Here is a little sum up of what happened recently concerning the applications supported by PlayOnLinux:

New

- Runes of Magic, a contribution by siGGismallz (his first script, kudos to him :sunglasses: ).

Fixed/Updated

- Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, fixed by NSLW thanks to a report of rohtie.
- Guitar Pro 5, updated(FR) by ktulu77.
- World in Conflict, updated thanks to a report(FR) of mathias42300.

Work in progress

- [new] Perfect World International, come here to help us testing it.
- [new] FEAR, validated soon.
- [new] Max Payne, validated soon.
- [new] Freelancer, validated soon.
- [new] Scripts for 7 Valve games: Half-Life², Half-Life² : Episode 1, Half-Life² : Episode 2, Half-Life² : Loast Coast, Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike Source. This script pack can be found here but remember these scripts aren't official nor guaranteed to work, so they are for test purpose only to help us improving them.
- [fix] Google Chrome, in progress.
- [update] Steam, in progress.

It's official now, PlayOnLinux will be available directly in the Ubuntu distribution soon!

Indeed, you will find PlayOnLinux 3.5 in Ubuntu's "universe" repository for the next release, Karmic Koala, in October.
Big thanks to the packaging team.

Despite that, our own repository for Ubuntu will remain to provide all the latest versions of PlayOnLinux. :)

Links:
playonlinux 3.5-1 is in Karmic
http://www.ubuntu.com/


By Asimov

What changes does Wine 1.1.23 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- Support for registering MIME types with the Linux desktop.
- FBO mode is now the default for Direct3D.
- Support for COM proxy delegation.
- Improved support for the Mingw cross-compile.
- Proper fullscreen mode for the virtual desktop.
- Various bug fixes.


A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page


To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link:

Players start out in the city of Ferdok in Aventuria, a unique medieval world where sinister forces are at work. Summoned by a letter from an old friend, their adventure begins as they investigate a series of strange ritualistic murders. Only after gathering trusted, skilled companions as part of The Dark Eye: Drakensang’s compelling party-based game play where players can control four unique characters, in addition to their own, can players battle to uncover the sinister conspiracy threatening the world of Aventuria. Additionally, the game features a talent-based dialogue system that will allow gamers to threaten, persuade and charm their way through a universe full of unique characters, creatures and locations, as they seek to fulfill their sacred mission.



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For more detail check out the forum

Create over a million unique Sims and control their lives. Customize everything from their appearances, to their personalities and even the home of their dreams. Then, send your Sims out to explore new locations around town and to meet other Sims in the neighborhood.
                                   

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[box title=The_Sims_3_2]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/88.jpg[/box][box title=The_Sims_3_3]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/89.jpg[/box][box title=The_Sims_3_4]https://www.playonmac.com/images/uploads/90.jpg[/box]

For more detail check out the forum

Good evening everyone,

PlayOnLinux's staff is happy to announce to you that the family's getting bigger :D

NSLW becomes our new scriptor. You probably already have noticed his numerous contributions (Bioshock, Fallout3 and many others)

Thank you to NSLW for his motivation and long life !

by Asimov

What changes does Wine 1.1.22 (What is Wine?), the latest development version, bring about:

- More improvements to OLE copy/paste.
- Beginnings of x86_64 exception handling.
- Direct3D locking fixes.
- ARB shaders improvements.
- Better OpenGL pixel format support.
- Various bug fixes.


A detailed list of all the changes is available on the official announcement page


To download the source code or binary packages for various systems and distributions use the following link:

Hello everyone,

NSLW has been generous, he made installation scripts for the 11 following games:
-Bioshock
-Fallout 3
-Gothic 3
-Need For Speed II
-Need For Speed Most Wanted
-Need For Speed Underground
-Need For Speed: High Stakes/Road Challenge
-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky
-Silent Hill 2
-Race Driver : GRID
-Planescape Torment

Let's warmly thank him for his great work ;-)

Have fun :sunglasses:


By GNU_Raziel

PlayOnLinux is now officially part of Debian sid, thanks to BeberKing.

It is available in the contrib repository and the related page is HERE. As you may have noticed, the available version is only PlayOnLinux 3.4 (while the current version is PlayOnLinux 3.5). This is because of the very long check time for the new packages (about 2 months) but now it has been accepted, this long test period isn't necessary anymore and BeberKing should update it next week.


From now on, to install PlayOnLinux on Debian, in addition of the usual method (explained in our download page), you can use the following method:

- Make sure the contrib repository is enabled: your /etc/apt/source.list must contain a line similar to deb http://host/debian distribution section1 section2 section3 where "http://host/debian" is the mirror of the Debian archive you use, "distribution" is sid and one of the "sectionX" is contrib.

- Type the following commands in a terminal with root privileges: apt-get update
apt-get install playonlinux

If the version of PlayOnLinux you are using is older than the current one (3.5), you won't be able to use all the PlayOnLinux's features (such as WineVersion).

Indeed, the domain name from which this program used to download the miscellaneous files for Wine, doesn't exist anymore.

This problem is fixed in PlayOnLinux's version 3.5.

The only solutions are either to update PlayOnLinux, or to wait for the domain to be reactivated (which might take about a month).


By MulX