PlayOnLinux

Microsoft is making our life harder

Dadu042 — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:28:00 +0100

Since 2021, Microsoft is making our life harder by removing old system files (DLLs ...) from their websites. They just don't move these to a 'archive web site', they just delete these...

This makes some pre 2010's softwares impossible for us to run anymore.

Sometimes we find alternatives URLs (many thanks to Internet Archive), sometimes not. And this requieres checking and updating a lot of scripts.

Dadu042

New quality free to play (freemium) games

Dadu042 — Wed, 4 Nov 2020 12:41:00 +0100

Age of Conan: Unchained
Allods Online
Anarchy Online (new engine client)
Creative Destruction (a Fortnite clone)
Trove
War Robots (Steam)

PlayOnMac is available on Catalina

Tinou — Sat, 4 Jul 2020 17:36:00 +0100

Hi,

PlayOnMac 4.4 has been released. It now supports macOS 10.15

Feel free to report any bug you encounter.

DXVK support added

Dadu042 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:21:00 +0100

Some functions added to support some DXVK versions (the list is in our Functions list).

DXVK ('Direct X to Vulkan') can make the 3D rendering faster, and can fix some compatibility issues between Wine and DirectX.

Dadu042

Rules of Survival is playable

Dadu042 — Thu, 4 Jun 2020 21:38:00 +0100

The freemium game Rules of Survival (a clone of PUBG) is currently playable on PlayOnLinux !.

Dadu042

More than 25 free casual games added

Dadu042 — Thu, 7 Nov 2019 10:09:00 +0100

More than 25 free casual games added, mainly for POL/POM v4.3.4, but some are OK with POL v4.2.12
Most these games are downloadable automatically by the scripts.

Note: latests scripts added and modified are listed in this area (Application tests) of the forum.

Dadu042

PlayOnMac & macOS Catalina (v 10.15): incompatibility

Dadu042 — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:45:00 +0100

Warning: PlayOnMac does not work with macOS Catalina (v10.15) and next, because it drop 32bits support.

PlayOnLinux 4 : free games checked and repaired

Dadu042 — Sun, 9 Jun 2019 6:23:00 +0100

PlayOnLinux 4: most of the free games have been tested and repaired.

Note 1 : Some of these games are downloadable automatically.

Note 2 : The free games installables appears in the PlayOnLinux (and PlayonMac) application when you uncheck the "commercial" checkbox). Sorting is not possible from the website.

Dadu042

Phoenicis PlayOnLinux 5.0 - Alpha 2

Tinou — Tue, 1 Jan 2019 12:05:00 +0100

Hi everyone!

We wish a happy and successful year! For this first day of 2019, we are glad to release the second alpha version of Phoenicis PlayOnLinux 5.

A new wine builder

We have rewritten from scratch our winebuild platform. To make it short, it is more reliable, more transparent, easier to setup and cross-platform compatible. Any project that needs to use wine could now potentially use it and take advantage of the 1828 different builds. (We admit that some of them are outdated, though).

The winebuild project is open source, uses containers. You can install it on your machine in no time if you want to build wine by yourself.

Support of new wine distributions

Speaking about wine builds, we now support 4 wine distributions:

Upstream wine builds are vanilla and unmodified wine ⁽¹⁾
Staging wine builds are the wine builds patched by wine-staging
Dos support wine builds contains wine and dosbox. (See the next feature)
CX contains a wine version patched by codeweavers

We plan to support proton in the next weeks.

All these wine build can be compiled directly through https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis-winebuild/.

(1) Except the very old versions that have a specific suffix is their names, like 1.5.3-heap_allocation_v2-avoid_deadlock, but we are going to move them anyway.

DOS Support

Winebuild now provides dos_support distribution. The way these wine binaries works is very simple: Wine launch script has been modified to detect if the given .exe is Win32 or a DOS executable. If it is a DOS executable, it will set-up a dosbox configuration that will behave consistenly with wine:

mount drive_c as C: on dosbox
if a autoexec.bat file exists inside the prefix, it will run it
support of custom DOS configuration per prefix
...

The script framework has also been modified so that you can tweak some dosbox settings directly from a script. Here is an exemple of "advanced" script

wine.run(wine.prefixDirectory() + "/drive_c/The Elder Scroll 1: Arena/Arena106.exe"); // Arena106.exe is a w32 fine, wine will run

wine.dosbox()
    .memSize(64)
    .renderAspect(true)
    .cpuCycles("max 95% limit 33000")
    .renderFrameSkip(1);

wine.run(wine.prefixDirectory() + "/drive_c/The Elder Scroll 1: Arena/ARENA.BAT"); // ARENA.BAT is obviously a MS-DOS file, dosbox will run

GoG support

We've added a way to add a web browser view directly inside script wizards. Thanks to this feature, scripts can now authenticate to any website.

Phoenicis can automatically download and install GoG games from your account, as POLv4 used to do during the past years.

A complete demonstration video of gog.com support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fopp-x9Fz3g&feature=youtu.be

Also, we have made a script pattern for all GoG games: it has drastically simplified them from POLv4. The script are so much easier that we believe that they will be a lot more maintained.

POLv5 script

POLv4 script

include(["engines", "wine", "quick_script", "gog_script"]);

var installerImplementation = {
    run: function () {
        new GogScript()
            .name("Teenagent")
            .editor("")
            .applicationHomepage("")
            .author("Quentin PÂRIS")
            .gogSetupFileName("teenagent/en1installer0")
            .category("Games")
            .wineVersion(LATEST_DOS_SUPPORT_VERSION)
            .wineDistribution("dos_support")
            .executable("TEENAGNT.EXE")
            .go();
    }
};

[ -z "$PLAYONLINUX" ] && exit 0
source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/sources"
 
GOGID="teenagent"
PREFIX="Teenagent_gog"
WORKING_WINE_VERSION="1.6.2-scummvm_support"
 
TITLE="GOG.com - Teenagent"
SHORTCUT_NAME="Teenagent"
 
POL_GetSetupImages "http://files.playonlinux.com/resources/setups/$PREFIX/top.jpg" "http://files.playonlinux.com/resources/setups/$PREFIX/left.jpg" "$TITLE"
 
POL_SetupWindow_Init
POL_SetupWindow_SetID 1214
POL_Debug_Init
 
POL_SetupWindow_presentation "$TITLE" "Metropolis Software" "http://www.gog.com/gamecard/$GOGID" "Pierre Etchemaite" "$PREFIX"
 
POL_Call POL_GoG_setup "$GOGID" "e5e3a8cd9bbbcec5a956d1f41281b4af"
 
POL_Wine_SelectPrefix "$PREFIX"
POL_Wine_PrefixCreate "$WORKING_WINE_VERSION"
 
POL_Call POL_GoG_install
 
POL_SetupWindow_VMS "1"
 
cat <<_EOFCFG_ > "$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/GOG Games/Teenagent/teenagent.polcfg"
[teenagent]
platform=pc
gameid=teenagent
description=Teen Agent (DOS/English)
language=en
guioptions=sndNoSpeech lang_English
_EOFCFG_
 
POL_Shortcut "teenagent.polcfg" "$SHORTCUT_NAME" "$SHORTCUT_NAME.png" "" "Game;AdventureGame;"
 
POL_SetupWindow_Close
 
exit 0

We are planning to add tons of GoG games in the library so stay tuned!

Installation of verbs directly inside a container

You can now install verbs directly from a wine container.

Standalone packages

We are now providing standalone packages that can work on any distribution without the need to install JDK runtime. These packages also remove all the feature that we don't need from the JDK. In the future, there will be probably two sorts of packages, but we want to make things easier for you for now.
We now provide macOS packages
We also support flatpak

I'd like to thank once again all the developers that helped us during the past weeks, plata, madoar, and also all those of you that contributed by reporting bugs, suggesting improvements, or tested phoenicis-winebuild.

Our next goals is to focus on prefix management (change of wine version inside a prefix, add debugging tools, etc...) and performance optimization.

If you have any suggestion or encounter any bug, we encourage you to come in our Github page: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/. This version is still at alpha-stage, so please be indulgent.

I also take the opportunity of this news to also announce you that PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.3.4 has been released. They have been updated to support the new winebuild system, and the different windows of the application have been made resizable. It should fix the HDPI issues some of you were encoutering. We continue to maintain these versions until you are 100% satisfied with POLv5

Download packages:

Linux standalone .tar.gz: http://repository.playonlinux.com/PlayOnLinux/5.0-alpha-2/Phoenicis_5.0-alpha-2-amd64.tar.gz
Linux standalone .deb: http://repository.playonlinux.com/PlayOnLinux/5.0-alpha-2/Phoenicis_5.0-alpha-2-amd64.deb
macOS .dmg: http://repository.playonlinux.com/PlayOnMac/PlayOnMac_5.0-alpha-2.dmg

Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!

Winebuild update

Tinou — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 0:16:00 +0100

Hi everyone,

Just a short news to announce that we have updated our wine build environement. If you are experiencing issues with our current wine builds (freetype problems, windows too small, ...), this piece of information may interest you.

Pursuing the work concerning the decentralization of our services, we have released a tool than can compile any version of wine directly on your computer or on your server: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis-winebuild

What are the advantage of this new tool?

You can easily use this tool to compile wine from and for any OS (linux and macOS are supported so far, but we also plan to support freebsd).
We continue to host wine binaries but in a more standard format than before (.tar.gz archives instead of .pol files).
We now provide JSON web services in case you want to have access to the list of the builds:
- https://phoenicis.playonlinux.com/index.php/wine?os=linux
- https://phoenicis.playonlinux.com/index.php/wine?os=darwin
You can track on wine building status: https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/. A JSON web service is also being released.
Linux users: Full wine staging support (GTK 3.0 is now fully supported for example)
OSX users: 64bit builds are now fully operational.

So what do I have to do if I have problems with the old builds?

Because they are compiled with more up-to-date dependencies, we are expecting the new builds to work better on recent distributions. This should fix most of the problems that you have reported to us recently.

However, we are rebuilding the old packages one by one and it takes time. We advise you to follow the build status here to ensure that the versions you are using are rebuilt: https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/. Then, uninstall your current wine versions from POL and reinstalling them should fix the problem you are encoutering.

As you may have noticed, POL / POM 4 have already been updated to use this new format. If you are using 4.3+, you are good to go

Roadmap

We plan to mirror all the builds in / near the United States
We will probably provide a web interface so that you can request for custom builds with custom patches. This web interface shall be open source so that you can host it where you want.

Release of PlayOnLinux 5.0 alpha 1

Tinou — Sun, 23 Sep 2018 21:48:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

I'm aware that it has been a while since the last time we gave news to you. Be reassured, the project is moving on and here we are to give you some news.

Today, I am very proud to announce that we have managed to release the alpha version of PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 5 (aka Phoenicis). I would like to give my special thanks to those who have continued the work I started few years ago: @plata and @madoar, and many others.

You can download the binaries here: https://repository.playonlinux.com/PlayOnLinux/5.0.0-alpha1

So, what's new?

In one word: everything. First, the interface has been completely redesigned:

Phoenicis is a completely rewritten piece of software that aims to bring you all the features of PlayOnLinux 3 and 4 (a.k.a Arietis) with new principles:

The platform is decentralized, meaning that the program will continue working if our website encounters problems. We have chosen to store the scripts on a git repository (https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/scripts) so that it becomes more respectful of open source principles.
The script engine is an important ingredient that made PlayOnLinux so successful in the past. This is why we want to improve it. We need it to be more accessible to everyone. For that matter, it has been completely redesigned. We decided to get rid of bash in favor of Javascript.

This alpha version respects theses principles and supports about 135 games and many other apps. You can see the whole list here: https://www.phoenicis.org/apps

Get involved

We need to go further and find a way to gather your feedback. This is the reason why we are releasing an alpha-test version of Phoencis.

If you encounter any issue or want to share an idea to improve the app, you can use our GitHub page: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis/issues
If you want to improve Phoencis, feel free to fork the repository and send your pull requet
If you want to add / update a script, you can check this repository: https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/scripts. If you need, you can even create your own script repository.
If you want to help us translate Phoencis, we are using crowdin: https://crowdin.com/project/phoenicis

What's next?

The project is far from being finished. Our next steps are to develop a strong Wine build platform using modern virtualization and/or containerization solutions. Then, we will make a new website (hosted at: http://www.phoenicis.org) so that we can continue giving you the best support we can.

Feel free to send feedbacks and see you soon

Some news for your scripts

Tutul — Thu, 8 Feb 2018 5:30:00 +0100

Hi everyone,

In these early 2018, a new feature is available for all scriptwriters that should make user experience more enoyable. Until today, the settings for the wine virtual desktop was hard coded in the script. Two users have therefore proposed a new script allowing scriptwriters to ask the user for these settings.

This script is currently in testing to ensure that it works properly but will be validated soon. We invite scriptwriters to replace Set_Desktop by a call to the new script like that :

POL_Call POL_Function_SetResolution

Thanks to lahtis and LinuxScripter ^^

In addition, some of you may have experienced problems with the Microsoft font installation. The script has been updated and the problem should be fixed. If you've used it recently and have problems with the fonts, you can try to reinstall them via the configuration menu ;)

Enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

Tinou — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 23:15:00 +0100

Hi everyone!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We are aware that we did not give a lot of news this year and we are verry sorry for that. However, we are coming in 2017 with a lot of new stuff.

We are proud to annouce that we have a first working version of PlayOnLinux 5 with a strong architecture. You'll hear about this very soon. To keep you patienting, here is a small video:

https://youtu.be/fJsUf55W4OQ

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.2.10 are released

Tinou — Sun, 3 Jan 2016 16:14:00 +0100

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.2.10 are now released. Here is the changelog:

Wine 1.8 staging is now the default wine version on OSX. The build process has been improved thanks to wine-staging team so that the compiler supports ms_hook_prologue, allowing function hotpatching. This should improve the compatibility of some applications like Steam.
Some wine staging instructions have been added so that they are fully supported by the scripts.
The wineprefix tab in the configuration panel has been improved.

Enjoy!

PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac 4.2.8 now available!

RoninDusette — Wed, 13 May 2015 17:28:00 +0100

Development has been picking up steam lately, and as such, we are proud to release PlayOnLinux & PlayOnMac 4.2.8. You can download it here:

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

Here is the changelog for this release:

Feature freeze has been declared for POL 4.x, so this changelog should contain only bug fixes
checkVersionUse(): don't assume cfg files have any order
manual installation: component installation bugfix ($IFS not restored correctly)
POL_OpenShell: call POL_Wine_AutoSetVersionEnv in all cases, to set $PATH (#5062)
Fix consecutive shortcut creations
POL_Wine_SetVideoDriver bugfix, device IDs were not inserted as DWORDs

Enjoy!

PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac 4.2.7

petch — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:37:00 +0100

Hi all, we are proud to announce the 4.2.7 release of PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac!

Among the visible changes, first a regression fix: "Install non-listed applications" should now be visible all the time, even while the list of install scripts is being updated:

During installations, a small (i) information icon was already showing up at the bottom of the wizard window for scripts that use POL_SetupWindow_SetID; Clicking on it would lead users to the script page on the web site. For scripts that support the embedded debugger (scripts that use POL_Debug_Init), there will now also be a second icon next to it to open the debugger window to show the installation log:

PlayOnLinux would display important informations at the beginning of the first installation, but not show them again so you don't have to click thru them with each installation. It will now display those informations until you click "Don't remember me" (after actually reading the messages of course!). This feature is also available for your own install scripts, as the new statement POL_SetupWindow_notice:

The Wine versions manager display has been changed to display a small lock (and bold text) for versions currently in use by some virtual drives, so you can more easily remove the versions that are no longer used:

Beside that, this version also contains its share of bugfixes and code cleanups, so here's the full changelog:

* Detect and abort scripts when trying to run 64bit programs with 32bit Wine
* POL_DetectVideoCards: list VGA compatible controllers and 3D controllers (#5012)
* Add support for several other value types than REG_SZ to registry
updating statements (#5013)
* POL_Wine_SelectPrefix: abort if no prefix name is provided
* Sort install scripts lists case insensitively (iTunes)
* Fix "hash-bang" line in shortcuts so they're actually executable
* Deprecate the usage of $REPERTOIRE in PlayOnLinux own code
* Translate remaining french comments and identifiers in Bash code
* Improve POL_Wine_PrefixDelete to remove ancillary resources (shortcuts, icons,...)
* Wine versions manager: attributes tell apart used versions instead of
unused versions; Add an extra warning when about to remove a version in use
* Avoid Python detection loops
* Display wx version found
* Fix Settings > Internet menu (#4989, thanks to rupert)
* Workaround for Wine bug #37575 (#5023)
* Improve find_binary function and make it public as POL_System_find_file
* Add support for .lnk, .bat and .cmd files to POL_Shortcut and POL_SetupWindow_shortcut_creator
* Added an icon to open the debugger from the installation wizard when
POL_Debug_Init has been called (#4948)
* Implement POL_SetupWindow_notice to display important messages, but
allow the user to acknowledge them once and for all ("Don't remind me") (#2036)
* POL_OpenShell (Configure > Misc > Open a shell) bug fixes
* Add a warning when OpenGL autotests are missing (user support)
* Make sure "Install non-listed application" link is always visible in
install window
* POL_SetupWindow_cdrom: don't suggest "*" when no CDROM has been found
* Remove use of remaining os.system() calls (less overhead, less quoting nightmare)
* Use os.kill() instead of shell command
* Use of "exec" to avoid some useless extra Bash processes
* polconfigurator interface cleanup (no risk of translation breakage)

Enjoy!

Wine-Staging WineBuilds now available!

RoninDusette — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:23:00 +0100

We now have Wine-Staging WineBuilds in our repository, available to use through PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac. We have been working extensively with a few members of the Wine-Staging team over the last couple of weeks to help make this possible.

Please, feel free to test out these new versions from the Manage Wine Versions menu in POL/POM, and please report issues that you have with the builds to our team. They have a suffix of "-staging" in the names of the Wine versions ("1.7.39-staging", etc.).

Wiki now available via the navigation menu

RoninDusette — Tue, 3 Mar 2015 1:58:00 +0100

So, our wiki has now been fully deployed, and is even integrated into our navigation menu. The Documentation link has been replaced with Wiki, as well as having it now direct you to the official wiki. There is far, far more information available than every before, and new info being added all of the time.

We encourage every user to stop by and take a look at the docs again, and check back frequently. We will be adding new tips, tricks, guides, and more as much as we can. Enjoy!

http://wiki.playonlinux.com/

PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac 4.2.6 & Wiki now available!

RoninDusette — Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:15:00 +0100

Hello, Linux and Mac community! We are proud to announce the release of the newest version of PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac. It can be downloaded here:

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

Thanks to everyone who submitted bugs and posted in the forums to help make each release better than the last.

The changelog for this 4.2.6 can be found below:

Use $ POL_TERM more Consistently, allow POL_TERM global configuration override. Beware, the carrier must terminal -T and -e options, so gnome-terminal Does not Qualify (gnome-terminal.wrapper Does though)
Add a function to compute a hash of a POL_Wine_VersionSignature Wine Package
Python version string extraction hardening (# 4895)
POL_System_PartInfo APPROBATION thru mount filesystems point INSTEAD of device (Btrfs subvolumes compatibility)
Modify bash / document_reader to pass extra arguments Unchanged ( http://www.playonlinux.com/en/topic-12519-Pass_arguments_to_PDFXChange_Viewer.html )
Remove "skipped lines" messages When The debugger gets the focus back
POL_Shortcut: do not overwrite $ binary logging to Improve
mainwindow: make boxen alert child of the main window So They can not get lost behind --other windows
Prevent POL_Download_Resource clobbering $ APP_ANSWER
Critical error: wget throwing SSL error when Install Components uses wget (bug 5002)

We have also started an official Wiki page that is going to be filled to the brim with Information regarding POL/POM, Wine, scripting, and more. As of now, all current documentation has been moved to the new wiki. It is located here:

http://wiki.playonlinux.com .

Be sure to check back there often, as there will we new info added as often as we can.

Enjoy!

SimCity4 Deluxe Installer updated with Steam support

RoninDusette — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:41:00 +0100

The installer for SimCity 4 Deluxe has been updated to use the newest version of Wine, as well as having added Steam support for newer purchasers of this fantastic, old-school game.

Enjoy!

Run SimCity 4 Deluxe PlayOnLinux Script

Check it out here:
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-311.html

Missing font issue in Photoshop CS6 now fixed!

RoninDusette — Fri, 9 Jan 2015 23:09:00 +0100

An update to the Adobe Photoshop CS6 installer has just come out that fixes the missing fonts on certain systems. If you were experiencing this issue, then you will want to delete your virtual drive for PS, and reinstall using the official installer.

Let us know if there are further issues. Enjoy!

Run Adobe Photoshop CS6 PlayOnLinux Script

Check it out here:

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2316-Adobe_Photoshop_CS6.html

vcrun2013 Installer now in testing!

RoninDusette — Thu, 8 Jan 2015 20:36:00 +0100

An installer for vcrun2013 has been uploaded and is now ready to be tested on PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac!

You can install it via the Install Components tab in the POL/POM Configure window

Check it out here:
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2390-POL_Install_vcrun2013.html

vcrun2012 Installer now in testing!

RoninDusette — Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:44:00 +0100

Last night a vcrun2012 component installer was uploaded and in testing. Please feel free to check it out, and let us know how it works.

You can install it via the Install Components tab in the POL/POM Configure window.

Check it out here:
http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2384-POL_Install_vcrun2012.html

Adobe Photoshop CS6 now in testing!

RoninDusette — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 18:21:00 +0100

We are now testing a script written by a team member for Adobe Photoshop CS6. So far, it has been tested as working on proprietary AMD and Nvidia drivers, but Intel chipsets seem not to work. Other than that, it seems to be running at right around native speeds. Online activation looks to be working correctly on tested systems, as well. Enjoy!

Run Adobe Photoshop CS6 PlayOnLinux Script

Check it out here:

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2316-Adobe_Photoshop_CS6.html

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.2.5 are available!

Tinou — Mon, 8 Sep 2014 13:36:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

The version 4.2.5 of PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac are now available! Here are the main new features:

Support for wxpython 3.0
- Compatibility with debian 8.0
Compatibility with next version of Mac OS (10.10 Yosemite, tested on DP7)
Mac OS: the bundled wine version is now 1.7.26, and uses winemac drv (far less XQuartz depencies)
Mention URL in POL_Download and POL_Download_Resource error messages (should help with user support)
Add POL_Config_Win16 to check if the host can run win16 programs, see http://linux-kernel.2935.n7.nabble.com/tip-x86-urgent-x86-64-modify-ldt-Ban-16-bit-segments-on-64-bit-kernels-td838675i120.html
Various bug fixes

Download PlayOnLinux
Download PlayOnMac
Full changelog

Have a nice day!

Wine 1.7.26 is available!

Tinou — Sat, 6 Sep 2014 19:44:00 +0100

Wine 1.7.26 is now available for PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac!

You can read the release notes here: http://www.playonlinux.com/w/wine-1.7.26

Wine builds are synchronised with PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac wine versions manager every half hour.
You can read the build log and download the packages here: http://www.playonlinux.com/wine/

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 now available!

RoninDusette — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:09:00 +0100

After a couple of weeks of working on it, it seems that a working installer and Wine-build are now up-to-par, and you can now run Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 and up on your Linux system.

Run Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 PlayOnLinux Script

Check it out here:

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-2247.html

Wine 1.7.25 is available!

Tinou — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 17:35:00 +0100

Wine 1.7.25 is now available for PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac!

You can read the release notes here: http://www.playonlinux.com/w/wine-1.7.25

Wine builds are synchronised with PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac wine versions manager every half hour.
You can read the build log and download the packages here: http://www.playonlinux.com/wine/

Important: Fix in winebuild

Tinou — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:38:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

Just a small but important notice to inform you that we have detected and are currently fixing a problem affecting Fedora's user, and possibly other distro like Open Suse. We are currently repackaging all our wine 1.7.x and 1.6.x version.

To see if you are affected, install Internet Explorer 8 with PlayOnLinux and open a https website (For example https://www.winehq.org). If Internet Explorer 8 crashes, the wine version used is affected. To fix the problem, you will need to reinstall it.

Fixed wine versions will be available in about 30 minutes.

PlayOnLinux and Linux gaming: Where do we stand in 2014?

Tinou — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:15:00 +0100

Hi everybody,

After about 8 years of existence, I would like to devote a special article to give my feelings about PlayOnLinux situation, what is its place in Linux Gaming, to explain where we are going and to answer few questions I was asked about PortMyApps.

To put this into context, in 2007, 7th May, we decided with a friend to create PlayOnLinux. The name we had chosen was meaningful: we were hoping to bring a new way to play on Linux. By the time, there were very few native games. The best way we could allow you to play your game on Linux was to use wine. The idea was encouragingly successful because in less than a week, we had more than one hundred members.^[1]

At the time, we did not have sufficient resources to provide complete software allowing to use all existing platforms (including native games, which were far fewer in 2007 than today). Therefore, we mainly focused on Windows games (using Wine, DOSBox and ScummVM), and we developed a set of tools allowing to easily install and use these programs.

In 2012, December, Valve announced the release of a Linux version of Steam client^[2]. One year later, SteamOS is released^[3]. Last month, GOG.Com (Good Old Games) also announce the official support of Linux platform^[4]. Such news is encouraging, and show that game publishers have more and more interest in free operating systems, despite the fact that their market share stay low for the moment.^[5].

For our part, we obviously want this new trend to continue and we highly encourage game publishers to release their products for Linux. However, our (historical) name PlayOnLinux can now be a little confusing: While you might think we want to bring the way to play on linux, what we are proposing in fact is a tool allowing you to use wine easily. If you are looking for something to manage your game library on Linux, plenty of them exist, such as Lutris^[6] which is also a French product.

We are now are facing a new tricky problem: Should we stop encouraging publishers to use wine now that they are showing interest in Linux systems? This problem has been raised in comments from a GamingOnLinux^[7] article when I decided to run PortMyApps. (It is important to note that PortMyApps will stay independant of PlayOnLinux, the developers are not the same). We had the idea of getting closer from publishers noticing that PlayOnLinux is becoming harder and harder to maintain, mainly because of its large amount of scripts growing exponentially. Of course, it would not be profitable to see wine being used by game publisher as an easy and low-cost porting solution, to the detriment of a real native developement process. Let me reassure you about this respect, PortMyApps certainly does not want to port the next Elder Scroll, neither to capture Linux video game market. We would not be that pretentious. Furthermore, it is really unlikely to see a publisher at the same time being seriously interested in Linux gaming, and wanting to propose a wine-based solution. It is even more unlikely to see a big game publisher giving such important responsibility to a small project like ours.

However, we figured out that in some cases (two, to be accurate), this idea would be going to be good for everyone.

There are some programs whose core business is neither computing, nor video games. I'm thinking about very specific programs, generally used by small amount of people. (Medicine, specialized drawing materials, ...). This software is often used inside a company, or developed in B2B. Publisher and user of this software might want to use Linux without having sufficient resources to port their program. (technological aspects, few developers, ...).
There are some very old games whose source code is lost, or whose interest and notability are not sufficient enough regarding the amount of work needed to make a Linux version.

We typically want to work in both of those cases. We have used and followed wine for eight years, and we propose to help, in those cases, to integrate it the best way we can so that the user experience won't be degraded. For information, PortMyApps.com upload is limited 50Mo.

To come back to PlayOnLinux, we are obvisouly aware that one day, it will become pointless and will have no longer reasons to exists. We strongly believe that it would represent a victory for the values we are defending. However, we also think that everybody should be able to run software he wants regardless the choice of the operating system. It is in this mind that we will continue to do what we have been doing for nearly eight years, until each publisher decides to release a native (and not wine based) version of each game. We still have a long way to go and a lot of ideas to present you. I also would like to thank each of those that has been involved in this project for the last seven years.

Feel free to post questions in comments, I will be glade to answer the best I can.

PlayOnLinux

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New quality free to play (freemium) games

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DXVK support added

Rules of Survival is playable

More than 25 free casual games added

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PlayOnLinux 4 : free games checked and repaired

Phoenicis PlayOnLinux 5.0 - Alpha 2

A new wine builder

Support of new wine distributions

DOS Support

GoG support

Installation of verbs directly inside a container

Standalone packages

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Some news for your scripts

Merry Christmas!

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.2.10 are released

PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac 4.2.8 now available!

PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac 4.2.7

Wine-Staging WineBuilds now available!

Wiki now available via the navigation menu

PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac 4.2.6 & Wiki now available!

SimCity4 Deluxe Installer updated with Steam support

Missing font issue in Photoshop CS6 now fixed!

vcrun2013 Installer now in testing!

vcrun2012 Installer now in testing!

Adobe Photoshop CS6 now in testing!

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.2.5 are available!

Wine 1.7.26 is available!

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 now available!

Wine 1.7.25 is available!

Important: Fix in winebuild

PlayOnLinux and Linux gaming: Where do we stand in 2014?

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