Mariner Software is having a 50% off spring sale

Mariner Software has a huge 50% off spring sale going on this and next week this is your chance save 50% off their great word editing, blogging, journal and recipe software.

Clear Insight Products has a really nice page setup about this sale and and Mariner Software. You should take the time and check the site out.

Because I have been a fan of this software for so long Mariner sent me a promo code and have allowed me to pass it on to my Clear Insight Productions connections. 

This promotion is for a limited time though. At 11:59pm Central time on Sunday, March 27th 2016, the sale will come to an end. So visit the eStore and use PRN6 when you check out to receive your discount.​

“One of the best blog editors we’ve seen.”
MacWorld Magazine

"Really like this app a lot and always looking forward the next revision with its new features. I have been happily using MacJournal since the beginning. Sometimes I even get up to using it half of the days which is a lot for me."
Howard R. Lieberman
Chairman CEO
Silicon Valley Innovation Institute

"This is a thank you for a superb product. I am writing more than I have done for quite some time. It is journal writing and getting my thoughts down in words. I love that I can specify different types of journals and make sub journals. It is so easy and everything is in one place. This is so wonderful and everything is dated. I really appreciate the convenience and ease of using MacJournal. Later I may take a look at your stuff for writers. Thanks again."
Bicki Smith
MacJournal user

Mariner Software Paperless 2 review

Mariner Software’s Paperless 2 is a good replacement for typical software that comes bundled with most scanners. For just a little extra investment, you’ll get a wide range of additional features. You can create a database for every document imaginable with Paperless. From receipts and bills to your five-year-old’s drawings, Paperless stores and organizes them all.

Paperless is compatible with most scanners but Mariner Software highly recommends the use of Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100, ScanSnap S1300 or ScanSnap S1500 scanners. Mariner Software is an authorized partner of Fujitsu and Paperless is designed to work seamlessly with Fujitsu ScanSnap line.

Paperless stands out for numerous of reasons and it makes organizing papers as easy as it could get. The software has a good usability. The large graphical icons at the top of the toolbar give you an access to all of the most significant functions. The main window of the software has three columns. There is a file browser on the left, document image in the middle at the top, list of documents below it and the details about the currently selected document on the right.

You can store almost any type of document such as pdf, web archives, emails, word, excel, RTF, JPEG and TIFF. Conveniently, you can scan documents directly to Paperless or import existing files from the hard drive. The scanned documents can be placed in files which you have to set out in advanced. Setting up the files for scanned documents is a fairly easy and quick.

Paperless has OCR (Optical character recognition) function which recognizes the text on the document and adds it to the Details Window. Your own notes and tags can also be added to the document. Paperless does not support reconstruction of the document after OCR. This function is available in more expensive Nuance’s Paperport software.

After scanning you can crop and rotate the documents in the scan dialogue. However, this can’t be done after the documents have been imported. It is possible to change the order of the existing pages as well as split and merge documents.

All documents can be viewed by the scanning date or by the collection. Paperless also has a calendar view. Of any collection you can create expense chart, table, pie or contact report.
A digital document is accepted by the IRS according to ruling Rev. Proc. 97-22. Therefore all your legal documents can be archived with Paperless.

Pros:
+Affordable price
+Works seamlessly with Fujitsu ScanSnap line
+Has all the necessary features for a typical user

Cons:
-OCR does not reconstruct documents

You can use any of these 4 coupons in the Mariners online store and save between 5% and 25% off the retail price of new purchases or one of the 5 pack bundles.

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Doom 2016 Alpha running on Linux with Wine

The WINE developers and community have typically been hard at work to fix issues, particularly with big AAA games. Usually with a bit of a wait before we see enough supported libraries for the title to function properly. Now it appears a Linux user has already managed to get the latest Doom Alpha running on WINE.

Doom currently has a closed alpha version available a Reddit user has it running on Linux, making it easier than expected. To the point there nothing really particular was done to get the game working, including excellent frame-rate on an Nvidia GTX 970. With the only things missing is the lack of Vsync. Not too shabby.

I obtained an Alpha copy of Doom with the intent of seeing how well it runs on WINE. I was a little concerned with performance and stability considering that it’s a 64-bit-only game (installed to the 32-bit folder, though), but this has proved to be a non issue. Since I’m too pleased with how well this worked, here are the major points:

• Installed flawlessly using WINE Staging 1.9.1, but this should work with any version of WINE currently shipping with popular distros, seeing as DirectX crap-ware is not in the picture
• Ran without any configuration (no DLL overrides, etc…)
• Buttery smooth
• Worked at Ultra settings with my GTX 970
• Only issue was the lack of a VSYNC setting

So essentially, to use Doom 2016 on Linux with native performance, you will need to do the following:

1. Set up a clean 64-Bit WINE prefix.
2. Run the installer
3. Install steam
4. (Not always needed) fix DirectWrite issues with Steam (lol)
5. Play Doom

• i7-4790k
• GTX970 4GB
• 16GB DDR3-2400
• 4.4.0-pf5turbokoopa #5 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 23 00:02:03 CST 2016 (linux-pf)
• WINE 1.9.1

So as it stands, the new engine has been optimized rather nicely, seeing more advanced hardware requirements are expected for Linux. This if not a guarantee that the final version of the new Doom will just as easily, but it does give the community hope.

Doom will be released on May 13, 2016 for Windows PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

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