Now available for GNU/Linux and Mac OS X operating systems

Jul 28, 2015 21:35 GMT  ·  By

On July 28, Alexandre Julliard had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download and testing of a new snapshot of the 1.7 unstable branch of one of the world's most popular open-source projects, Wine.

Highlights of Wine 1.7.48, which is a development release, include better support for the OpenMP implementation, more support for OpenGL core contexts, support for pixel snapping in DirectWrite, as well as I/O stream support in the MSVCIRT C++ runtime.

"The Wine development release 1.7.48 is now available," says Alexandre Julliard. "Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list."

Of course, there are also numerous fixes in Wine 1.7.48, for Windows programs like EssentialPIM, Notepad, FormatFactory, P2kCommander, Internet Explorer, Magnus 2011, Collectorz.com Movie Collector v9.x, FoxitReader 3.0, GTA2 Manager, NeXTA, Starcraft Campaign Editor, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

The Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 4.0, IMVU, Clang Static Analyzer, Lexware Quicken 2014 Deluxe, HyperStudio 5, Windows Performance Analyzer, Valgrind, Irfanview, Word Viewer 2007, and PDF-Xchange Viewer apps also received fixes and should work better now.

Numerous games now work better with Wine

In addition to the Windows programs listed above, Wine 1.7.48 adds patches for numerous Windows games, among which we can mention Sid Meier's Railroads Demo, Achtung die Kurve, Quake III Arena, Chernobyl Terrorist Attack Demo, The Endless Forest 3, Starlaxis, Tesla: The Weather Man Demo, and Gothic 3 Demo.

Moreover, the ARMA III Alpha, Strike Suit Zero, Stalker CoP, Perspective, Oblivion, Lord of The Rings Online, Ufo Aftermath, PlanetSide 2 v5.2.4.x, and Bully: Scholarship Edition games were also fixed in the new development version of Wine. Download Wine 1.7.48 for GNU/Linux and Mac OS X operating systems right now via Softpedia or directly from the project's website.