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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
Wine Weekly News Issue 225
June 04, 2004
Wine Weekly News Issue 224
May 28, 2004
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
Wine Weekly News Issue 222
May 14, 2004
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
Wine Weekly News Issue 220
April 23, 2004
Wine Weekly News Issue 219
April 16, 2004
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
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
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
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March 19, 2004
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March 12, 2004
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...