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CrossOver Games 10.2.0 for Linux and Mac has been released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:48:50 +0000

CodeWeavers has released a maintenance update for CrossOver Games, version 10.2.0 change log with some of the many changes made in this releases is provided below.

Change Log For CrossOver Games

10.2.0 CrossOver Games

Worked around the 'backwards elbow' bug in Rift on Lion.
Fixed behavior of Plants vs. Zombies in windowed mode.
Improved loading and play of Portal 2.
Fixed 'Add a Character Friend' behavior in StarCraft 2.
Fixed the Perfect World International launcher.
Added a 'steamid' tag to the CrossTie format. This allows a CrossTie to install and detect games via Steam.

Wine 1.3.30 Released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:52:10 +0000

The Wine development release 1.3.30 is now available.

What's new in this release:

DirectSound reimplemented on top of MMDevAPI.
Support for StretchBlt in the DIB engine.
User interface improvements in HTML help.
Some MSXML fixes.
Performance improvements in cmd.
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 1.3.30:

CrossOver 10.1.1 and CrossOver Games 10.1.2 released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:56:41 +0000

CodeWeavers has released a maintenance update for CrossOver and CrossOver Games, the change logs with some of the many changes made in the releases are provided below.

Change Log For CrossOver Games

10.1.2 CrossOver Games

Added a workaround for a bug in OS X 10.7 Lion. Many games running in a virtual desktop cause a crash. This can be resolved by setting the CX_LEAK_XPLUGIN_SURFACES environment variable.
Work around a bug in OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. 10.6.8 generated corrupt icon files which caused occasional Finder crashes. Now we use a different API to generate icon files which bypasses the issue.
Changed behavior of group permissions on certain files. Resolves an issue with .docx files on certain file systems.

Alexandre Julliard Wineconf 2011 keynote

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:47:13 +0000

Jon Parshall the COO at CodeWeavers posted a video of Alexandre Julliard's Wineconf 2011 keynote. Alexandre Julliard, is the Maintainer of the Wine Project, in his keynote he describes the current state of Wine, and what's in the works for upcoming Wine 1.4 release.

Mac Review Crossover Games 10

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:30:06 +0000

Once upon a time, Mac was a happy little gaming platform, with such breakout releases as Puzzle, Through the Looking Glass and Myst. But then a tragedy fell upon the world of Mac, their arch-nemesis Microsoft created an evil potion called Direct X, and Microsoft slipped this poison into the drinks of game developers. Upon consuming this poison, the developers turned into mindless slaves, to be controlled by the evil Microsoft, and at Microsofts bidding, the developers stole games away from their Mac homesteads.

For years upon years, nobody heard Mac’s plight to have these games returned to them, but eventually a hero heard the cries of help from distressed Macs everywhere, and this brave hero, who we shall call Jeremy White (or Jer, for short), banded together a ~~gaggle~~ ~~plethora~~ ~~school~~table of brave knights and knightesses, whom he called CodeWeavers.

Together, the CodeWeavers found a way for both Mac and PC to share games (and not just games, but other software) together, but over all the years a lot of games had fallen victim to stockholm syndrome, and so the CodeWeavers had to find a way to trick these games into playing with their Mac parents and siblings, and so they created a Direct X anti-venom, which they dubbed “Cross-over Games”.

Wineskin Winery 1.2 Released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:15:03 +0000

Just a couple of small updates, but getting in gear for a Wineskin 2.5 update and WS8 engines soon, so thought I'd get the Winery bugs fixed and pushed out.

Downloaded Engines, and Engines you ignore will never prompt as new again
If your downloaded engine is corrupted, Wineskin Winery will prompt you instead of trying to build and making a broken wrapper.

Have fun!

Wineskin 2.4 has been released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:22:29 +0000

Wineskin 2.4 update is available. You should see it available in Wineskin Winery, as well as the manual install version at the MediaFire download location

Only a few changes in this version

Mapping user folders is much more customizable now
Fixed the bug where Override->Fullscreen pushed the picture down slightly
Option added to set "Focus Follows Mouse" for WineskinX11, instead of always being on

Since Codeweavers put up source code to the Wine they used for Crossover 10.1.0 and Crossover Games 10.1.1, I went ahead and built some engines with them. I'm not sure they are drastically different than the one previous versions though... maybe a few alterations.

WS7WineCX10.1.0 and WS7WineCXG10.1.1 are available in Wineskin Winery and for Manual Download.

CodeWeavers Tagline Contest

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:18:16 +0000

So we've been thinking here at the CodeWeavers ranch that we need a good tagline to summarize what we do in a 8 words or less. Something as unforgettable as Milk's "Got Milk?" Or as timeless as Nike's "Just Do It!" Or as awesome as Timex, "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking." Sure, we could do it ourselves, but we would rather open it up to our loyal customers and fans and reward them with an 8 GB iPod touch. Enter as many taglines as you wish by filling out the form below or mailing us your submission to 700 Raymond Ave. Suite 120, St. Paul, MN 55114.. Contest runs from July 1, 2011 through July 22, 2011. The marketing department will handpick the winner and not only will you win an iPod Touch, you will also get to see your tagline displayed on our future website!

q4wine 0.121 released

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:27:23 +0000

Here it is time for a new q4wine release tagged by the 0.121 version.

Changes since 0.120-r1 are:

Added:

updated winetricks plugin;
option to make Prefix view unexpanded at startup;
Polish translation by Frank (nobange);
interoperability of wineprefixes between q4wine, wibom, vineyard, and winetricks (and maybe playonlinux) BottleSpec.
German translation by Ron;
experimental build support for Mac OS X;
extended virtual desktop resolution list [3150062];
request for language locale support [3144001 and 3149056];
Hebrew translation by Yaron Shahrabani;
Prefix alphabetic sort;

Fixed:

The racing simulator rFactor on Mac and Linux!

twickline@gmail.com (Tom Wickline) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:45:35 +0000

Don't get left in the dust Mac and Linux users, play rFactor today with CrossOver Games! Arguably, one of the best computer racing simulators, rFactor aims at being one of the most accurate simulator of its time. Play with a computer steering wheel, joystick or even a keyboard. To learn more about rFactor, visit the rFactor website.

How to play rFactor with CrossOver Games 10.1?
First, watch our instructional video on how to install CrossOver Games in order to run rFactor on Mac. Once you have finished watching our short video, download a free trial of CrossOver Games. If you like it, be sure to come back to this page to purchase CrossOver Games at a 25% discounted rate.