Download Wine 0.9.55

On Friday, the developers of Wine released a new version of the program. With the help of Wine it is possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, Freebsd and Mac OS X, among others. Wine is maintained by a large group of enthusiastic developers and instead of releasing new releases when new features are added have been added to the software, it has been decided to release a new build every two weeks. More information about Wine can be found in this faq are being found. This release contains several Direct3d improvements and a start has been made with support for ole objects. Fortunately, the inevitable ‘a lot of bug fixes’ are also not missing this time. The full changelog of this release looks like this:

What’s new in this release:

• Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation.
• Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit.
• Several fixes to the animation control.
• A bunch of fixes for regression test failures.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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