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March 15th, 2013, 22:20 GMT · By

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Wine 1.5.26 Fixes Windows Media Player 9 Installation

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Yet another development release of the mighty Wine software has been announced earlier today, March 15, by Alexandre Julliard.

Wine 1.5.26 improves the URL cache, fixes various issues for ARM binaries, adds OpenGL, drag & drop and clipboard support in the Mac driver, and it no longer supports the SPARC platform.

Wine 1.5.26 also improves support for the following Windows games: NFS3 Demo, Entropia Universe, Wing Commander 3 Kilrathi Saga Edition, Priority: Survive, JumpGate: The Reconstruction, BURRACO, MCM2, Sims 3, Might and Magic Heroes, Railworks 3, Endless Space, Bunch of Heroes, Magic: The Gathering Online, Drakensang, Disciples: Sacred Lands and Total Annihilation : Kingdoms.

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Comment #1 by: justniz on 25 Mar 2013, 18:36 UTC reply to this comment

I'm not sure why anyone would ever actually want to install Windows Media Player in Linux when there are already free alternatives such as VLC and mplayer that run natively, support more media formats and are much more user friendly.

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