The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.13 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.13 is now available for Linux and Mac.

The Wine development release 1.9.13 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 47.
• More Shader Model 5 support in Direct3D.
• Unicode data updated to Unicode 9.0.0.
• Improvements to GDI paths and metafiles.
• More progress towards the Direct3D command stream.
• Joystick support improvements on Mac OS X.
• 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 1.9.13 (total 34):

  12851  LEGO Rock Raiders amstream crash
  17524  K-Meleon 1.5.2 crashes on startup
  17887  Poor graphics (black squares) observed using Many faces of Go program
  18745  64-bit Mortal Kombat X crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetLargePageMinimum
  21817  Demoscene 4K demos can't cope with Wine builtin d3dx9_xx dll functions being forwarded (Elevated, fr-057)
  22819  Some applications like Heroes of Might and Magic 2 display loopback.
  23725  Slow typewriting in IBExpert SQL Editor
  25458  Saints Row 2 (Steam) crashes when entering game.
  34046  GUIMiner crashes when trying to start mining.
  35228  RC Cars hangs when music changes
  35439  Blackguards demo (non-Steam) shows black screen after launch
  35847  wined3d does not recognize cards newer than GTX 770
  37128  Clang: Uninitialized variable in a condition in atl_ax.c
  37271  Applications get IP address of 127.12.34.56 when lo0 is up on OSX
  38962  expr.c:234 and 235 attempted computation of 1 << 31 should be 1u << 31
  39172  Fonts rendered as black blobs in StartWrite 6.0
  39185  GetPath fails to return the path when using Metafile DC.
  40310  Elder Scrolls Online D3D11 needs d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11CompileFromMemory
  40404  Subterrain crashes on loading with wine: Call from 0x7b43c49c to unimplemented function d3dcompiler_47.dll.D3DLoadModule, aborting
  40484  Motocross Madness broken geometry on Intel card (works on LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE)
  40496  Copy/Past from file to registration bar not working
  40540  ReadIntervalTimeout is ignored if there is data in the buffer when ReadFile is called and no data arrives after that
  40581  Regression: dsound input recording from microphone lags with 2 seconds delay
  40747  Microsoft Expression Web 4 crashes on startup, needs gdiplus.dll.GdipGetImageAttributesAdjustedPalette
  40754  GOG Galaxy crashes with unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll._lock_locales
  40755  GOG Galaxy crashes with unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll._lock_locales
  40756  GOG Galaxy crashes with unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll._calloc_base
  40765  Python 3.5.1 interpreter crashes, needs __fpe_flt_rounds
  40770  Nvidia GeForce GT 730 not recognized properly
  40775  Emergency 3 crashes after starting
  40790  Necrovision demo crashes with unimplemented function d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10FilterTexture
  40796  Python 3.5.1 interpreter crashes when importing pyqtSlot
  40806  AMD TressFX11 demo crashes with unimplemented function d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11GetImageInfoFromMemory
  40853  WeatherSmart 1.8 needs hid.dll.HidD_GetAttributes

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The WineHQ Wine stable release 1.8.3 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine stable release 1.8.3 is now available for Linux and Mac.

What's new in this release:

• Various bug fixes.
• A lot of NVidia cards added to the GPU description table.
• Updates to the National Language Support files.

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 1.8.3 (total 54):

  10063  wineconsole run fail on korean locale.
  17257  TeX2Word will not install
  20695  Cannot scroll documents being compared in winmerge
  23768  winhelp: Some images not shown in certain 16-bit Help files
  24421  MJ's Help Diagnostics crashes on startup (app provided MonitorEnumProc callback relies on ECX = lprcMonitor)
  25790  WM_SETTEXT handler for the user32 buttons generates WM_CTLCOLOR* inconsistent with Windows user32
  26978  tokenadmin.exe crash : Unimplemented function winscard.dll.SCardListReadersA
  27680  Multiple 64-bit applications crash on startup (violation of the Windows 64-bit ABI, stack pointer (RSP) must be 16-byte aligned when making a call to Win64 API)
  28082  OCCT Perestroïka needs hal.dll.READ_PORT_ULONG
  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)
  28825  Mystic Diary - Haunted Island: Multiple sprite-related bugs in hidden object scenes
  29979  ElsterFormular crashes when trying to print already sent income tax return
  31662  Office 2010 font embedding when exporting to PDF
  32451  Multiple GOG.com installer bundles show a broken/unresponsive dialog window during installation (installer process running out of wndproc slots)
  32979  Metal Gear Solid Crash
  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
  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
  36031  GeForce 9700M incorrectly detected as 9400
  37087  Gothic 2 english demo fails with 'Conflict: a hook process was found. Please deactivate all Antivirus and Anti-Trojan programs and debuggers.'
  38102  Process Hacker 2.x needs winsta.dll.WinStationEnumerateW
  39092  Regression introduced with xaudio2_8
  39215  Nvidia GeForce GTX960M detected as GTX470
  39543  Multiple games and applications crash on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.FreeUserPhysicalPages (Microsoft Office 2007 diagnosis service, Eden Eternal)
  39657  Tencent QQ 7.6  crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.PsRemoveLoadImageNotifyRoutine
  39667  dinput: MotoGP 3 demo launcher crashes on leaving key configuration dialog.
  39681  Unimplemented function crypt32.dll.CryptMsgVerifyCountersignatureEncoded
  39730  FillRect() confuses 16bit brush handles with color constants
  39759  Add support for detect  Nvidia TITAN Black in wine3d/device list
  39786  GoodSync crashes, needs oleaut32.OleLoadPictureFile
  39796  SCP Containment Breach page fault
  39918  Mail.Ru GameCenter installer does not work
  39940  Stars! tooltips have wrong background color
  40048  Camtasia Studio 8 : crashes on unimplemented function dwmapi.dll.DwmSetPresentParameters
  40081  CLM Explorer needs fontsub.dll.CreateFontPackage
  40108  kernel32:process regression
  40135  msvcirt.c:1386:5: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
  40244  PostThreadMessage with WM_NOTIFY message should succeed
  40246  Please document WINEBUILD in the winegcc manpage
  40286  Geforce 980 maxwell card is not properly detected
  40297  Multiple app crashes in macdrv_EnumDisplayMonitors
  40304  EveHQ2 crashes with builtin gdiplus
  40348  Nvidia 800 series cards not detected correctly
  40389  cmd.exe (native): Unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.GetConsoleAliasExesLengthW
  40396  Windows SDK DirectWrite sample crashes on uninitialized parameter
  40456  NFS MW + NFS Carbon: Car is flying above/under the track (D3DXVec3Transform needs arguments aliasing)
  40466  Midnight Commander needs KERNEL32.dll.GetConsoleFontInfo
  40473  wine fails to compile with >=glibc-2.23
  40487  3dmark Vantage Benchmark: unimplemented functions hal.dll.READ and WRITE PORT
  40493  Prison Tycoon 4 crashes on start up needing msvcp71.dll.??$?5DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@YAAAV?$basic_istream@DU?$char_

traits@D@std@@@0@AAV10@AAC@Z
  40517  Office 2007 shows error message "Unexpected error during export" when trying to export document as PDF file
  40525  schannel:main does not recognize package version 0x400000

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Running Mac OSX and Linux in a Windows world

Many IT shops don't give a second thought to supporting Mac and Linux OSes because they're concerned with standardization. Windows is the go-to, but alternative OSes deserve some love.

Windows 10 will likely become the most used desktop operating system at some point, but Apple's Mac OS X and Linux have their purposes and places in the enterprise, too.

Many servers around the world run Linux, but on the desktop, the OS is used mainly by academics, researchers and developers. Amazon and Google use Linux to support many business processes, and U.S. Department of Defense employees use a Linux-based operating system on a CD or USB stick to log in to secure networks from untrusted PCs while they are away from the office.

Macs have historically been preferred by graphic designers and digital artists, and today executives and frequent travelers join that list because Macs offer better security and seamless integration with Apple iOS devices.

Pretty much everybody else uses Windows. Mac OS X accounts for less than 10% of the overall desktop market share, and Linux desktops fall into the "Other" category. They're grouped with Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and old versions of Mac OS X. It's hard to believe that systems as feature-rich and robust as the latest Ubuntu, Fedora and Mint distributions fall into the collective crumb bin of overall market share.

Advantages of Mac OS X and Linux

 

It might look like Mac OS X and Linux fill too narrow a niche for enterprise use, but they're simply underrated. They have been forced out of the mainstream as many IT shops look to standardize OSes and hardware to streamline support and maintenance.

But Mac OS X and Linux are far less susceptible to malware than Windows. OS X in particular includes code-signing to prevent most types of malware. Because Windows is the dominant desktop OS, malware creators target it much more often than any other OS. Fortifying the Windows OS and cleaning up after an attack cost IT an enormous amount of money every year.

Mac OS X and Linux are much more stable and reliable than Windows, and Linux is hands down the most forgiving of older peripherals and legacy hardware. A modern Linux distribution runs reasonably well on a computer built for Windows XP. That same computer might not be able to run Windows 10, and drivers could be a major issue. Additionally, the productivity software packages available for Mac and Linux are comparable to Microsoft Office -- and in some cases compatible with it. Linux productivity suites are usually free.

Integrating Mac and Linux clients on a Windows enterprise network

 

Windows and Macs have built-in features that provide simple file sharing across a network. Samba is a software application that allows Linux and Windows to share files and printers. It works fine on smaller networks, but is quickly outclassed or becomes impractical on large networks that run Active Directory.

Recent releases of Mac OS X and Linux work with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), which lets Mac and Linux PCs join Active Directory much like a Windows client. With the Clients for Additional Operating Systems module, IT administrators can use SCCM to discover, audit, enforce settings and push patches to Mac, Linux and Unix computers.

Admins can also use management software such as the Casper Suite from JAMF Software for Mac integration, which is similar to SCCM. Active Directory bridging is available from a number of companies -- such as Centrify and BeyondTrust -- to manage Linux and Mac systems in a Windows environment.

Another option to support Macs is to run OS X Server on the network. It doesn't include Active Directory components, as of this writing, but an admin can use the server's Profile Manager to set Mac policies based on Active Directory groups. The Mac clients served by OS X Server can communicate with Windows clients, share files, share printers and more.

Regarding email and Microsoft Exchange, Mac OS X's Mail and Calendar can connect, but will run with fewer hiccups if IMAP and POP3 are enabled in Exchange. Several Linux email clients provide support for Exchange.

Running Windows programs on Mac OS X and Linux

 

Companies that want to run Windows applications on certain Mac or Linux systems can look to the free open source program Wine for help. It's a compatibility layer that can run Windows applications on other OSes. CodeWeaver CrossOver Linux is a similar option for Linux distributions. Admins can also install a virtual machine, such as Oracle VirtualBox or Parallels Desktop for Mac, and then run a Windows OS and associated applications with full network connectivity.

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Vineyard now has CrossOver support Wine Staging features and more

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 – Vineyard now supports CodeWeavers CrossOver – New support has been added for Wine-Staging !

Here are some of the changes from the last two weeks of development:

New Features:

• Support for CrossOver.
• Auto-detection of supported Wine features.
• Support for a number of Staging features and common patches:
  • CSMT (both dll and patched versions, ie. Wine-Staging, CrossOver and custom Wine versions are all supported)
  • DXVA2 VAAPI
  • EAX Emulation
• “Run in a terminal” option when launching Windows executables (with vineyard-launcher).

Fixes and Improvements:

• Safer detection of installed Wine versions.
• Support for user installed Wine versions in $HOME/.local/share/wineversions.
• Better support for launching programs from desktop shortcuts.
• Updated the Windows version information to match the latest Wine releases.
• Added support for 64bit Windows XP configuration.

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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New WineHQ 64 bit Wine OS X binary packages available

This is a updated post to the original post located here, the link in the original doesn't point to the latest 64 bit WineHQ Wine and Wine-Staging binary builds for Apple OS X this article updates the download links to the latest builds.

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 latest test packages at https://repos.wine-staging.com/macosx/i686/ 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. The files of the 32-bit and 64-bit build are merged during the installation depending on your choice. Please test both options to ensure that a pure 32-bit build also still works as expected.

The wine devel package is a pure Wine build without any additional patches applied, while the staging package contains a small hack to work around at least some of the GS segment issues (it fixed 64 bit VLC and TS3 for me). If you stumble upon any differences between both packages (besides the staged bugs), feel free to tell them to me. This way I can find out how much the hack breaks ;-). Anyway, I am looking forward to your feedback.

Regards,
Michael Müller

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Status update for Microsoft Office 2013 on Linux with CodeWeavers CrossOver

Back on November 12th 2015 I posted about Microsoft Office 2013 running on Linux with CodeWeavers upcoming CrossOver 15 release. Unfortunately, I got a little ahead of myself and thought Office 2013 would be supported by now. But due to the complexity of supporting such a large piece of software like a office suite it's taken a little longer then what I expected.

Here is a quick overview of Microsoft Office 2013 status on Linux once again.

  Microsoft Office 2013 (code named Office 15) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016. It includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or a later version of either. A version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices. Mainstream support ends on April 10, 2018. Extended support ends on April 11, 2023.

Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11, 2012, when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing. Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on January 29, 2013. This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including OneDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, Yammer and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.

Microsoft Office 2013 comes in twelve different editions, including three editions for retail outlets, two editions for volume licensing channel, five subscription-based editions available through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.


So, What has changed sense November 2015? Office 2013 can now log into MSN and download templates just like on Windows. DirectWrite has also seen many improvements over the past six months. It looks like most of the UI bugs have been fixed now. The installation and overall stability will have improved and I would hazard to say the registration has improved.

Carom Wills the Quality Assurance representative at CodeWeavers posted a few days back a screen-shot of Word 2013 logged into MSN, just look at the top right corner and you will see Cody Weaver as the user.

 Specs :

Distro : Ubuntu Linux 14.04.3 LTS
CrossOver Release : 15.2 pre release build
Microsoft Office : Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013

You can go to MSDN and download Microsoft Office Professional Plus and get a free 60 day trial here. After you have registered and got the download it's time to run the install with CrossOver Linux 15 on your Linux Computer. Keep in mind this will install and run on any of the popular modern Linux distributions, Ubuntu is in no way a requirement.

Word 2013 on Linux with CrossOver

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The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.12 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.12 is now available for Linux and Mac.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fix update of the Mono engine.
• Initial version of a taskbar in desktop mode.
• Fixes for right-to-left languages in Uniscribe.
• More Shader Model 4 support in Direct3D.
• Better metafile support in RichEdit.
• 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 1.9.12 (total 20):

  11898  Dance eJay Demo 7 crashes due to unimplemented interface relating to devenum
  20977  Bad hlp table rendering
  23954  Threads not allocated to multiple processors.
  26965  Dragon Age 2 demo - sound in cutscenes is muffled
  31971  mspaint.exe from windows 8 wants ntdll.WinSqmStartSession
  34557  Lemmings Revolution: can't rotate playing field
  34897  Lego Mindstorms EV3 Home Edition (.NET 4.0 app) needs msctf DocumentMgrSource_AdviseSink implementation
  37096  Problems with DC Universe Online and Virtual Desktops
  39896  Robot animations glitch in main lobby of Lego Mindstorms EV3 software
  40380  Wine should take dosbox's configuration instead of creating a new one
  40497  "Trainz: A New Era" needs msvcr120.dll.?__ExceptionPtrToBool@@YA_NPEBX@Z
  40593  wininet:http test regression (failure & timeout)
  40624  Source games make wined3d to attach incomplete texture to FBO (WINED3DFMT_NULL)
  40660  latest update Sega Genesis & Mega Drive update no longer running after May 18, 2016 update
  40662  CAPS key Not Working !!
  40691  DVDFab 9.2.4.4 pre-check FabCheck.exe executable fails, needs setupapi.dll.CM_Get_DevNode_Status
  40709  iexplore crashes when proxy enabled
  40711  Splinter Cell: Blacklist crashes at launch (needs GetVoiceDetails implementation)
  40727  ddraw tests broken with warn+heap
  40745  Python 3.5.1 interpreter crashes, needs _set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler

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The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.11 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.11 is now available Linux and Mac OSX.

What's new in this release:

• Better support for long URLs in WinInet.
• Various Direct3D 11 improvements.
• Down-mixing support in DirectSound.
• Some cosmetic improvements in desktop mode.
• 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 1.9.11 (total 21):

  25396  Safrosoft RoX freezes at start.
  33022  Starship Titanic hanging on video replay
  34052  The Witcher: Character models are sometimes invisible
  34480  Multiple games crash during attempt to write past the end of mip level, expecting contiguous mipchain allocation (League of Legends, Warlock Master of the Arcane, PSOBB)
  35415  Gómez Peer: CPU utilisation diagnostic does not work (requires kernel32.GetSystemTimes implementation)
  36556  valgrind shows a definite leak in comctl32/tests/syslink.c
  37063  NTLM EncryptMessage/DecryptMessage failure
  38137  WBaduk: "Could not obtain OLE control window handle" regression
  38257  Thief: Deadly Shadows: black squares popping up during video playback
  38286  SpinTires has error with ARB shaders enabled
  40179  Cannot insert mpg files in Powerpoint 2010
  40301  wxDatePickerCtrl (wxWidgets) generates an assert on DTM_GETRANGE message result
  40511  Application that copies files from one place to another stoped working in wine versions greater then 1.6.2
  40536  Failure to connect to server in TMUnitedForever
  40555  Black Mirror 3 demo has wrong rendering with ARB shaders enabled
  40557  KSP Trajectory Optimization Tool (MATLAB Runtime (MCR)) crashes at launch
  40594  msvcrt:heap test regression
  40614  Cisco Jabber 11.6 crashes due to missing dbghelp.dll.EnumerateLoadedModulesExW
  40618  Autodesk 123D Design needs msvcr100.dll.mbsrtowcs_s
  40659  Window with CS_OWNDC style cause DC leak when GetDC/ReleaseDC is used.
  40687  BitTorrent Sync Setup won't start, needs ncrypt.dll

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Wine Reviews is now on Apple News

Wine Reviews now has a channel on Apple News  you will need a ipod ipad or iphone with iOS 9.0 or higher. The new channel will have articles about Wine and other topics as well. Actually, Wine will be the minor subject covered in this news channel. Here is some information about Apple news and some of the news service features. Hope to see you there!

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News brings the beautiful editorial layouts and typography of print to the screen. Enjoy interactive and engaging stories, rich with photo galleries, videos, and animation. Articles are optimized for both iPhone and iPad, so you’ll have a great reading experience no matter which device you’re using.

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Explore a huge selection of topics from sources including top news organizations and indie publications. Choose the ones you want to add to your favorites so you can get the news that interests you — like business, technology, fashion, sports, and more.

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CodeWeavers CrossOver 15.1.0 on Ubuntu Linux 16.04

A Quick overview of getting CodeWeavers CrossOver 15.1.0 installed on Ubuntu Linux 16.04

Ubuntu's latest release, Xenial Xerus, has been out since April 21.

The latest long term stable release has been working for our testing purposes since the day it dropped but we had to get CrossOver 15.1.0 installed first. In this release, the Ubuntu Software Center is gone. It has been replaced by GNOME Software.

While this will be a positive change for the distribution, it seems Ubuntu Software has a few hiccups. While the Ubuntu Desktop Team works to resolve these problems, we would like to make sure our customers can install CrossOver.

Please download the trial version of CrossOver before starting these steps. Or, if you already have an account, please login and download CrossOver.

The easiest way to get CrossOver installed with Ubuntu 16.04 is a little terminal dancing. If you're new to Linux or Ubuntu, that is as easy as holding down the CTRL, ALT, and T keys at once to call a terminal window.



First, bring your system up to date:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Next, we like to use GDebi Package Installer to install CrossOver. Get it by typing in terminal:

sudo apt-get install gdebi

Ubuntu 16.04 is now ready to install CrossOver. In terminal, give the command:

sudo gdebi ~/Downloads/crossover_15.1.0-1.deb

Now, run CrossOver for the first time:

/opt/cxoffice/bin/crossover

On first run, CrossOver will check to see if every library it needed was installed. If not, it will again attempt to install the libraries it needs. To do this, it will open a new terminal window and prompt for administrative credentials. Please provide these credentials so CrossOver can complete the set-up process.

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The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.10 is now available for Linux and Mac

The Wine development release 1.9.10 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• High resolution ("Retina") rendering option on Mac OS X.
• More compatible directory enumeration.
• A number of C++ runtime fixes.
• Video output 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 1.9.10 (total 25):

   9532  Month calendar control uses 0=sunday for firstDayOfWeek
  13843  tooltips not working properly - message problems
  14638  Discription file of task configuration \'C:\plc.xml\' not found
  18166  dlls/ntdll/directory.c: implicit declaration of function 'getdirentries'
  20383  SetMenuInfo() with MIM_BACKGROUND not implemented
  24017  Multiple applications need 'reg.exe' 'query' operation implementation
  24916  Soulbringer: crash in D3D Hardware mode
  26268  Multiple applications need ntdll.ZwSetLdtEntries stub (kwiksupport.me, Ragnarok Online patcher)
  32056  iexplore images.google.com doesn't work
  33961  RPC: server crashes during procedure call that returns variable size array as out parameter
  34122  Multiple applications expects files returned by FindFirstFile/FindNextFile to be in alphabetical order (Civilization V with 2 expansion packs, TAGAP)
  36838  TOCA Touring Car Championship: installer copies one file from CD and then shows an error
  37090  Multiple applications crash with built-in amstream (Shogun: Total War, Medieval: Total War)
  37926  NordicBet Poker-client fails to install
  38625  Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+: incomplete text rendering
  38811  Java JRE 8 installer 'jre-8uXX-windows-i586.exe' crashes on startup (GetThreadPreferredUILanguages is a stub)
  39509  OneDrive for Business installer crashes in Win8 mode (user32.dll 'SetCoalescableTimer' stub missing)
  39940  Stars! tooltips have wrong background color
  40027  Caesar IV Demo crashes at launch
  40342  playSNOW.exe needs implementation of KERNEL32.dll.InterlockedPushListSList
  40355  HeidiSQL not starting since version 1.9.5
  40517  Office 2007 shows error message "Unexpected error during export" when trying to export document as PDF file
  40532  Microsoft Word Viewer 11.8 does not show text on file properties dialog until the text is selected
  40550  AfterEffects CS6 crashes at launch
  40562  AkelPad: [ToolBar plugin] tooltips for toolbar buttons have some extra text

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The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.9 is now available for Linux and Mac

The Wine development release 1.9.9 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• More work towards the WineD3D command stream.
• Service proxies in WebServices.
• Query support in the builtin reg.exe utility.
• Improved support for long URLs in WinInet.
• 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 1.9.9 (total 38):

  16971  Windows Movie Maker 2.x needs ole32.dll.StgOpenPropStg
  17257  TeX2Word will not install
  23768  winhelp: Some images not shown in certain 16-bit Help files
  25790  WM_SETTEXT handler for the user32 buttons generates WM_CTLCOLOR* inconsistent with Windows user32
  26955  Prince of Persia SoT: control key bindings don't change properly
  27035  3DMark Vantage needs unimplemented function d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10UnsetAllDeviceObjects
  28825  Mystic Diary - Haunted Island: Multiple sprite-related bugs in hidden object scenes
  30570  3D Custom Shoujo prints invalid GL operations related to device_clear_render_targets
  32451  Multiple GOG.com installer bundles show a broken/unresponsive dialog window during installation (installer process running out of wndproc slots)
  32979  Metal Gear Solid Crash
  33130  QuarkXPress v9.5 crashes after starting up
  34598  The cursor doesn't highlight chessboard fields precisely in Chessmaster 10
  35793  BOTTLENECK program crashes when loading datasets
  36031  GeForce 9700M incorrectly detected as 9400
  37087  Gothic 2 english demo fails with 'Conflict: a hook process was found. Please deactivate all Antivirus and Anti-Trojan programs and debuggers.'
  38102  Process Hacker 2.x needs winsta.dll.WinStationEnumerateW
  38544  Unable to send messages in Skype 7.4.85.102
  38865  HiSuite Huwaei Android Smart Device Manager v2.3.55.x crashes on startup
  39437  Visual Studio 2015-compiled C++ programs do not run (unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll._initialize_onexit_table)
  39543  Multiple games and applications crash on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.FreeUserPhysicalPages (Microsoft Office 2007 diagnosis service, Eden Eternal)
  39608  King Arthur II demo crashes with unimplemented function d3d10_1.dll.D3D10CreateEffectPoolFromMemory with native d3dx10_43 and d3dcompiler_43
  39622  TeamViewer 11 window does not show "Remote Control" and "Meeting" buttons/tabs.
  39759  Add support for detect  Nvidia TITAN Black in wine3d/device list
  39834  Just Cause 2 needs d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10CreateDevice
  40112  kernel32:time regression
  40244  PostThreadMessage with WM_NOTIFY message should succeed
  40317  PDF Eraser does not open with wine-mono
  40348  Nvidia 800 series cards not detected correctly
  40408  Photoshop CC 2015 now crashes when adjusting levels
  40456  NFS MW + NFS Carbon: Car is flying above/under the track (D3DXVec3Transform needs arguments aliasing)
  40466  Midnight Commander needs KERNEL32.dll.GetConsoleFontInfo
  40473  wine fails to compile with >=glibc-2.23
  40474  Popup menus no longer close when clicking on a different window
  40487  3dmark Vantage Benchmark: unimplemented functions hal.dll.READ and WRITE PORT
  40493  Prison Tycoon 4 crashes on start up needing msvcp71.dll.??$?5DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@YAAAV?$basic_istream@DU?

$char_traits@D@std@@@0@AAV10@AAC@Z
  40518  Guild Wars shows only garbled screen when anti-aliasing enabled
  40525  schannel:main does not recognize package version 0x400000
  40551  star craft 2 does not start

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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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