Just uploaded a new version of WineBottler with the updated Wine 1.7.9.
Directly from winehq.org:
.kkrieger, a DirectX9 game with a gigantic download of 96KB, running on WineBottler 1.7.9.
As usual: head over to winebottler.kronenberg.org and grab your copy 🙂 .
Happy Holidays!
Mike
Yes Sir! A new stable AND new 1.7.* development builds 🙂 .
My thanks fly out to Aaron, Adam, Alberto, E, Oliver, Thamas and Vanessa for wading together with me thru tight loops of testing and bug fixing.
Adding Mavericks to the list of supported Operating Systems, while maintaining compatibility down to Snow Leopard, gave us quite a headache :). Although I still can't answer all mails, your feedback really drives the development, as I can't test on all possible configurations of OSs and Macs.
Some of the highlights:
We are making some progress on the FAQ as well, you can find a work in progress here:
FAQs. Please note that everything else on the subfolder "/wp" is out of date, as this is mainly a testing site. If you got more questions, that need answering, I'm happy to add them to the FAQ section.
Another item that constantly needs updating is the "Automated Installations" section. One needs to understand, that the programs you can download and install are in constant flux. One of the security measures Winetricks put in place to make sure all downloads are correct, is to check them by checksum. Every time a download changes, these checksums have to be updated. This is why you might run into a failed installation and when you look at the Error log, that opens, you find a checksum-error way down in the log. Please give me a heads-up, if this happens, and I try to follow up with an updated checksum as fast as I can.
So just send me a tweet @k3erg or mail me at mikesmassivemess@kronenberg.org if you have some input.
And here is a big "Thank You!" to the unfortunately anonymous Bitcoin sponsors. I usually try to thank personally - so if you're in for a chat, just drop me a line :).
If you're curious whats going to be next in WB – We got a mural now:
Last, a word about ads.
As some might have noticed, I was heavily testing ads to support some of the development ;). This is going to cool down in december/january as soon as I have time to analyze the results and see, what fits in best. As ads are content and user specific, I do not see, what ads you get. But I got word, that some ads agencies now optimized their inventory for this site, by displaying all kind of fake download buttons, which try to trick you into downloading dubious downloaders and exes. No names, but this looks to be one of the worlds largest agency, too. These "optimizations" really drive Ads as a way to support efforts to uselessness.
We are in good company: GIMP Windows Installers move from SourceForge to ftp.gimp.org.
For now I just urge you to download WineBottler from the main site, just use one of the two GRAY buttons, reading: "WineBottler 1.X Free Download for Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion" right beside the big Icon on the top of the page - a fullscreen ad from adf.ly will show... wait for 5 secs and click "Skip Ad". The download will start automatically. Please bear with us, until we got that sorted out.
Now head over to winebottler.kronenberg.org and grab your new build of WineBottler.
Enjoy
Mike
This one was on its way for a long time: WineBottler 1.6.
With OS X 10.9 Mavericks dropping in, I had to go some extra miles to have WineBottler back, running the way it was intended to.
I invite you to test this new version that should fix some major issues, before we're going to declare it the new stable and move on with versions 1.6.1 and 1.7.x.
Especially these these two buggers should be gone now:
Further more, we did some work on
Wine.app 1.6 was updated to Wine 1.6. (1.6.1 and 1.7.x are on the way, too 🙂 )
And as usual: Thank you for your feedback so far! And I'm still looking for
Just send me a mail or tweet @k3erg, and I might even get around to answer some.
Now head over to WineBottler and get the new builds.
Enjoy!
Mike
PS: Going to recheck a lot of checksums of the automated downloads this week, and weed out some of the obsolete apps.
Bumped to WineBottler 1.4.1.6 and 1.6-rc5.
This release of WineBottler has an eye on "special" .exe names, i.E. spaces, non-alphanumeric characters and certain starting letters .Looks like we still had some trouble with escaped characters at some points, which caused some trouble with a lot of newer programs with fancy names 🙂 : This is fixed in stable and development.
Wine.app 1.6-rc5 was updated to Wine 1.6-rc5.
Now, we're getting closer to run the GameStop PC Download App on the Mac.
Thank you for your feedback so far! And I'm still looking for
Just send me a mail or tweet @k3erg, and I might even get around to answer some.
Now head over to WineBottler and get the new builds.
Enjoy!
Mike
PS.
I get reports that running Wine.app on OS X 10.9 is not working, yet (without using a custom built icotool, txs Kim). So... only do it, if you know what you are doing. I'll let you know once it's save to surf the Mavericks.
WineBottler 1.6-rc3 is ready for testing. Looks like we finally can keep up with Wine again :).
WineBottler has received a lot of fixes and a new app in the automated installations section. For Wine changes see wine announce.
Now, that the new setup for Wine 1.6 and the website is starting to move in a direction I like, I'm looking into improving help... without investing to much time into one-to-one support.
You can help WineBottler out with dropping me a mail or tweet @k3erg. with:
Suggestions for new automated Installations are welcome as well.
Now head over to WineBottler and get the new builds.
Enjoy!
Mike
PS.
After closing for spam, I'm opening the comments, again. Please use them for general feedback, suggestion and comments Do not ask for support or post logs here: Write me a mail. txs! 🙂
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