Wine 1.5.5 released

The Wine development release 1.5.5 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):

- Support for installing Mono as a Wine add-on package.
- Dithering of pattern brushes in the DIB engine.
- Support for installing the .NET 4.0 runtime.
- DDS files supported in D3DX9.
- Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.5.5.tar.bz2 http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.5/wine-1.5.5.tar.bz2

For the complete list of bug fixes follow this link:

http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.5.5

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PlayOnLinux 4.1 released

Sorry for the lack of news about it!
PlayOnLinux 4.1 has been released.
Here's the changelog:


- PlayOnLinux can open documents, and manage extensions
- A new debugger
- A new configure window
- Optirun support
- System check on startup
- Lot of bug fixed (proxy settings, cdrom problems, wget, ...)
- UTF-8 problems fixed
- Install window : you can see the screenshots in big size by clicking on it
- A bug for Ubuntu 12.04 users that prevented PlayOnLinux from running is fixed
- Bugfix : POL prevented wine from running when the .exe was installed in a bad filesystem (instead of just alerting)
- Wine architectures problem should be fixed
- Ability to run custom commands before starting a program or a game
- Bugs fixed : 72, 561
- 64bits prefixes creation support


Download it from:


http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

Screenshot of the week #10

"Shut the f**k up! I'm watching my favourite tv show!" - Max Payne 2 - 1920x1080 - Max details

Screenshot of the week #9

"Cinematic point-of-view of Max Payne" - Max Payne - 1920x1080 - Max details

Wine 1.5.4 released

The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
  - A new DirectSound resampler.
  - A Negotiate authentication provider.
  - OpenGL support in the DIB engine.
  - Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies.
  - Support routines for Internationalized Domain Names.
  - Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

  http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.5.4.tar.bz2
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.5.4.tar.bz2

For the complete bug fixes list follow this link:

http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.5.4

Screenshot of the week #8

"Who the hell left a voodoo doll on the floor? Those kids..." - Metro 2033 - 1920x1080 - High details