Wine Review

Darwine 1.0-rc1 released

2008-05-14T11:41:00.002-04:00

Before You install, please make sure:
- Tiger users: install X11 from your Tiger Installation DVD
download and open Darwine 1.0-rc1
drag Darwine to the "/Applications" Folder
to delete, just drag the folder "Darwine" to the trash
known issues:
- Internet Explorer uses up to 100% CPU, which might turn on your vents
- Internet Explorer 7 might not work at all, it is really only for testing
- 1 of 4 tries downloads a corrupt "ActiveX MFC42" (maybe defective mirror?)
- there are some issues with creating wineprefix (might be X11 related)
- if You have symbols instead of letters, you lack the Microsoft Corefonts. Get them with TRiX
to completely remove Darwine (and Windows apps) from your system delete the following files and folders:
- /Applications/Darwine
- ~.wine
- ~/Library/Preferences/org.wine.winehelper.plist

What's new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Video On Demand for PlayOnLinux

2008-05-13T01:18:00.001-04:00

It's been a long time and I was thinking that PlayOnLinux had to have a native capture system, like the famous FRAPS for Windows. It's now done with Capture, a plugin which will allow you to record your exploits in your favorite game!!!

You can see the result HERE
Note: This video spoils the final boss of Portal (French version), if you want to keep the surprise, then don't watch it.

Here is how to proceed:

1-Once the plugin is installed and activated, just run it.

2-Select the game you want to Capture and a personalized launcher will be added to your menu.

3-When you will use this launcher, the following message, indicating that the capture will start or will stop with +F8, will be prompted.

Note: You MUST stop the capture before leaving the game else the capture's file will risk to be corrupted!!

4-Once your capture finished, you can either visualize it, or convert it to avi (Video x264 - Audio mp3), the capture and the converted video are stored in the POL_Capture folder, situated in your home directory.

5-To finish, if you want to, you can remove the special launcher

You will find this plugin HERE and in the website's download section, of course.

Have a good capture!

PlayOnLinux 2.7.2 released

2008-05-12T19:12:00.003-04:00

PlayOnLinux 2.7.2 is available today.

Here are the new features:

A new function: message_one

The command:

message_one "Your message" "Your title" A_Unique_ID"

And you get:

If the user tick the box, PlayOnLinux will remember "A_Unique_ID" and won't display any message for this ID So I used it for the 3D acceleration

Improved IRC

- A little message indicating the allowed languages on the channel.
- More commands are supported
- nick-pol replace nick-playonlinux as default nickname.

Wine version manager fixed

- It supports now versions >= 0.9.60. Indeed, since this version, the packages' algorithm has changed to lzma. So PlayOnLinux now needs one more dependency: lzma which allows to extract the last .deb packages (because the Wine version manager uses the Ubuntu's packages)

The manque function

(means lack in French, the function will be translated later) It is designed to be used after check_depend. It displays the error message if check_depend didn't succeed.
Example:

check_depend "dosbox" "dosbox"
check_depend "playonlinux" "playonlinux"
manque

Tools menu improved

To prevent non-wine launchers (dosbox, cedega) from accessng to the wine functions

A new plugin: TransgamingCedega

This plugin allows to import your cedega launchers in PlayOnLinux and to use the cedega engines. Cedega's scripts aren't yet supported.

Installing WINE

2008-05-12T06:09:00.003-04:00

I came across a nice article "How to install WINE without spilling a drop" at atomicmpc.com here is a snip of their article and a link to the full story.

In our Linux gaming feature a couple of months ago we looked at Wine, the Windows compatibility layer that allows Linux users to run a number of Windows games, including recent hits like Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4. It’s not the easiest thing to set up – not by a long shot, in fact – but that’s why we’re here. We’ll show you what Wine can do, how to get it working, and how to get the best out of it.

Removing the cork
The easiest way to get started with Wine is to install your distribution’s packages – ‘sudo apt-get install wine’ would do the job on Ubuntu, for instance. However, with the rapid pace of Wine’s development, these packages might be a few versions old. A good alternative is to use the official packages from the WineHQ download page which are typically updated within days of each new Wine release. For most distributions, these are provided as repositories that you can add to your package manager, so you can easily keep up with new releases automatically.

Once it’s installed, you can run Windows .exe files by either double-clicking on them, or by running them at the command-line with the ‘wine’ command. For instance, if you have your Windows install handy, you could go to your ‘windows/system32’ folder and run:
wine sol.exe
Wine stores its data in the ‘.wine’ folder in your home directory, which is created the first time it’s run. Under this, there’s a ‘drive_c’ folder, which contains the contents of your virtual Windows system – any applications running under Wine see this as your C: drive, so it contains your ‘windows’ and ‘Program Files’ folders, among others.

Installing software under Wine is much the same as under Windows – just run the installer and step through. The files will be stored under your ‘.wine/drive_c’ folder, and on most distributions if the installer sets up shortcuts they’ll appear on the desktop or under your desktop menus. Alternatively, you can go in to your ‘.wine/drive_c’ folder and run the applications manually by double-clicking or using the ‘wine’ command.

For some games and applications, that’s all you need to do, but others will take a bit of tweaking. The best place to go for compatibility information, including the details on any tweaks required, is the Wine Application DB, but we’ll walk you through a few examples.

Steaming open The Orange Box
Valve’s games are the perfect starting point for jumping in to Wine: the Source engine runs well on Wine’s DirectX implementation, and using Steam gets around any disc-based copy protection issues. Follow these steps to get your Steam on:

1) Install the Gecko-based replacement for the MSHTML component, which Steam needs to render its internal web pages. It’s meant to install automatically when first requested, but this doesn’t always work with Steam, so it’s best to run Wine’s built-in ‘iexplore’ command instead:
wine iexplore http://winehq.org/
Close the browser window once the installation is complete.

2) Go to http://steampowered.com/ and download the Steam installer. Because it’s an MSI file, you need to launch it using Wine’s built-in MSI handler:
wine msiexec /i SteamInstall.msi
3) Step through the installer just as you would under Windows. When it’s complete, Steam should run automatically, but if not, you can launch it manually from Wine’s virtual C: drive:
cd “~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam”
wine Steam.exe
4) When Steam launches, log in to your account, and the main Steam window should appear.

Your existing purchases should be listed in the ‘My games’ tab as ‘Not Installed’, so you can re-download them for free. Alternatively, you can save yourself the bandwidth by copying the ‘steamapps’ folder from the Steam folder on your Windows drive to your new Wine Steam folder. Re-launch Steam after the copy, and your games should be ready to play.

Everything in The Orange Box should work without tweaking, though you may hit some performance snags or graphical glitches when using DirectX 9 features. The Source engine is nice and scalable though, so you can force games to run in DirectX 8 mode if required: just right-click on the game in the ‘My games’ tab, select Properties, click the ‘Set launch options...’ button, and enter ‘-dxlevel 81’.

Wine configuration
All good Linux tools are loaded with options, and like the blood in an anime character, Wine is filled to bursting point. The first port of call is, unsurprisingly, the Wine configuration tool, ‘winecfg’:
wine winecfg
Some of the key settings include:
Setting the version of Windows that Wine reports itself as, under the ‘Applications’ tab. You can set this on a global or per-application basis. This can be handy for getting specific applications running – 3DMark05, for instance, works with the ‘Windows 98’ setting, but not the 2000 or XP settings.

Audio acceleration options, in the ‘Audio’ tab. Many games only work when the ‘Hardware Acceleration’ option is set to ‘Emulation’, so try this if you have any in-game sound issues. It’s also best to pick one sound driver API to use (ALSA, generally), and disable the others.

The ‘Enable a virtual desktop’ option, in the Graphics tab. This creates a single window on your desktop that all of Wine’s windows sit inside, which can help avoid window management issues with some applications. It’s also great for troubleshooting full-screen games, since the game is limited to the virtual desktop window, giving you full access to any Wine error messages.

DLL override options, in the ‘Libraries’ tab. Some of Wine’s built-in DLLs can be replaced with the original Windows versions for improved compatibility, but to use them, you need to add a manual override for the specific DLL involved. Civilization IV is a good example – you need to install a genuine ‘msxml3.dll’ file in to your ‘system32’ folder and add a DLL override to get it running.

You can find further options in the registry, which you can edit using Wine’s built-in version of ‘regedit’:
wine regedit
For instance, if you’re happy running Source engine games in DirectX 8 mode, you can improve performance by disabling Wine’s DirectX 9 shader support and using the older, but more heavily optimised, DirectX 8-only shader code. To do this, use ‘regedit’ to set the ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Direct3D/UseGLSL’ to ‘disabled’.

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2008-05-11T23:24:00.000-04:00

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Wine 1.0 status rc2 in 12 days

2008-05-11T22:38:00.002-04:00

Wine is now in a code freeze in preparation for the 1.0 release.

According to the Wine Release Plan wine-1.0.0-rc2 will be due out Friday, May 23rd, 2008. It will be something like be the next to last release candidate for 1.0.

During the code freeze, patches that

are simple
come with a conformance test
fix a regression
are low risk

are more likely to get in than other patches. (Heck, that's always true, but it's even truer during a freeze.) We will actively discourage patches that might endanger a June 1.0 release.

Bug Status

There are 34 open 1.0 bugs as of 10 May. Most of these will simply be rolled over to be fixed for a later release; we only have time to fix a few, and much as we'd like to fix the rest, most are not showstoppers.

Changes since last week (with category and votes):

New (!):
13071 quartz 0 Flashplayer crashes in a quartz bug
13115 advapi 0 .net 1.1 installer fails in ControlService()

Fixed:
8125 -unknown 0 Marratech 6.1 crashes on start
8783 ntdll 14 USB serial ports do not work
9178 -unknown 8 "hello world" dos program hangs
9356 ntdll 11 Serial communication not working since wine-0.9.33
11420 advapi32 0 service control manager API problem:
name of named objects might differ (client vs. service process)

Invalid:
12914 tools 1 wineprefixcreate overrides custom entries in
Explorer\\Shell Folders

Deferred:
2368 winex11. 7 Wine loses its X-Window when switching
to another virt. desktop in Fvwm
4523 user32 5 Can't copy from Firefox 1.5 and paste into
OpenOffice 2 under Wine
5061 -unknown 6 Copying from Windows Firefox in Wine
and pasting to Linux OpenOffice pastes metadata as data
6604 tools 3 Ship icons for the wine-tools that can be used
in .desktop files
7372 winex11. 14 can't copy and paste between gnome
apps eg openoffice or gimp and wine apps such as dreamweaver or adobe
photoshop
7571 gdi32 1 Accented character glyphs are mixed up with
TrueType fonts (affects e.g. Lotus Notes R5)
9942 ole 3 Powerpoint Viewer 2007 crashes opening .pptx files

Here's the full list of current bugs:

13115 advapi 0 .net 1.1 installer fails in ControlService()
2493 comctl32 2 Multi-select listview: Shift-arrow up only selects top two items
11509 crypt32 0 Wordviewer 2003 is unable to open documents encrypted with AES
5535 directx- 20 Planescape:Torment doesn't work
11584 directx- 2 Multiple games crash with stack overflow error
3270 gdi32 16 Problem with minimized top-level windows
6519 gdi32 7 Wine blacks out rotated font bitmap
9771 gdi32 45 Steam Friends doesn't work (fails to render correctly or refresh)
12730 gdi32 1 gdi32: some tests fail when X is run in 16 bit mode, but not 32 bit
5024 kernel32 5 Thief: Deadly Shadows crashes:page fault on read access to 0x0000040c
10147 msi 2 Word Viewer 2003 - Tab behavior
differs from Windows
12263 opengl 3 Sketchup Cannot initialize OpenGL - ChoosePixelFormat fails
5926 programs 1 Wine does not provide an implementation of winhlp32.exe
10288 programs 0 wine_gecko download hangs sometimes
13071 quartz 0 Flashplayer crashes in a quartz bug
5163 setupapi 14 Office XP 2002 crashes on installation
6095 shdocvw 16 MOTD in counter-strike 1.6 and counter-strike source does not render
8898 shdocvw 1 Run Time Error "445": Object doesn't support this action in Europa Knowledgebase
8439 shell32 10 Visual Studio .NET (7) install fails
11742 shlwapi 9 Small .net 1.1 app (FastMD5 1.3) fails to start up
12074 testcase 3 The conformance tests fail on Windows
5402 -unknown 0 Trying to run PhotoStitch 3.1
5844 -unknown 16 tray minimize
5948 -unknown 2 Star Trek: Armada does not install
7404 -unknown 3 ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE) should not generate a WM_PAINT message
9916 -unknown 6 "make test" usually fails
11281 -unknown 5 CJK input many issues
12097 -unknown 3 Wine 1.0 should not ship out-of-sync resource translations
12246 -unknown 2 "make test" gives different results with and without warn+heap
664 user32 8 The help menu functionality inside programs is broken (messaging problem)
3023 user32 6 Orcad - "Place Part" never tries to put down a part
124 wineserv 2 Review of Wine Server Protocol
9787 winsock 63 Warcraft3 Battle.net Doesn't work (Needs AcceptEx)
12005 wintab32 2 Regression in pressure sensitivity with wizardpen tablet driver and Photoshop 7

winetricks 20080511 released

2008-05-11T17:54:00.002-04:00

Dan Kegel made a small update to winetricks. Look at the list below to see whats fixed and download the new version.

Changes since last week's annoucement:

dotnet11 now works again. Removed GAC kludge, added font kludges.
new verb fontfix to install working versions of arphic fonts (bad versions crash dotnet 1.1)
fixed dotnet20, too. And wsh56 no longer requires you to run vcrun6 first (it does it for you).

Note:dotnet11 and dotnet20 may crash on startup if you have msttcorefonts installed outside of Wine! (That's because corefonts does nothing if you already have those fonts installed on the base Linux system; the font installers just go "Oh, he already has this? Shrug." This is kind of nasty; people shouldn't have to uninstall msttcorefonts to run winetricks. But I don't have a good fix for it yet.)

Online as always at
http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
or
http://winezeug.googlecode.com
or
getwinetricks script

Feel free to comment about this post at the wine-forum.

PlayOnLinux new games support

2008-05-10T04:17:00.002-04:00

The folks over at PlayOnLinux today announced support for seven more games!

DosBox games:

-Cervii
-Redneck Rampage
-Tunneler
-Wolfenstein 3D

Wine games:

-Grand Theft Auto : Vice City
-Hitman 2
-Sam and Max Season1

Wine 1.0-rc1 Released

2008-05-10T03:57:00.006-04:00

This is release 1.0-rc1 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.0. Please give it a good testing to help us make 1.0 as good as possible. In particular please help us look for apps that used to work, but don't now.

Wine 1.0-rc1 was released today, with the following main changes:

Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Bugs fixed in 1.0-rc1:

3164 Missing XP Theme toolbars in app toolbar for Metatrader4
3362 Picasa Movie feature does nothing
3426 WinGizmo does not download magic number code
3792 PrinterPorts does not exist in win.ini
4644 Intuit Quicken 2006 will not run after installation
4969 IDA Pro Trial 5.0 doesn't run; VkKeyScan failure?
6538 Adobe After Effects 7 installer crashes upon startup
6911 MetaTrader 4.0 icons missing
6947 CSpy/Tab: Tabs are in the wrong order
7024 VB program using Tabstrip control produces invalid property under wine
7179 Enhanced metafile: record EMR_EXTSELECTCLIPRGN not handled
7800 Grand Theft Auto Series with a gamepad plugged in the protagonist will start running ahead immedeately
8069 FAR manager 1.70(build 2087): keeps printing "fixme:curses:WCCURSES_GetEvents Ooch. somebody beat us", and doesn't work.
8115 MyScribe loads but doesn't go past the login screen (Centos 4.4)
8125 Marratech 6.1 crashes on start
8615 Medieval 2: Total War crashes when loading game scenario.
8783 USB serial ports do not work
8919 CSS Tab Designer 2 lets wine crash
9178 "hello world" dos program hangs
9356 Serial communication not working since wine-0.9.33
9419 Autocad 2002 crashes after 2 mins of running
9588 Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 dragonpad corrupted left few chars
9729 gdi/x11 related changes cause lockups in various win32 gui apps
9770 Graphical glitches in Children of the Nile demo
10046 GPSMapedit crashes when editing label on a map
10056 False error on serial port read
10431 GPSMapEdit: Unimplemented function gdiplus.dll.GdipGetImageDimension
10573 dlls/kernel32/tests/comm.c test fails on systems with serial ports
10627 child window position is not updated
10756 Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 training feedback lags behind until you pause
10757 Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 can't control mic volume
10794 LEGO Racers (and the demo) crashes when launced outside virtual desktop
10847 Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.0 Preferred sound level unstable
11072 Gun Metal thinks POV2 Up is permanently set
11306 software built with Visual C++ software library crashes
11339 serial.c:wait_on() sanity checks seem to be too strict
11420 service control manager API problem: name of named objects might differ (client vs. service process)
11559 Blood 2: The Chosen (version 1.0) - D3D crash
11644 Crashes in the dinput device.c and joystick.c tests...
12052 Flatout 2, dinput_test: crashes if joystick axis mapping is enabled, different joystick sensitivity
12064 SkySorter halts while starting
12165 Wrong height on 1st list item, on eMule Plus preferences.
12166 Richedit "word wrap" refresh
12373 Nothing is rendered in Crimsonland - blank black screen
12395 NeverWinterNights 2 DM Toolkit crashes on 0.9.59
12429 Gamepad buttons not working in PES 6 (ProEvolutionSoccer)
12431 programs window moves down when clicking in a menu
12597 3d studio MAX 9 trial installer crash
12613 Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 trial version does not install
12680 jack driver produces buffer underruns (regression)
12831 wineserver use ~34% cpu permanently.
12833 no hide button in FlashFxp
12857 Guitar Pro 5 window jumps by the size of the window decoration
12866 wineserver assertion failure when TMG7 installer completes
12885 application sees IPv6 enabled, even if whole system has it disabled / blacklisted
12892 Winedbg crashes on a simple mingw binary
12895 Winedbg can't return the value of a double
12907 Text not totally visible in the Display tab (winecfg)
12913 Regression with D3DTBLEND_MODULATE
12922 Black screen in all direct'x 3d Apps
12924 Children of the nile demo crashes
12928 Microsoft Office 2003 won't install in Wine 0.9.61
12972 Neverwinter Nights upgrade crashes
13016 Steel Panthers crashes between missions in campaign
13074 Large filesize in winefile shown as negative size

The Wine Platinum Regression Hunt

2008-05-10T01:39:00.000-04:00

Dan Kegel over the past couple days has been working on regression testing criteria.. The below quote is from the Wine wiki page that Dan has setup, and im posting it here in the hopes of getting the word out. As Wine is moving along very quickly now and the regression testing criteria will likely change from now until the final 1.0 release.

Wine is nearing its 1.0 release, and we need your help to make sure it's a good one!
Wine has been under heavy development in recent months, and some applications that used to work well no longer do. But we don't know which ones! Please help us find them, so we can fix them. Here's how:

1. First, make sure your machine runs glxgears properly

To run glxgears, open a terminal window and type 'glxgears'. If it crashes, you may need to update your graphics drivers. (This is mostly important when testing games, but it's also needed for some non-3D apps, e.g. Picasa).

2. Install the latest wine 1.0 release candidate

Make sure wine's notepad starts up ok and says "wine 1.0.0 rc1" (or whatever the version you thought you installed was) when you do Help / About Wine.

See http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
for further information.

Wine and Winetricks at MacPorts

2008-05-09T08:13:00.002-04:00

About MacPorts

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.

We provide a single software tree that attempts to track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute, without splitting them into “stable” Vs. “unstable” branches, targetting mainly the current Mac OS X release (10.5, A.K.A Leopard) and the immediately previous one (10.4, A.K.A. Tiger). There are currently 4706 ports in our tree, distributed among 78 different categories, and more are being added on a regular basis.

For information on installing MacPorts please see the installation section of their site and explore the myriad of download options they provide and the base system requirements.

Wine: MacPorts page
Winetricks: MacPorts page

Darwine 0.9.61 released

2008-05-09T06:22:00.004-04:00

Before You install, please make sure:
- Tiger users: install X11 from your Tiger Installation DVD
download and open Darwine 0.9.61
drag Darwine to the "/Applications" Folder
to delete, just drag the folder "Darwine" to the trash
known issues:
- Internet Explorer uses up to 100% CPU, which might turn on your vents
- Internet Explorer 7 might not work at all, it is really only for testing
- 1 of 4 tries downloads a corrupt "ActiveX MFC42" (maybe defective mirror?)
- there are some issues with creating wineprefix (might be X11 related)
- if You have symbols instead of letters, you lack the Microsoft Corefonts. Get them with TRiX

What's new in this release:
- Automatic updating of the WINEPREFIX directory.
- Winhelp now uses Richedit as display engine.
- Many RichEdit fixes.
- More improvements to IME support.
- More quartz fixes.
- Implementation for many more Gdiplus functions.
- Lots of bug fixes.

VirtualBox 1.6 released

2008-05-08T15:09:00.002-04:00

The first major release since being acquired by Sun Microsystems is now available. Version 1.6 has new Mac and Solaris host platform support, new high performance virtual devices, improved scalability and Web Services.

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

Solaris and Mac OS X host support
Seamless windowing for Linux and Solaris guests
Guest Additions for Solaris
A webservice API
SATA hard disk (AHCI) controller
Experimental Physical Address Extension (PAE) support

In addition, the following items were ﬁxed and/or added:

GUI: added accessibility support (508)
GUI: VM session information dialog
VBoxHeadless: renamed from VBoxVRDP
VMM: reduced host CPU load of idle guests
VMM: many ﬁxes for VT-x/SVM hardware-supported virtualization
ATA/IDE: better disk geometry compatibility with VMware images
ATA/IDE: virtualize an AHCI controller
Storage: better write optimization, prevent images from growing unnecessarily.
Network: support PXE booting with NAT
Network: ﬁxed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for Nexenta guests
NAT: improved builtin DHCP server (implemented DHCPNAK response)
NAT: port forwarding stopped when restoring the VM from a saved state
NAT: make subnet conﬁgurable
XPCOM: moved to libxml2
XPCOM: ﬁxed VBoxSVC autostart race
Audio: SoundBlaster 16 emulation
USB: ﬁxed problems with USB 2.0 devices
MacOS X: ﬁxed seamless mode
MacOS X: better desktop integration, several look’n’feel ﬁxes
MacOS X: switched to Quartz2D framebuffer
MacOS X: added support for shared folders
MacOS X: added support for clipboard integration
Solaris: added host audio playback support (experimental)
Solaris: made it possible to run VirtualBox from non-global zones
Shared Folders: made them work for NT4 guests
Shared Folders: many bugﬁxes to improve stability
Seamless windows: added support for Linux guests
Linux installer: support DKMS for compiling the kernel module
Linux host: compatibility ﬁxes with Linux 2.6.25
Windows host: support for USB devices has been signiﬁcantly improved; many additional USB devices now work
Windows Additions: automatically install AMD PCNet drivers on Vista guests
Linux additions: several ﬁxes, experimental support for RandR 1.2
Linux additions: compatibility ﬁxes with Linux 2.6.25

VirtualBox Download

Darwine Dependancies on OS X

2008-05-08T07:21:00.002-04:00

From Random tidbits of Information

Here is the full list of the Dependancies needed to compile Darwine on OS X

Tools Installed:
* Updated libtool to 2.2
* gettext 0.17
* FontForge 20080330

Libraries installed: (not all of these are required for Wine - some are dependancies of Wine's dependancies)

* libjpeg 6b
* libtiff 3.8.2
* libpng 1.2.26
* liblcms 1.17
* libexpat 2.01
* libexif 0.6.16
* libglib 2.14.6
* libsane (sane-backends) 1.0.19
* libgphoto2 2.3.1 - libgphoto2 2.4.0 and libgphoto2.4.1 both fail to compile on OS X so reverted back to this version that installs properly.
* libgpg-error 1.6
* libgcrypt 1.4.0
* libxml2 2.6.31
* libxslt 2.1.22 - When compiling, you have to specify the exact location of where libxml2 installed to. See ./configure --help for more information
* FreeType 2.3.5

Stuff that wont install:

* libieee1284 0.2.11 - This requires some things from the Linux kernel to work. It adds further support for things within libsane (iirc). However its not required for libsane to compile.
* libhal 0.5.11rc2 - This also requires some things from the Linux kernel. It provides dynamic device support.
* libcapi20 - Cant find where to download this library, It provides ISDN support.

VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 released

2008-05-06T04:44:00.002-04:00

VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 has been released and has many new and exciting features.

VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 brings support for multiple displays, tools for even easier switching to VMware Fusion, experimental support for DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2 3D acceleration, and more!

When released, VMware Fusion 2.0 will be a free downloadable upgrade for all VMware Fusion 1.x users, as a sincere thank you to VMware Fusion early adopters.

VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 is available as a free download.

Please note: Beta software can be prone to instability and bugs. Do not run beta software in mission-critical environments.

Key Features of VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1

Over the past months, we’ve listened to what our users say they already love, and what they want more of. These features are the results of that feedback, and are the first of many more to come.

True Multiple Display Support

Use up to 10 displays with VMware Fusion
VMware Fusion automatically detects multiple displays by default
Each display shows up as separate distinct “logical” display in Windows VMs—not a single very large display
Handles changes to resolution and display orientation automatically. Rotated displays show up rotated in the virtual machine
Option to use one or all displays in Full Screen mode
Unity windows can now be dragged between displays, and will maximize correctly to just the display they're on
Correctly handles plugging & unplugging display
3D supported on primary display

DirectX 9.0 with Shader Model 2 graphics

VMware was the first to add 3D graphics to virtual machines and now takes 3D in a virtual machine to the next level with support for DirectX 9.0 with Shader Model 2 graphics.

For best 3D performance, users with virtual machines not created with VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 need to do two things:

Shut down your virtual machine and go to the Virtual Machine menu and select “Upgrade Virtual Machine.”
On boot up, install the latest VMware Tools and restart the virtual machine.

DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 2 3D support is experimental in the Beta, and performance may vary dramatically based on hardware and 3D application. In the beta stage, some 3D applications that worked under VMware Fusion 1.x may experience performance degradations.

Virtual Printing

Virtual machines automatically detect and map your default Mac printer and all configured Mac printers

New Virtual Machine Library

Screenshot of last and active states for each virtual machine in Library
You can now move old and unused virtual machines to the Trash directly from the Library
Show virtual machine in Finder
Menus now act on whichever virtual machine is selected in the Library window
Default virtual machine launches when VMware Fusion does
On launch, virtual machines now default to view (Unity, Single Window, Full Screen) they had before suspend/shut down

New Settings Editor

Provides quick overview of all virtual machine settings
Works just like System Preferences
Works in Unity, Full Screen, and Single Window views
Add existing virtual hard drives to virtual machines and even optionally copy them into the virtual machine bundle
Simplified Shared Folders interface

Shared Folders Improvements

Simplified Shared Folders setup in the new Settings Editor
Shared Folders are easier to discover. New Shared Folders option in Status bar and Virtual Machine menu. Can open all Shared Folders or just a specific Shared Folder in the virtual machine
Support for Home folder (~) shortcut for Shared Folders in VMX settings file
Improved compatibility with Windows applications including QuickBooks and Visual Studio
Improved compatibility running Java applications from a Shared Folder

Integrated VMware Importer and VMware Converter (P2V)

Just choose File>Import to import your Parallels Desktop and Virtual PC for Mac virtual machines to run with VMware Fusion
Import your Boot Camp partition to a true virtual machine and take advantage of suspend/resume, snapshots, and virtual machine mobility

USB Improvements

Allow USB mice/tablets in a virtual machine without custom configuration
Faster USB Storage performance
USB devices are recognized by type in the Status bar
Improved USB robustness

Networking Improvements

Virtual machines in Bridged networking mode now know when your Mac's network connection is available or becomes unavailable, and will refresh their network address automatically
DNS and WINS server pass-through with NAT networking
Browse for Bonjour printers with NAT networking
Improved performance when using NAT networking
Manual option to override the MAC address to any MAC address in VMX settings file, previously limited to VMware-specific MAC addresses
Automatically obtain a new DHCP lease when switching between NAT/Bridged networking
Windows guests now able to join Active Directory domain with NAT networking if WINS is enabled on Mac OS X
Improved compatibility with wireless bridged networking and certain DHCP/routers (also included with VMware Fusion 1.1.2)

Unity Improvements

Virtual machines can resume and start directly in Unity view
Unity windows can now be dragged into additional displays
Quit Windows applications from the Dock icon
Unity windows now respect the Dock location and won't maximize underneath the Dock
Exposé now filters out non-application windows
Virtual machine desktop background no longer displayed on Windows apps minimized to the Dock
Drag and Drop to overlapped Unity windows now works
Cursor not hidden while typing in Unity view
Handle Unity windows without titles better
Improved window filtering for Unity view

Full Screen Improvements

Virtual machines can resume and start directly in Full Screen view
Full Screen can use one or all monitors on the Mac
Notification sheets are replaced by standalone dialogs
Support super large displays that are over 2048 (MacBook and MacBook Air) or 4096 (iMac, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro) pixels wide

Mouse and Keyboard Improvements

Support advanced USB input devices like graphics tablets
Support for more than three buttons in the Windows guests…
Gaming mouse mode: When the OS no longers draws the cursor, VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 prevents automatic mouse release along the edges of the virtual machine

(GTA) Grand Theft Auto Vice City with Wine in Ubuntu

2008-05-05T06:22:00.002-04:00

Today while browsing around I came across a nice article about getting (GTA) Grand Theft Auto Vice City to run in Wine on Ubuntu. I'm not a huge fan of posting links to torrent downloads so ive removed that link from this post. Software and Games developers have to make a living as well... Anyway, if your into torrent downloads you can find the torrent site easily enough.

Did you know GTA Vice City works in wine?
The other day I was bored... really bored... So I decided to download GTA and get it working in wine, and to my suprise it was too freakn simple. All I did was Download GTA Vice City apply no-cd-cracked.exe and started it up. Has anyone else had any great successes in getting hot games working in wine? Please let me know and let us all know how you got it to work. Here is how I got GTA Vice City working...

First I grabbed GTA Vice City off of torrenthound and downloaded the iso's to /home/$USER/GTA
So I then wanted to mount the iso's and install, I simply grabbed fuseiso and wine then added myself to the fuse group so I can mount iso's:
sudo apt-get install fuseiso wine ; sudo adduser $USER fuseiso

After those 2 install I made my iso mount directories within /home/$USER/GTA:
mkdir viceinstall ; mkdir viceplay

Lets mount these 2 iso's:
fuseiso GTA_Vice_City.iso viceinstall ; fuseiso Vice_City_Play.iso viceplay

Now Open up nautilus and change directory to /home/$USER/GTA/viceinstall and right click on setup and select run with wine windows emulator

Now the setup will popup and ask for us to install, select any wine directory, I chose ~/.wine/drive_c/GTA/ ; check radio stations if you want the lame music. The setup will ask for the second cd then navigate to the viceplay directory

Now we have one more step after the install completes, we gotta grab the patched exe, go here and grab it and copy it to: ~/.wine/drive_c/GTA or whichever directory you installed GTA to, select yes to overwrite the old exe

Once the install completes you should have a nice icon in Applications->Wine->Rockstar Gamez->Grand theft Auto Vice City->Play GTA Vice City

Now hopefully if everything went well you should be able to play, the only issue I had playing was a black model and dark cars which goes away after a while playing for some reason. Other than that the fps is faster than xp/vista.

Full Article

CrossOver for BSD systems coming soon!

2008-05-04T18:02:00.003-04:00

Today a discussion started about the availability of CrossOver for BSD systems on the CodeWeavers mailing list... And most of last month I was away on vacation and somehow missed a post made by Jeremy White the founder and CEO of Codeweavers announcing the availability of CrossOver Games for BSD systems. Jeremy also let it be known that CrossOver Office 7 will be supported on BSD systems as well! Below is a quote of Jeremy's announce to the mailing list.

Hi Folks,

I am happy to announce that we are now making available 'cutting edge' builds of CrossOver. To start, we are providing experimental builds of CrossOver Games for Linux, Mac OS X, and now BSD systems.

We remain committed to providing our customers with a stable, and reliable product; one that has been tested thoroughly. So even though we are the major driving force behind Wine, CrossOver always lags behind Wine so that we can do careful development and testing.

Further, we feel strongly that most of our customers are best served by the stable, shipping version of CrossOver.

Of course, that leaves out a few of our customers who would be well served by these cutting edge builds, and it also sometimes frustrates our developers, who like to be able to make their work available to our customers more rapidly.

So starting today, our CrossOver Games customers are able to dip their toe into the 'cutting edge' and download an experimental build. This also marks the first time we've provided a build of any kind for BSD users.

To do so, you must first login to our web site, and then visit this web page: Codeweavers unsupported downloads

*PLEASE NOTE*
This is not for everyone. In fact, most people should just delete this email and pretend they never saw it. If you are not technically savvy, and willing to suffer the problems that *will* arise with experimental builds, you should stay away. If you're not willing to have any problems you report be completely ignored by us, you should stay away. But if you like to play with the bleeding edge, or perhaps have a problem that you know we've solved in Wine, then maybe, just maybe, this will bring you some joy.

Cheers,

Jeremy

p.s. To reduce traffic on this mailing list, we plan to communicate all future information about the experimental releases in these forums: CodeWeavers unsupported forum
If you're interested in these builds, you may want to go there and subscribe.

If your favorite OS is PC-BSD, and your currently not a current Codeweavers customer you can go to the Codeweavers store and purchase a licence for Linux and then log into your account and get the PC-BSD build. This is your chance to beta test CrossOver for BSD, report bugs, give feedback, and make suggestions.

UPDATE:

This version will run on FreeBSD as well. The only caveat is that if you are on FreeBSD 6.x, you will need to apply a system patch from http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine to enable wine to function properly. Users of FreeBSD 7.0 and higher do not need this patch.

Import your Wine applications with Wine Import

2008-05-04T10:44:00.003-04:00

From the PlayOnLinux site
Hello,

Here is some great news to announce, the creation of a new plugin for PlayOnLinux: Wine Import.

It allows you to import an existing Wine prefix into PlayOnLinux in order to add (in PlayOnLinux) your applications that have been previously installed.

To test it, go to the download page :-)

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PlayOnLinux is seeking icons for games

2008-05-04T10:34:00.003-04:00

From the PlayOnLinux site
Hello everybody,

Since last versions, we included in "Install" a scripted games' list with icons.

But since we don't own every game, we need you, our POLian friends, to extract the games' icons in order to complete the list and make PlayOnLinux more convivial.

If you want to help us, get icons from the CDs only (you can extract them from the .exe files). Once it's done, follow these instructions (which will save a lot of our time) :

Link to the full Article

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Darwine 0.9.60 released

2008-05-04T07:57:00.005-04:00

From Random tidbits of Information

Instead of having to compile or run a script to set Wine or Darwine up fully (fonts stuff mostly), I've packaged everything into a .pkg that installs the latest version of Darwine, FontForge, FreeType, and symlinks fonts from /Library/Fonts to the proper directory for Darwine to use. Enjoy!

These builds are and will always be Intel only. Wine, and by extension, these builds of Darwine do not emulate anything. It is an API layer. For it to run on PPC, it would need to emulate some x86 stuff. This is what Darwine originally attempted to do in combination with QEMU, however it is no longer necessary with the switch to Intel.

Be sure to have the latest version of XQuartz installed.

Latest
Leopard, Darwine 0.9.60, Freetype 2.3.5, FontForge py25-20080330, Symlinks fonts, Darwine SDK.

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PlayOnLinux announces it's first birthday

2008-05-03T06:29:00.002-04:00

Today PlayOnLinux announced the first year of existence of their project. In order to celebrate it, they made a little summary of PlayOnLinux's improvements for those who weren't there since the beginning. :)

Version 0.1 Charming, isn't it?

Version 0.5 Yet more pleasant...

Versio 1.2 A little interface had never hurted anyone. "Thank you Zenity"

Version 1.4 First version of the PlayOnLinux's "language". The first non-official scripts appear.

Version 2.7.1 The latest version as of 05/04/08

As you can see, the project has evolved a lot since it's beginnings.

Happy Birthday PlayOnLinux!

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CrossOver keeping up with Wine

2008-05-02T16:12:00.001-04:00

While browsing CodeWeavers site today I came across this post by Jeremy White, the founder and CEO of CodeWeavers.

I thought I'd take a minute to go a little more in depth on our recent announcement of 'experimental' builds of CrossOver.

It is a very exciting time for Wine - we've been making great strides on our way to Wine 1.0, and I'm thrilled with that progress. But sometimes we struggle with the success and progress of Wine. We'll get customers that come to us and say "CrossOver stinks, Wine runs my application much better." And what can be deeply frustrating is that often Wine will run their application because of our work. This has long been a struggle for us; while we do a lot of the active development on Wine, we take a lot of time to refine that and polish it so that it works reliably before we ship a CrossOver release. Sometimes that makes people complain that CrossOver is old and dull when compared to Wine.

Of course, if you've ever done technical support, you know that dull is good.

But many of our customers don't want dull. They want latest and greatest, the more bleeding edge, the better. And since we're often doing the bleeding edge work, it can be frustrating not to be able to give our customers our very latest work.

So now we have a facility that lets our developers take control. Any developer can now request of our QA lead to have a development build 'blessed'. If the QA lead does a modicum of testing, and feels that it is good enough, then we'll put the build up. That should hopefully speed up the process of making experimental builds available, and allow our developers to more directly interact with our customers.

In reality the best way to support Wine is to purchase a copy of CrossOver for Games or Productivity applications. Personally, I look at a purchase as a small investment in the future of Wine and CrossOver. A small investment made today can go a long way in insuring the future of our favorite open source application.

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The making of Wine (how to make Windows apps merrier with Linux)

2008-05-02T15:45:00.005-04:00

I came across a article where Jeremy White, co-founder and CEO of CodeWeavers, talked to Microsoft Subnet. And yes I would agree Wine is "an amazing technological marvel." Here is a small part of that article and a link to the full story.

Jeremy White, co-founder and CEO of CodeWeavers, talked to Microsoft Subnet today about how Wine might make IT professionals a lot merrier. For those wanting to save money on desktops by using Linux, but feel trapped into Windows because of the need to run Windows apps, Wine can help. Ten days ago, the folks at CodeWeavers released the almost official version of this open source project that allows Windows programs to run on Linux and Mac desktops. Wine is on course for official release, its 1.0 version, in the next 60 days.

It's been a long road for Wine and White. He's been working on the project since 1999 when he hired Wine's primary developer, Alexandre Julliard. White then put CodeWeavers, the startup he founded three years earlier, to work bringing Wine to fruition. And Wine had been aging prior to that. The 1.0 version is slated to ship on June 6, which is actually the 15-year anniversary of the project's inception. To be sure, it didn't take that long for CodeWeavers to ship a commercial product, CrossOver. The first was available in 2002. CrossOver, which uses the Wine code at its core, now features three versions, CrossOver Linux, CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Games.

But the goal has always been to send out a fully open source version of Wine, White says. When you think about it, in 1999, such a goal was way ahead of its time. 1999 was the year of hype and IPOs for the industry. True, server Linux had captured Wall Street's attention, but it certainly had not captured a whole lot of market share in the enterprise yet. Still, that year, the young OS starred in two of the most frenzied pre-bubble IPOs to date, Red Hat and VA Linux. (Just for fun - check out this timeline of Linux.) While industry pundits were mouthing off about how Linux would take down Microsoft, hardly anyone was seriously considering desktop Linux.

Flash forward to today. It's been the better part of a decade and Microsoft has not been toppled by anyone's reckoning. However it did release Vista - perhaps the most hated Windows operating system of all time (though it's hard to beat Windows ME on that count). Enterprises badly want alternatives to Windows. Desktop Linux has come a long way since 1999, too. and (who knew?) the Mac has become the ultra chic, must-have PC. The enterprise has its alternatives - if it can only get those mission critical Windows apps to work flawlessly. Wine, in its commercial form, has been doing so for years.

Link to the Full Article

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Wine 1.0 code freeze! RC1 in 6 days!

2008-05-02T15:45:00.004-04:00

Dan Kegel the Wine 1.0 release manager today posted the below email to the Wine-Development mailing list. The email has changes since last week (with category and votes) and other information that I though might be of interest.

Bet you never thought it would happen!

The code freeze will be less rigid at first, but we're serious about not destabilizing Wine at this point. So go ahead and post your patches, but make sure you've got your ducks in a row, and don't be surprised if Alexandre pushes back.

A clickable version of the following info is at
http://kegel.com/wine/countdown.html

Wine Release Countdown:

Wine 1.0 now in code freeze. 6 days to first release candidate.

See WineReleasePlan for details.

wine-0.9.61 was released on Friday, May 2nd, 2008. Wine is now in a code freeze in preparation for the 1.0 release.

According to http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan, wine-1.0.0-rc1, due out Friday, May 9, 2008, will be the first release candidate for 1.0.

During the code freeze, patches that

* are simple
* come with a conformance test
* fix a regression
* are low risk

are more likely to get in than other patches. (Heck, that's always true, but it's even truer during a freeze.) We will actively discourage patches that might endanger a June 1.0 release.

Bug Status :

There are 45 open 1.0 bugs as of 2 May. Most of these will simply be rolled over to be fixed for a later release; we only have time to fix a few, and much as we'd like to fix the rest, most are not
showstoppers.

Changes since last week (with category and votes):

New (!):
10288 programs 0 wine_gecko download hangs sometimes
11584 directx- 0 Multiple games crash with stack
overflow error
12263 opengl 2 Sketchup Cannot initialize OpenGL
- ChoosePixelFormat fails
12730 gdi32 1 gdi32: some tests fail when X is
run in 16 bit mode, but not 32 bit
12914 tools 1 wineprefixcreate overrides custom
entries in Explorer\\Shell Folders

Fixed:
9039 kernel32 0 GS-Auftrag Professional SQL aborts
on startup
9959 -unknown 9 Make wine updates work even if the
registry changed
10984 winex11. 6 sun jre 5 update 10 installer
hangs in 0.9.52
11019 winex11. 4 matlab r14 and r16 (7.0.4 and
7.3.0) and WriteItNow3.1.0s hang if X in 24bpp mode
12666 -unknown 0 Wine should refuse to run if
pointed at a real Windows

Deferred:
556 build-en 1 Reconcile the Windows and Wine spec files
1114 comctl32 3 Winrar2.90/3.00: Comboex doesn't
trigger a event when you mouse-click in some value of it
1990 winex11. 1 modifier keys not released when
switching desktop
3297 winex11. 13 UpdateWindow() doesn't call XFlush()
3546 shdocvw 2 CLSID_InternetShortcut not available...
4372 comctl32 1 listview: cannot drag several items
5055 -unknown 5 Deleting files from a window in
wine doesn't send them to the Trash
5351 kernel32 11 Windows Installer 3.1 cannot
install because of non-standard drive labeling
5623 winex11. 4 GetAsyncKeyState wrong if querying
process doesn't have focus
5625 wininet 4 Wine does not handle internet
proxy settings conveniently
5828 winex11. 25 Command and Conquer Generals (Zero
Hour) doesn't change the mouse cursor from the default X mouse
7098 mscoree 1 RufzXP crashes on startup, needs
mscoree.dll.CorBindToRuntimeEx
8095 ole 0 PQ Teaching toy crashes
9030 directx- 0 army men hangs on black screen
9304 shdocvw 4 Temple of Elemental Evil demo
doesn't start - gui irresponsive
10815 -unknown 5 Cannot drag images into Adobe
Photoshop 7 from the web / desktop
10905 shell32 0 thinstall firefox demo requires
native msvcrt
11681 directx- 17 Add support for video overlay

Here's the full list of current bugs:

Link to the full list of current bugs and original post.

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Wine 0.9.61 Released start of code freeze for 1.0!

2008-05-02T13:25:00.005-04:00

Wine 0.9.61 was released today, with the following main changes:

Automatic updating of the WINEPREFIX directory.
Winhelp now uses Richedit as display engine.
Many RichEdit fixes.
More improvements to IME support.
More quartz fixes.
Implementation for many more Gdiplus functions.
Lots of bug fixes.

From the Release Schedule, this is the start of code freeze for Wine 1.0!

Bug Fixes in this release:

Bugs fixed since 0.9.60:

3884 3DMark 2001 SE dies into debugger when trying to display about screen
4252 The Sting demo crashes
5130 Faststone Image Viewer crashes on exit
5159 Microphone xmit in Half Life and HL:S games very harsh and goes in and out of "focus"
6710 Mouse is invisible in Act of War : Direct Action
7111 D3D & Via seems to don't work fine together...
7157 MetaEditor Help Navigator Doesn't Work.
7398 lockon crashes with null pointer dereference during loading
7864 VobBlanker: Hangs when X-11 closes child window.
7867 drmMap Failes -- Multiple Monitors:
7881 JRE 1.3.1: RuntimeException in sun.awt.Win32GraphicsDevice.getDefaultPixIDImpl(Native Method)
8171 Strict Pasv response check should be modified.
8300 Title bar shown in window style that does not have one
8447 VobBlanker Crashes when openin some DVDs
8520 combobox dropdown area should be customisable
8720 Monopoly Tycoon demo crashes at startup
8790 Sea Dogs: infinite loop on startup
8960 lack of GLX causes wine to crash
9039 GS-Auftrag Professional SQL aborts on startup
9093 NexusTK crashes at start
9115 unable to run setup for Office 2003
9257 Day of Defeat (a Half-Life 1 mod) - Mouse & Graphic
9388 installer stuck for TRS 2006 Demo
9959 Make wine updates work even if the registry changed
10128 winecfg: not launching
10198 IE’s writing-mode:tb-rl (CJK-style vertical text layout) renders fullwidth characters rotated when it should not
10411 Synergy HL2 mod crashes in IHTMLWindow2_Release
10676 Sega rally 2 crashes on start
10984 sun jre 5 update 10 installer hangs in 0.9.52
11019 matlab r14 and r16 (7.0.4 and 7.3.0) and WriteItNow3.1.0s hang if X in 24bpp mode
11191 Chief Architect refuses to install
11196 Adobe Acrobat Reader 3: Text of the Document is displayed as big black boxes
11402 Date selector not displayed in Lotus Notes 7.0.2
11647 mspaint: Multiple copy / paste operations will cause an exception
11656 FarCry InstallShield wizard cannot be completed
11741 ClocX installer has a z-order problem
11806 regedit creates bogus hex:(1) value instead of empty ""
11818 matlab r16 / 2006b / 7.3.0 hangs on startup with X in 16bpp mode
11830 oRipa MSN Webcam Recorder crashes with page fault, backtrace in user32
11875 Wine crashes and won't initialize any type of application
11900 Unimplemented function msftedit.dll.DllGetVersion preventing proper detection of richedit from Miranda IM History++ plugin
12054 D3D9: Device test fails
12127 Kai Power Tools filters z-order problem in Photoshop (7, CS2)
12149 winedbg crashes loading a .pdb file
12180 MSN Messenger 7.0 crash while configuring the Webcam
12191 X11DRV_ChoosePixelFormat fails (Wing Commander: Secret Ops)
12281 msxml3 test case fails
12416 Deus Ex and Syberia2 both have corrupted graphics in 0.9.59
12420 wine 0.59 and kyodai
12466 Chinese input method not working in DirectX game World of Warcraft with wine 0.9.59
12478 Palringo: Pressing shift-enter in a chat window closes it
12494 -lGLU flag not activated
12555 Battlefield 1942 crashes when having joysticks attached
12569 Window of PSPad is flashing, when new file is opened
12575 Photoshop CS2 installer crashes in msi:ACTION_CallDllFunction
12596 Picasa no longer starts maximized in KDE
12610 Ctrl and Alt do not work in Guild Wars
12621 Abilty to set virtual desktop on a per app basis
12640 Applications written in Delphi has got minimize, maximize and size controls disabled for its item in taskbar
12644 GTA 3 Liberty City: texture corruption on cards with GL_EXT_paletted_texture
12656 EVE Online light effects and some other objects are not blended correctly
12657 Bad textures/shading in Dream Aquarium (white fishes)
12666 Wine should refuse to run if pointed at a real Windows
12695 when calling wineprefixcreate from wine launcher, WINEPREFIX is ignored
12707 some winemenubuilder processes never exit
12712 OpenGL Application crashes with GLX error
12727 non-fatal crash accompanies every program start
12747 Trying to get Electric Quilt 6 working
12761 net start spooler results in an infinite loop
12763 Wineboot: Can't run wine cross test
12765 Regression in ResHacker in wine-0.9.60
12769 control + enter sending the wrong key code
12770 Build breaks
12772 imm32: imm32.ok test fails
12781 Dungeon Siege graphics problems since removing the pixel format limitation
12825 Xdrive Desktop Lite Crashes after login
12837 Stack trace in socket.c when starting Call of Duty multiplayer
12845 Mono 1.9.1 installer EULA is not rendered due to richedit regression
12855 opengl.ok test fails in PC-BSD but not Linux
12860 magic the gathering online v3 doesn't run
12898 EasyUO: disappears when reduced but still running
12904 Thief The Dark Project crashes on game start

For the full changelog see the WineHQ Announce

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