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Devil May Cry 4 is aviable

GNU_Raziel — Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:49:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

In Devil May Cry 4, the player controls both Nero and Dante, and fights enemies in close combat using firearms, swords, and other weapons. The characters Lady and Trish from previous games in the series make appearances, along with new characters Nero, Kyrie, Credo, Gloria, and Agnus.

Here is a preview of how it run using Capture plugin :

For more details, you can go on PlayOnLinux forum HERE

Note :
The following scripts have been updated :
-Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
-Dark Messiah Patch 1.02
-Halo Combat Evolved
-Halo Patch 1.08
-The Witcher
-The Witcher Enhanced Edition
-The Witcher Patch 1.5

Have a good game

Capture 2.1: Record your software with PlayOnLinux

MulX — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:03:00 +0100

Hi!

This new release of Capture come with only one change: You can now record your software even if it isn't in OpenGL!
To use this new feature a choice is proposed when you start the plugin, after you have to choose what software to record. Recording start automaticly after five seconds. To stop capture press SHIFT+F8.

This is an example:

This plugin is available into Downloads section.

Note:
There is no sound when capturing and you get Theora/Vorbis files, you can add PlayOnLinux logo like OpenGL capture.

By
GNU_Raziel.

Help PlayOnLinux by translating it in your own language!

MulX — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:05:00 +0100

Hi all!

With the opening of the git repository, we have another great news!

You can help the project by translating strings displayed within PlayOnLinux in your language, and you can also review already translated strings.

To translate, you have to go on our translation page: https://translations.launchpad.net/playonlinux.
Note that a Launchpad account is needed.

Then, all your modifications will be imported into the main git repository before each new release.

EDIT: I've changed the name of .po file (what you translate) on the git. So please wait a few moment before translating. We need to wait a sync with launchpad; This one will happen in few hours.
Apologies,
MulX

EDIT #2: fixed you can continue translating

Wolfenstein (version 2009) is aviable

GNU_Raziel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:29:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

In this game, you’ll still run the show as OSA stud B.J. Blazkowicz, but the mission stakes have been raised a great deal for Wolfenstein. Instead of only plodding along in a boring, normal dimension, Raven has built the storyline and gameplay of Wolfenstein to take part in a parallel dimension—known as the Veil—as well. In terms of the game’s story, the Veil is the key to the Nazis’ ability to make super weapons that would accelerate their bid for world dominance.

For more details, you can go on PlayOnLinux forum HERE

Have a good game

PlayOnLinux 3.8 is available

Tinou — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:10:00 +0100

Hi everybody!

PlayOnLinux 3.8 is now out!

A lot of bugs have been fixed

- Fixed Bug #22,
- Ukranian file should be called uk.po instead ua.po,
- PlayOnLinux can no longer run in it's own environement,
- The program does not alert the user that 3D acceleration is not present when mesa-utils packet is not installed,
- Fixed a bug in libraries loading,
- Fixed bug in Wine Import plugin and Offline PlayOnLinux plugin,
- Some cleaning.

A lot of new features

Some plugins are now integrated in our software, adding a lot of features:
- Capture will allow you to record your games,
- Wine Import will allow you to add Wine apps into PlayOnLinux, and uses our features for it,
- Cedega Import will let you import your Cedega games,
- Wine Look will help you to change the color of your Wine application to fit better with your desktop,
- Advanced Wine Configuration will give you access to a lot of tweaks for Wine,
- Offline PlayOnLinux will allow you to run PlayOnLinux without internet access, by running locally a server script.

For scriptors

- POL_GetSetupImages and POL_SetupWindow_InitWithImages will help you to manage top and left images for your scripts. Here is an example:

Code PLAYONLINUX:

POL_GetSetupImages &quot;http://www.mywebsite.com/left.jpg&quot; &quot;http://www.mywebsite.com/top.png&quot; &quot;script_name&quot;
POL_SetupWindow_InitWithImages # Replace POL_SetupWindow_Init

- playonlinux-shell (run it in a terminal) will give you access to PlayOnLinux debugging shell.

Some explanations for 3.7.7 features

- POL_SetupWindow_auto_shortcut will allow you to create a shortcut without giving the name of the directory.
Example:

Code PLAYONLINUX:

POL_SetupWindow_auto_shortcut &quot;my_wineprefix&quot; &quot;My_Program.exe&quot; &quot;My_icon.png&quot; &quot;Program name&quot;

- POL_SetupError will close the script if a command fails.
Example:

Code PLAYONLINUX:

cd /repertoire || POL_SetupError &quot;/repertoire does not exists&quot;

We advise you to update your PlayOnLinux version.

Download

Capture 2.0.1 - Record your games with PlayOnLinux

Tinou — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:17:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

Capture 2.0.1 is now available

What's new ?

- Use of GLC 0.5.8
- wine-thread is no longer needed
- Automatic detection of a 16 multiple resolution
- Ability to encode in x264/FAAC, XviD/MP3, Theora/Vorbis ou MP4/FAAC (compatible iPod Touch/iPhone)
- Ability to add PlayOnLinux logo 3 seconds at the begining of the video

Here is a preview of the result :

Remind :
To start/stop recording, use SHIFT+F8 while playing, capture will automatically be stored in POL_Capture folder in your home directory.

This plugin is available in download section, and will be integrated in the next PlayOnLinux version

Notice :
Please ensure to have a version libavformat-extra-52 that support FAAC audio codec. Ubuntu users may add this repository medibuntu.

Good game

GNU_Raziel

Monkey Island 2 - Special edition is available

Tinou — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:14:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

After having beaten LeChuck, Guybrush Threepwood is back in a new adventure to find the treasure Big Whoop. But his enemy is also back and want to prevent him from getting the treasure. Monkey Island 2 : LeChuck's Revenge : Special Edition is a remake of the original game with HD graphism

For me details, you can go on PlayOnLinux forum HERE

Good game

By GNU_Raziel

WineBuild Demand!

MulX — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:57:00 +0100

Hi everybody!!

After more than 300 lines of code, more than 1 week of work, we are happy to announce that you can now make a custom Wine build and allow other members of PlayOnLinux community taking advantage from it.

Why we offer this kind of service?
A least, two reason. This was asked since long time ago and ... even if Wine team improve performance on each new release, for some game/software you have to use a version of Wine which was compiled with some patchs (eg: Command And Conquer 3 Kane Edition was available in PlayOnLinux a long time ago before it was fully supported by Wine. And for this one, we had used a patched wine, but in the past it was really hard to implement this one in POL).

An other nice information is that, every registered user on this site can make demand for free!

So I'm sure that you've now only one question, where I can do my request?
Well, just a second because there is all remaining information on the forum here!

Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 2 script is available

Berillions — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:27:00 +0100

Hello,

I have the pleasure to announce you that the script for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is operational and finally available on PlayOnLinux.

For reminder, the history of this game takes place 5 years after the first opus with one Russia in full civil war and the American invasion in Afghanistan.
You will go to fight under the features of three characters different as Gary " Roach " Sanderson, Joseph Allen and James Ramirez.

For further details, go to the forum HERE

Have a good game

F.E.A.R.2 : Project Origin script is available

Berillions — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:28:00 +0100

After several months, Alma WADE decided to use our fabulous application. Because PlayOnLinux has now in his repository the script for : F.E.A.R.2 : Project Origin

The game begins 10 minutes before the end of the first episode. You are Mickael BECKETT, a Delta Force operator and you and your team are in Auburn to stop Genevieve ARISTIDE, an easy mission... But, a terrible explosion shaves a part of the city. Alma is free and wants to take revenge.

For further details, go to the forum HERE

Have a good game

Using PlayOnLinux scripts offline or sharing scripts on a network is now possible !

Tinou — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 0:45:00 +0100

HI everybody

Today, a new plugin for your favourite software is available. This plugin will allows you to install all PlayOnLinux scripts without internet access !
Indeed, we had worked on numerous solutions for people who don't have internet on their computer. But these solution was partial, they were efficient only for a few scripts

Never the less, Internet access is still needed for downloading wine version

But how does it work ?

For the beginers

You just need to download the plugin here:
http://www.playonlinux.com/script_files/plugins/OfflinePlayOnLinux_0.1.pol
Then, use PlayOnLinux settings menu to install it and configure it in beginers mode
This method is easy, but you will need to have at least an access to the internet to download all our scripts.

For the advanced users

You can run your own PlayOnLinux scripts server
This server can be used for your own computer, or to share scripts through a whole network, without having access to the internet. It works on all python-compatible operating system. I tested it on Linux and Mac OS X

To install PlayOnLinux scripts server, download both of the following files
http://repository.playonlinux.com/PlayOnLinux_Server.tar.gz
http://repository.playonlinux.com/PlayOnLinux_Scripts.tar.gz

The first archive contains the scripts server, the second contains all our script database. It is updated everyday.
You have to extract these file in the same directory

Then, run the server by typing the following command in a terminal

Console:

python PlayOnLinux_Server.py

If all is ok, you should read

Console:

Ready to start the server ! Listening on port 8050

To ensure that the server is well running, browse http://localhost:8050/. The message PlayOnLinux Server is running ! should appear, confirming you that the server is running

The next step is to install Offline PlayOnLinux on all the clients. Use the expert mode. This mod will allow you to specify another adress than the official script server (http://repository.playonlinux.com)

Don't hesitate to contact me if you need help to configure this tool

Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath is now available!

MulX — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:24:00 +0100

Hi everybody!

Kane's Wrath is an expansion pack of the real-time strategy video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. It proposes a new single player campaign spanning from the rebirth of the Brotherhood of Nod after the Second Tiberium War through the dramatic events of the Third Tiberium War and beyond. In addition there is also a mode global conquest game and new units.

For more details, you can go on PlayOnLinux forum here.

Please note that, the script for Command & Conquer 3 : Tiberium Wars - Kane Edition was updated.

Have a good game

By GNU_Raziel

Secret Of Monkey Island Special Edition is available

GNU_Raziel — Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:57:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

Have you ever dreamed to become a pirate ? Do you drink grog at the breakfast ? Peg legs are trendy for you ? Then, you need to try Secret Of Monkey Island Special Edition

For more details, you can go on PlayOnLinux forum here.

Have a good game

StarCraft II Wings of Liberty script is available

GNU_Raziel — Thu, 5 Aug 2010 13:43:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

After being away for month, I'm back and I decided to strike hard for my return. Now, PlayOnLinux has StarCraft II Wings or Liberty script in his repository.

StarCraft II : Wings of Liberty features the first of three fully featured single-player campaigns, kicking things off with the terrans. Humanity's representatives in the Koprulu sector have been through a lot since they first left Earth centuries ago and have adapted to a variety of hardships while subjected to dictatorial rule, zerg invasion, and protoss cleansing. Despite these struggles, they’ve still managed to cultivate heroes, advance their technology, and-- most importantly -- survive.

For further details, go to the forum HERE

Have a good game

A bug tracker is available

Tinou — Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:51:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

Today, PlayOnLinux open its bug trackers

Some indications

- It supports differents projects (PlayOnLinux software, website, scripts)
- It is designed to work with the scripts. PlayOnLinux might have a crash manager integrated to this bug tracker in the future
- No need to re-register if you have an account on PlayOnLinux' website
- Every language are allowed. However, you will get a better support in French or in English

Why do we code our own Bug Tracker

I spent time searching an adapted bug tracker. I wanted it to be integrable to the website (for the scripts, and to allows members to have a single account). Redmine was pretty adapted, but it's coded in ruby, so it is difficult to install on debian, and it needs new apache extensions which take resources
For the moment, the bug tracker is simple, but it might be enough for a start

Access to the bug tracker

Improvement on registration page

Tinou — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:30:00 +0100

Hi everybody

Many people sent me a mail because they were not able to register to the website. Consequently, I decided to improve register page.

If you still have problem when your register, please ensure that :

- Javascript is activated
- Your email address is valid
- Your email address is not a temporary email address
- You checked your spams

Registration page

PlayOnLinux 3.7.6

Tinou — Sat, 1 May 2010 12:33:00 +0100

Hi everybody !

PlayOnLinux 3.7.6 is now available !

What's new ?

Two major bugs fixed :
- Using an old wineversion to install a program caused problems
- Compatibility with Lucid Lynx : Install window crashed when the user clicked on Install button.

We strongly recommend you to upgrade PlayOnLinux

Download

PlayOnLinux 3.7.5 is available

Tinou — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:29:00 +0100

Hi everybody !

PlayOnLinux 3.7.5 is now available !

What's new ?

- Improvement on icon managing. Thank you Congelli501 for the patch
- Manual installation now supports .msi files. PlayOnLinux automaticaly detects if the setup file is a .exe or a .msi file
- Highest rank category added in install menu. (You can vote for your favourite script)
- Most downloaded category added in install menu
- Stars behavior improved in install menu
- Added a patch category in install menu
- Added a testing zone in install menu.

Enjoy !

Download

Website is available in russian language !

Tinou — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:40:00 +0100

Hi !

I'm happy to tell you that the website is now available in russian thank's to oskasteinar.

Thank you for your help !

Wine 1.1.40 is available

Tinou — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:42:00 +0100

What changes does Wine 1.1.40 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- Support for Wow64 registry redirection.
- Increased coverage of MSI standard actions.
- Various Wordpad improvements.
- Many shell fixes for better IE support.
- Improved support for typelibs.
- Better GL card detection.
- Various bug fixes.

A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page.

This version is available on PlayOnLinux wine repository. You can also download a .pol package on the download page : http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download-wine.html.

Wine 1.1.39 (development version)

BlondVador — Thu, 4 Mar 2010 9:20:00 +0100

What changes does Wine 1.1.39 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- Support for registry symbolic links.
- Many MSI fixes.
- Build process improvements.
- MSXML cleanups and fixes.
- A number of MSHTML improvements.
- Various bug fixes.

A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page.

To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link:

You can help to translate the website!

Tinou — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:42:00 +0100

Hi everybody !

Many of you sent me a mail to help translating the website. That is why today, I built a file that contains all translations of the website.
If you want to help us, you can download this file to translate POL website in your language.

But please know that, even if you help translate the website in your tongue, we can not guarantee to open a forum section and a news section. In fact, we also need moderators and newsers for that.

But at least, the member would be able to understand the home page, the download page, the main links, the member list, private messages, etc...

The file is here : http://www.playonlinux.com/files/language_package.tar.gz

Hope we could open new translated website
Thank you for your help !

Now you can vote for your favourite scripts

Tinou — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:07:00 +0100

Here's a new feature

Now you can give a mark for each application in scripts section. In the next releases of PlayOnLinux, two category will be added : The most downloaded and the highest rated.

You do not need to register to vote for a script.

Improvement on the website : Follow us

Tinou — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:09:00 +0100

Hi everybody !

A new feature is available on the website "Follow us". Thank's to these new buttons, you will be able to follow last PlayOnLinux news on your favourite social network.

Indeed, when a news is posted in French or in English, the title is automatically added on Facebook and Twitter pages

Enjoy !

PlayOnLinux 3.7.3

Tinou — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:13:00 +0100

Hi everybody !

PlayOnLinux 3.7.3 is now available !

What's new for the users ?

- PlayOnLinux automatically extract icons during the installation process to use them in the main menu.
- A bug corrected preventing user from changing a program icon
- Few translations were corrected
- Definitive correction (we hope) of $PROGRAMFILES variable problem. Script are being rewritten.
- PlayOnLinux is now available in Greek (Thank you kapcom01)

A little bit more technical for the scriptors ...

- POL_LoadVar_PROGRAMFILES was created to assign the name of Program Files directory to $PROGRAMFILES variable. In few case, when the directory was called "Program Files", the following commande returned %ProgramFiles% instead of the real name, and it was the cause of many bugs in all the scrpts.

Code PLAYONLINUX:

wine cmd /c echo &quot;%ProgramFiles%&quot;

- POL_LoadVar_PROGRAMFILES is automatically called on prefix creating. There is no need to use it in the scripts, we just need to erase old lines that cause bugs. To be sure that the scripts will be compatible with the old version, we started to replace

Code PLAYONLINUX:

PROGRAMFILES=`wine cmd /c echo &quot;%ProgramFiles%&quot; |tr -d '\015' | tr -d '\010'`
PROGRAMFILES=${PROGRAMFILES:3}

by :

Code PLAYONLINUX:

PROGRAMFILES=&quot;Program Files&quot; 
POL_LoadVar_PROGRAMFILES

- When you make a shortcut with POL_SetupWindow_make_shortcut, if the icon argument is empty, POL will try to extract the icon from the exe file and use it.

Enjoy !

Download

PS. A new version of PlayOnMac is also available, and compatible with Snow Leopard

Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Linux Released

Tinou — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:20:00 +0100

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.0 for Linux. Bordeaux 2.0.0 marks major progress over older releases. With version 2.0.0 and onward we bundle our own Wine build and many tools and libraries that Wine depends upon. With this release we bundle Wine 1.1.36, Cabextract, Mozilla Gecko, Unzip, Wget and other support libraries and tools. We have improved support for Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and preliminary support for Internet Explorer 7 in this release, there has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks on the back-end.

The cost of Bordeaux 2.0.0 is $20.00. Anyone who has purchased Bordeaux in the past six months is entitled to a free upgrade. Bordeaux comes with six months of upgrades and support and of course a 30-day money back guarantee.

View the full article

Wine 1.1.38 (development version)

Berillions — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:36:00 +0100

What changes does Wine 1.1.38 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- Better support for memory allocations debugging.
- Improved MIDI support.
- A wide range of Direct3D fixes.
- OLEDB fixes (should fix Clipart in Office).
- Improved debugger support on x86-64.
- Many MSI fixes.
- Various bug fixes.

A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page.

To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link :

Wine 1.1.37 (development version)

Berillions — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:31:00 +0100

What changes does Wine 1.1.37 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- A number of fixes in AVI file support.
- Several MSXML improvements.
- A few MSI fixes.
- Various bug fixes

A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page.

To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link :

Help PlayOnLinux

marieuh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:59:00 +0100

To this day, PlayOnLinux has provided you with more than a hundred scripts.
Thanks to PlayOnLinux quite a few people have made their final step towards Linux. Maybe you are among those recent addition to the community.
As you know, Playonlinux allows you to use applications made for windows on the GNU/Linux operating system of your choice for free.

Perhaps you don't know that behind PlayOnLinux are dozens of people giving away their time for free to make sure there is always more material available.

PlayOnLinux is also:
- A team of administrators managing the site, the forum, the script validation and PlayOnLinux itself.
- A team of scriptors writing new scripts every day to enlarge the list of those windows applications you can now use on your GNU/Linux operating systems.
- A team of moderators working (hard) each day to make sure the forum is a nice play to be.
- A team of newsers always looking for informations that could interest you.

As you understand, PlayOnLinux is a bunch of people all working towards one goal: making sure you are satisfied

If you want to support the project, you can go to this page:
http://www.playonlinux.com/donate.html

Thank you for your help.

Wine 1.1.33 (development version)

BlondVador — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:07:00 +0100

What changes does Wine 1.1.33 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- Gecko now installed at wineprefix creation time.
- Better support for certificates in crypt32.
- Improved sound support in mciwave.
- Some more Direct3D 10 functions.
- Many cleanups for issues spotted by Valgrind.
- Various bug fixes.

A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page.

To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link: