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Wine 20040615 Released

June 15, 2004

What's new in this release:

  • Major winedbg rewrite using the dbghelp dll.
  • New Wine preloader to reserve memory areas at startup.
  • Many improvements to the audio support.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Read more about this release, or just go download it.

Interview with Lionel Ulmer

June 15, 2004

Over the past year and half Wine's DirectX support has improved immensely. Lionel Ulmer is one of the driving forces behind that effort and this week we took a moment to talk with him about it.

read the interview...

Wine Weekly News Issue 226

June 11, 2004

WWN Issue 226 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 225

June 04, 2004

WWN Issue 225 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 224

May 28, 2004

WWN Issue 224 was released today.

Interview with Steven Edwards

May 25, 2004

We got a chance recently to sit down Steven Edwards and grill him about Wine, ReactOS, and everything in between.
read the interview...

Wine Weekly News Issue 223

May 21, 2004

WWN Issue 223 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 222

May 14, 2004

WWN Issue 222 was released today.

CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office 3.0 released

May 11, 2004

CrossOver Office 3.0 is available for purchase from CodeWeavers' website. This is the first major release of the product in over a year. Some of the news things you'll find are:
  • Newly added support for Lotus Notes (versions 5.0 and 6.5.1), Microsoft Project, and Outlook XP
  • Merged codebases between CrossOver Office, CrossOver Plugin, and Wine. That means CrossOver Office now includes all the features of CrossOver Plugin and there's no need to purchase two separate products.
  • A new licensing program intended to appeal to the needs of home users versus business users accompanies the new features. Appropriately, there are different price points as well.

Wine 20040505 Released

May 10, 2004

What's new in this release:

  • Many more filesystem improvements, including autodetection of drive types and devices, and support for editing the drive configuration with winecfg.
  • Many Direct3D improvements.
  • Several fixes to the various sound drivers.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Read more about this release, or just go download it.

Interview with Mike Hearn

May 6, 2004

WineHQ is hosting another series of interviews with Wine developers. Mike Hearn is interviewed by Brian Vincent in the first of our series of interviews for 2004.
read the interview...

Wine Weekly News Issue 221

April 30, 2004

WWN Issue 221 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 220

April 23, 2004

WWN Issue 220 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 219

April 16, 2004

WWN Issue 219 was released today.

TransGaming's WineX 3.3.1 Released

April 13, 2004

TransGaming released WineX 3.3.1 today. "WineX 3.3.1 is primarily a bug fix release. However, it also includes a number of DirectX 9 related changes to make the present patch level of EverQuest work, and a major reduction in sound latency." For more information, see the release notes.

Wine 20040408 Released

April 10, 2004

What's new in this release:

  • DOS devices and drives are now configured through symlinks.
  • Many shell32 improvements.
  • New task manager merged from ReactOS.
  • First version of wineprefixcreate tool for initial setup.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Read more about this release, or just go download it.

Wine Weekly News Issue 218

April 9, 2004

WWN Issue 218 was released today.

IBM developerWorks Tutorial

April 7, 2004

IBM's developerWorks published "A taste of Wine: Transition from Windows to Linux" today. (23 April 2004 - Google's cache still has a copy, but it's been removed from IBM's website.) For years IBM's articles have gone in-depth on subjects and provided more information than your average technical article. This one is no exception and covers everything from Wine's underlying architecture to creating a Winelib app. There's something in there for everyone, check it out.

Wine Weekly News Issue 217

April 2, 2004

WWN Issue 217 was released today.

Onebase Linux Supports Wine

March 31, 2004

Onebase Linux announced support for Wine using a custom configuration system. Their Wine Gallery lists applications you can run and includes MS Word View, Sim City 3000, and Dreamweaver MX. For more information about this Linux distro, check out their website. Thanks to Frank's Corner for finding this link.

WineHQ Site Updates

March 30, 2004

WineHQ has seen quite a few additions over the past week. We're now able to display the completion of various API's from release to release. The source to the Wine Application Database was released and is available via CVS (as well as browsable via LXR.) One of the first new additions linked apps to bugs filed in BugZilla. The To Do List has seen updates from several areas, including more things bumped into the DONE category. Finally, Mike McCormack suggested three new fun projects someone might be interested in tackling:
  • implementation of jscript.dll using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey
  • implementation of Image Color Management, mscms.dll, using Little CMS
  • implementation of cryptography functions using OpenSSL's libcrypto.so

Wine Weekly News Issue 216

March 26, 2004

WWN Issue 216 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 215

March 19, 2004

WWN Issue 215 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 214

March 12, 2004

WWN Issue 214 was released today.

Wine 20040309 Released

March 9, 2004

  • Much improved winegcc tool, now used to build Wine itself.
  • VxDs are now separate libraries for better modularity.
  • Improvements and simplifications to the drive configuration.
  • New setupapi INF script to create the initial registry.
  • Many improvements to the various multimedia dlls.
  • Lots of bug fixes.
read more about this release...