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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Выпуск Wine 1.7.55

Доступен очередной экспериментальный выпуск открытой реализации Win32 API - Wine 1.7.55. С момента выпуска версии 1.7.54 было закрыто 76 отчётов об ошибках.
Наиболее важные изменения:
  • Добавлен драйвер для звукового сервера PulseAudio;
  • Внесена порция исправлений, решающих проблемы с поддержкой Microsoft Office 2013;
  • Расширена реализация Web Services DLL;
  • Дополнительные правки для свежей версии C runtime;
  • Улучшение генерации сборочных файлов (Makefile);
  • Закрыты отчёты об ошибках, связанные с работой игр и приложений: Adobe Premiere 6, Cubis Gold 2, ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5, PowerDVD 10, MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.4, BBC iPlayer, FarManager v3, Sacred 2 Gold, Picasa 3.9, Black Mirror 3, FreshDiagnose 8.67, Sades 7.1, Emerge Desktop 6.1.3.
А если вы используете этот скидочный код ( TOM23 ) вы можете сэкономить дополнительные 20% от $20.95 цене.

New mobile wineskin website and forums coming soon

New mobile wineskin winery website and forums coming soon.

I'm planning on revamping this website. The current plan is I'll make pretty much the entire website from scratch, as it's really all static data besides news updates, so it's not too difficult. The plan is to make it responsive so it'll look and work right on anything from phones to desktops.

The issue comes down to... I don't want to try to make a Forum from scratch. I'd like to find one I can integrate in easy and will work good, including a responsive design.

I'd like input if anyone has anything I should look at that would be easy enough to use and would work good for the website here.

What we need i can think of...
  • Open Source
  • Easy to modify the looks/appearance
  • Responsive design
  • Can allow moderated anonymous posts like now
  • Allows users to also make accounts, so trusted users don't have to go through moderation.
  • easy to search and find posts for users looking for answers to questions
  • Will last and be well supported for years to come

Anything else anyone can think of? I haven't messed with Forum software much in years, but anything has to be better than this one... going to dump all of Tiki software.

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Wineskin 2.6.2 wrapper has been released

About : Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X.  The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers.  It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose.


Wineskin 2.6.2 Minor update is available as an update in Wineskin Winery.

Wineskin 2.6.2 changelog :

This should fix Winetricks to be able to update correctly in El Capitan.

Wineskin 2.6.2 download :

This update is available as an update in Wineskin Winery.


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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Wine 1.7.55 Officially Released the Devs Will Now Concentrate on Wine 1.8

The Wine development release 1.7.55 is now available.

What's new in this release:
  • Pulse audio driver.
  • Various fixes for Microsoft Office 2013 support.
  • Some more implementation of the Web Services DLL.
  • More fixes for the latest C runtime version.
  • Improvements to the Makefile generation.
  • 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.

Email sent to Wine Development from Alexandre Julliard

Start of code freeze

Folks,

Now that release 1.7.55 is out, it's time to start code freeze towards the stable 1.8 release. This means that from now on, new features or code redesigns won't be accepted; only targeted bug fixes that don't look too dangerous will be allowed in. The freeze will get increasingly more strict as we progress towards release.

I know that git makes it easy for everybody to keep working on new things on their own branch, but I'd ask that we all take time to concentrate on fixing bugs, and particularly regressions. I'm hoping that we can make the number of regressions drop significantly, like we did for the previous stable releases.

I will be making release candidates every Friday until we run out of bugs that can be reasonably fixed. Based on previous experience, the code freeze should last between 4 and 8 weeks.

This is also an opportunity to polish things like translations, documentation, web site etc. so there is plenty to do even for non-developers. And most importantly, we need help with retesting as many applications as possible...

Thank you all for your help!

Bugs fixed in 1.7.55 (total 76):

   8854  Unable to get keyboard / mouse input in multiple games
   9032  Adobe Premiere 6 video playback broken
  10495  Wine should support PulseAudio
  11107  Adobe AIR / Adobe Media Player pre 2 never shows GUI
  12474  Resolume Avenue 3.3.2 - Black video preview windows
  14518  GetTextMetrics on Tahoma font metrics returns an invalid tmInternalLeading
  14894  Cubis Gold 2 crashes on start
  17693  Silkypix 3.0 and DVD-lab PRO 2.x: menus are invisible until clicked
  18442  Google Video/Voice chat plugin installer finishes with error 0x80040509
  19937  ArcSoft PhotoStudio 5.5 crashes on startup
  23001  Dolphin GC/Wii emulator 2.0 Wiimote plugin needs Bluetooth Control Panel Applet 'bthprops.cpl'
  23575  PowerDVD 10 trial crashes after registration
  24572  Freelancer (Microsoft Games): installer text in custom graphical user interface rendered in black rather than white, making it nearly unreadable
  27061  iNode Client 3.60 exits silently on start up (H3C iNode service install fails, needs 'HKLM\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\ServiceGroupOrder\\List' key with REG_MULTI_SZ 'TDI' value)
  27563  Dungeons and Dragons/Lord of the Rings online: launcher doesn't see COM/ActiveX as supported with builtin mono
  29309  Zynaps remix exits with memory access violation
  29852  Star Trek Birth of the Federation - No Videos (negative height used as request for inverted frame decompressing)
  29899  mapviewoffileex fails under certain condition with PE images
  31534  TOAD for SQLServer 5.0.1.554 fails to install
  32703  MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.4 installer has a non-fatal crash
  32705  VirtualDub: crash when opening video with MPEG-2 plugin (division by zero)
  32839  Endnote X5 crashes on unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.??0?$basic_fstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAE@PAU_iobuf@@@Z
  32923  Daum Pot Player Media Player crashes
  33001  AXE3 (hex editor) crashes in TREEVIEW_GetItemT on invalid item pointer
  33453  Delphi7 import type library hangs
  33479  Multiple games (Guild Wars 2, Risen 2, Tomb Raider 2013): Raw input is broken
  33563  Imscared shows visual artifacts (green dots and white lines)
  33713  download.com (CNET) download manager gets stuck on step 2 of 4
  34559  Call to Power II: Scrolling causes mouse and screen to lock
  34845  The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot: "Bloomberg" crash/diag tool complains about dbghelp being too old (v5.x Windows XP vs. v6.x Win Vista/7)
  35677  BBC iPlayer Desktop installer reports 'You need Windows Media Player (9 or above) to install this software.' (builtin 'wmplayer.exe' along with version resource missing)
  35702  FarManager v3 crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.SetConsoleKeyShortcuts
  35953  FFXIV: ARR - Launcher requires native winhttp to run.
  36280  valgrind shows a possible leak in gameux/tests/gamestatistics.c
  36291  valgrind shows a leak msctf/tests/inputprocessor.c
  36400  valgrind shows several unitialized values in under crypt32/tests/message.c
  36427  valgrind shows several leaks in dlls/taskschd/tests/scheduler.c
  36450  EnumFontFamilies should report unsubstituted font names
  36508  valgrind shows a couple invalid writes in kernel32/tests/change.c
  36527  Multiple games and applications crash on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.AllocateUserPhysicalPages (Microsoft Office 2007 diagnosis service, Eden Eternal)
  36607  valgrind shows two definite leaks in xmllite/tests/reader.c
  37165  Sacred 2 Gold (v2.65.1) fails to start correctly, displays only a black screen in virtual desktop mode
  37729  Picasa 3.9 crashes in setupapi.SetupFindFirstLineW
  37829  Phonostar dradio-Recorder cannot connect to radio streams
  37843  Black Mirror 3 starts minimized
  37932  Evil Genius from GOG crashes unexpectedly
  37956  Photoshop (CS6/CC) 64bit crash when you press "cancel" button
  38097  FreshDiagnose 8.67 'Protected Files' diagnosis wants sfc.dll.SfcGetNextProtectedFile
  38125  MFC CRichEditCtrl does not correctly put text in Center, Right or Left
  38255  Sid Meier's Ace Patrol needs msvcp110.dll._Thrd_current
  38368  AutoPatcher Updater 1.4.x (VB6 app) reports 'Error: Object doesn't support this action' (needs ITextStream::Close method implementation)
  38390  Photoshop 64-bit (CS/CC) crashes when you break the rendering preview.
  38417  [EA] Origin self-updater fails to install updates ('kernel32.DeleteFileW' shall only open the file for delete access as callers might not have read/write rights)
  38444  valgrind shows some definite leaks in dpnet/tests/address.c
  38445  valgrind shows a couple invalid writes in kernel32/tests/fiber.c
  38450  valgrind shows several leaks in shell32/tests/shlfolder.c
  38464  valgrind shows a possible leak in wininet/tests/http.c test_async_HttpSendRequestEx()
  38477  Elevated: Invisible textures since wine-1.7.34-58-gc6232e1
  38589  Sades 7.1 CH Gaming Headset driver installation fails
  38677  valgrind shows invalid memory use in dlls/kernel32/tests/path.c:test_PathNameA()
  39081  CCleaner needs esent.dll
  39101  Visual Studio Compiler creates invalid interface from a typelib
  39143  Roxio CDRAL 'CDRALW2K.SYS' kernel driver (part of Windows Media 9 Runtime) crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ExAcquireResourceExclusiveLite during driver unload
  39259  BTHPROPS.DLL and BLUETOOTHAPIS.DLL are unimplemented
  39423  Voobly: 'Game Browser' can't display content due to Wine built-in browser signature blacklisted on www.voobly.com ('win32' feature token must not be included in user agent string)
  39443  Multiple applications fail start File System Filter Manager service due unimplemented function fltmgr.sys.FltInitializePushLock (Kaspersky Anti-Virus)
  39493  GImageX v2.1.1 (gui for ImageX tool from Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit) crashes on unimplemented function wimgapi.dll.WIMRegisterMessageCallback
  39516  Listview tests consistently fail
  39528  Emerge Desktop 6.1.3 crashes on startup (incorrect shdocvw.RunInstallUninstallStubs2 stub signature)
  39529  Data Source initstring parsing is case-sensitive
  39544  Microsoft Office 2007 installer fails with 'ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ProcessBranding" returned 1603'
  39545  wine build fails without libpulse
  39551  building dlls/atl fails: error: Could not open importlib stdole2.tlb.
  39568  err:dbghelp_msc:pe_load_debug_directory Got a page fault while loading symbols
  39574  iNode 3.6 client needs ndis.sys.NdisInitUnicodeString
  39575  Wine control panel app crashes when encountering builtin applets with unimplemented CPL entry points (bthprops.cpl.CPlApplet)

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Friday, November 13, 2015

How to Install GardenCAD on Mac with CrossOver

We are asked about Windows software running in CrossOver all the time. The range of programs varies so much that it's always questionable on what it might take to get the application running. Most of the time, it's easy.

Recently, we received a request for a second look at GardenCAD and it's big brother, gCADPlus. To our surprise, the team for gCADPlus checked us out a few years ago and put together a handy walk-through for our product.

What they didn't know, we've made it easier than ever to install an unsupported program, like GardenCAD. To be clear, an unsupported program is a Windows program that has not been regularly tested by a member of the CodeWeavers team. Before we get too far, let's talk about what it takes to install an unsupported program.

First, open CrossOver (on your Mac today):

CrossOver Opening Screen
After you click on "Install a Windows Application", search for your application:

Search for gCAD
When your application doesn't show up, it's some "Other Application" that CrossOver doesn't know about... and that's okay. More applications than ever run in CrossOver.

There's no reason to give up here, make the selection of "Other Application" and open the next section of CrossOver, Select an Installer and click "Choose Installer File":

Choose Installer File...
Show CrossOver where your installer file is, highlight it and click, "Use this Installer":

Use This Installer
CrossOver will look like this:

CrossOver and gCADplus
Click Install!

For gCADplus, the installer starts, completes and gCADplus launches!

gCADplus Launches
And, it does things:

gCADplus in CrossOver
It really is that easy!

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Microsoft Office 2013 on Linux with CodeWeavers CrossOver

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.

In the upcoming release of CodeWeavers CrossOver Linux 15 we will see many new and exciting changes over the current CrossOver 14 edition that's available now. Don't get me wrong CrossOver 14 is a nice release and runs many productivity applications and games that we care about today.

CrossOver Linux 15 is a whole new ball game, it will come with Microsoft Office 2013 functionality, the beginnings of DirectX 10 and 11 support, a newly refreshed and modern Graphical User Interface (GUI) and incorporate just over a full years worth of Wine from WineHQ changes into the release. And most likely will ship with the upcoming Wine 1.8 stable release or a variant of that release.

Not only will we get a newly updated Graphical User Interface (GUI) we will also get a totally new version of Wine with many DirectX 10 and 11 enhancements. So the day of playing DirectX 10 and 11 games on Linux is soon approaching. I can only imagine the effects on work productivity as we will be like children in a candy store once again.

So on to the main article, this isn't a how-to or user guide but simply a news post. CrossOver 15 is still under extremely heavy development and testing. This news post is to inform everyone of a small sample of whats soon coming our way.

Specs :

Distro : Ubuntu Linux 14.04.3 LTS
CrossOver Release : 15.0 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.

CodeWeavers CrossOver 15 Software Installer


CodeWeavers CrossOver 15 Software Installer Office 2013


Starting the Office 2013 install on Linux


Microsoft Office Professional Plus License Agreement

Choose your Office 2013 installation


Office 2013 install has finished


Now the real fun begins, time to run Microsoft word 2013 for the first time on Linux.


Microsoft Word 2013 is now running on Linux, Thank You CodeWeavers!


PowerPoint 2013 running on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Hello from PowerPoint 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Microsoft Excel 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Microsoft Outlook 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Microsoft Publisher 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.


Wow, was that fun or what? and this is just a small sample of what's to come in the upcoming CrossOver Linux 15 release. If you want to help support future Wine development and CodeWeavers just go over to CodeWeavers online store and pick up your copy of CrossOver for Mac or Linux. When you use promo code ( TOM23 ) you will receive a instant 20% discount and help support future development. I know you want to play some DirectX 10 and 11 games on your Linux or Mac computer.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

WineHQ Wine 1.7.54 Released

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.7.54 is now available.

What's new in this release:
  • Implementation of the TransmitFile function.
  • More implementation of the Web Services DLL.
  • Improved video decoding.
  • Alternative for the deprecated prelink tool.
  • Major Turkish translation update.
  • Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.54 (total 51):

   5048  Multiple applications and games need support for ws2_32 SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER TransmitFile (WSAID_TRANSMITFILE)
  12336  Paint.NET 3.22 window rendering broken
  19525  Poison Ivy does not work correctly because RtlGetCompressionWorkSpaceSize and friends are only stubs
  21012  MSWT Kart 2004 does not work (TGA images misinterpreted as ICO files in OleLoadPicture)
  21076  Defense Grid: The Awakening does not draw the models properly
  22806  Paint.NET 3.36 fails to start without native gdiplus
  22879  IVONA Voices/Reader (SAPI TTS) 1.0.16 crashes on startup
  22907  CamStudio displays an error when record button is pressed  (ICOpen with fccHandler = 0 is not supported)
  24031  Word Perfect Lightning 1.0 beta installer does not display text in first dialog
  26344  Protel Advanced PCB Design System v2.5 (win16 app) crashes on startup
  26621  KidStarter Shell installer needs 'HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon' registry key present
  27595  HyperCam 2.x crashes on startup (when lpbiOutput is NULL it has to be filled by the codec based on lpbiInput)
  30703  Pepakura Viewer crashes on startup: dib init failed, failed to create rendering context
  31442  Guild Wars 2 freezes on text input fields
  32325  Assassin's Creed III crashes on startup (ID3D11Device::QueryInterface doesn't support IDXGIDevice1, '{77db970f-6276-48ba-ba28-070143b4392c}')
  32620  Warcraft Voice Chat cannot capture voice.
  32707  Adobe Shockwave 12.1 installer:  hangs during installation
  32895  Serious Sam HD: TSE crashes randomly in the campaign && when picking up backpacks
  33893  Midnight Nowhere demo shows black screen
  33965  WordPerfect 10 (Corel Office 2002) crashes when trying to create a table
  34079  OneDrive for Business C2R (click-to-run) client reports server error ('rpcrt4.RpcMgmtIsServerListening' must check if binding handle refers to remote server)
  34574  Kega Fusion 3.64 - Fullscreen not working anymore
  34898  Evernote 5.0.3 crashes when synchronizing notes with main gui from separate note editor window
  35023  Paint.NET 3.22 crashes on startup, reporting "Property cannot be found" (no metadata reader/properties present for Png)
  35792  rmxftmpl.h differs on some architectures
  35872  Pinball Science crashed on starting
  36301  valgrind shows an invalid read (bstr) in msxml3/tests/saxreader.c
  36560  valgrind shows an invalid read in d3drm/tests/d3drm.c
  36794  valgrind shows an invalid free for comctl32/tests/listview.c
  36827  The horror game Mad Father won't work
  36895  You Don’t Know Jack V1 XL: Scaling/moving text shown as solid coloured blocks
  37351  American Mcgee's Alice No Audio
  37930  Photoshop CS6: dragging layers leaves a trail of garbage
  37980  Word Viewer 2007 fails to open *.docx files with Windows version set to Vista or later (Word Converter local COM server requires WebDAV client API 'DavClnt.dll')
  38131  Java SE Runtime Environment 5.0u16 web installer 'patchjre.exe' tool crashes
  38242  Granny In Paradise Demo fails to start, reports 'Failed to load encrypted EXE' (ReflexiveArcade Wrapper DRM scheme)
  38533  opengl32/tests/opengl.c hangs under valgrind (i965/mesa)
  38655  Galactic Civilizations III Fails to start (D3DCompiler_46 Failed to load)
  38745  EZCastPro 1.4 crashes on unimplemented function USER32.dll.GetDisplayConfigBufferSizes
  39171  Creatures: White pixels are black.
  39296  Setup dialog windows needs to drag for capture
  39339  Adventure games from Daedalic Ent. (Night of the Rabbit, Edna & Harvey, A New Beginning) have no in-game audio and freeze on new game start - XAudio2_7
  39357  Do not see the audio equipment , and there is no sound in the game Blade & Soul
  39395  Wolfram Research Mathematica 10.2 needs kernel32.dll.GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory
  39400  Eleusis demo needs XAudio2 class '{a90bc001-e897-e897-7439-435500000000}'
  39449  __finally being called too many times (Unwind consolidate callback needs special wrapper function to skip stack frames)
  39462  GImageX v2.1.1 (gui for ImageX tool from Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit) needs WIMGAPI.DLL
  39473  Some of PropVariantCopy tests results are masked by faulty logic
  39478  Call of Duty: United Offensive demo crashes at launch
  39480  Sniper Elite V2 demo needs IDXGIFactory1 interface '{770aae78-f26f-4dba-a829-253c83d1b387}'
  39488  explorer.exe (and other applications) crash on start after drive z: (/) got deleted

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CodeWeavers is now on VOAT

I just setup a voat subverse for CodeWeavers if you want to come join the conversation and see how a proper Reddit should be managed VOAT is the place to be.

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Monday, November 2, 2015

Mariner Software Mariner Write 3.9.5 has been released

Mariner Software Mariner Write is your Mac OS go-to word processing tool! Professional writer, educator or student, Write has all the functionality you need for that important letter, technical paper or research project. Elegantly efficient and powerful, Mariner Write turns out great looking documents. Create customized headers, footers, endnotes or footnotes. Easily define styles; use keyboard shortcuts for repeated tasks. Use Mail Merge to automate a mailing. Write possesses a powerful Find Dialog, an intuitive Font Panel and much more. Mariner Write empowers you to create your own word processing environment so you can produce documents that are clean, consistent and professional.

What's New

Version 3.9.5:
  • Fixed an issue with the Print dialog when running El Capitan.

Requirements

  • Intel
  • OS X 10.7 or later
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Mariner Software MacGourmet Deluxe 4.2.2 has been released

Mariner Software 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. Unlike MacGourmet, MacGourmet Deluxe users can also plan meals, analyze nutritional information, and generate shopping lists.

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 4.2.2: Note: Now requires a 64-bit Intel processor.
  • Updated the web site importer to support additional sites.
  • Updated the AllRecipes.com importer to support the new site format.
  • Updated the Food&Wine.com importer to parse the instructions properly (format change).
  • Added a print template to print Nutrition info.
  • Updated the print preview display to properly update style and template changes (MacOS change).
  • Fixed a bug with calculating nutritional data that caused an exception (crash).
  • Fixed MealPlan printing to read the css styles.
  • Added missing Retina display images and icons.

Requirements

  • Intel, 64-bit processor
  • OS X 10.7 or later
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Mariner Software MacGourmet 4.2.2 has been released

Mariner Software MacGourmet 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. For more core functions, try MacGourmet Deluxe.

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

What's New

Version 4.2.2: Note: Now requires a 64-bit Intel processor.
  • Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

Requirements

  • Intel, 64-bit processor
  • OS X 10.7 or later
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Wine 1.8 code freeze and Pulse Audio Driver coming soon

Alexandre Julliard WineHQ Wine maintainer sent a message to the wine-devel mailing list outlining the Wine 1.8 code code freeze schedule and possible release in time for Christmas 2015. Below is a copy of the email Alexandre sent, I would like to see the Pulse driver included in Wine 1.8 as well...

Folks,

We've decided at WineConf that there would be a code freeze and release every year in the fall. That means about right now...

However, there are a few things I'd like to get in first (*cough* Pulse driver), so my thinking is to do one more development release cycle, and start code freeze after 1.7.55. This should enable us to release 1.8 before the end of the year.

So if there are new features you'd like to get into 1.8, you have another two weeks...

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Friday, October 30, 2015

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CodeWeavers CrossOver 14.1.11 ChangeLog

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

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 14.1.11 CrossOver - October 29, 2015
  • Application Support:
    • Fixed a problem with the Steam store.
  • Linux:
    • Fixed installation problems on systems running Security Enhanced Linux.

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CodeWeavers CrossOver 14.1.11 has been released

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

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

Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :

 14.1.11 CrossOver - October 29, 2015
  • Application Support:
    • Fixed a problem with the Steam store.
  • Linux:
    • Fixed installation problems on systems running Security Enhanced Linux.
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Wine 1.7.53 from WineHQ has been Released

The Wine development release 1.7.53 is now available from WineHQ .
What's new in this release:
  • Support for the various versions of XAudio.
  • More implementation of the Web Services DLL.
  • Improved OLE object embedding.
  • Various code cleanups in Direct3D.
  • New MAINTAINERS file and Signed-off-by requirement to improve the patch review process.
  • Various bug fixes.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

 Bugs fixed in 1.7.53 (total 61):

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

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

PlayOnLinux Review Playing Windows Games Was Never Easier

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

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

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

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

Installation

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

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

sudo dpkg -i PlayOnLinux_4.2.9.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
PlayOnLinux also needs Wine, so we'll have to install that as well. As I was saying earlier, I had problems installing Wine 1.7 in Ubuntu 15.10, so I had to settle with Wine 1.6. This is not a major problem since PlayOnLinux can download and use other versions of Wine. Open a terminal and enter these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7
If you can get 1.7 to work, you can also install the 1.6 version.

Usage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Runs on OS X El Capitan

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

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

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

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

Saves up to 92% harddrive-space

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

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

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

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

New Wine and mono version

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

Thank you very much!

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

 WineBottler 1.7.52

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

enjoy
Mike