Wine Doors

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21
Jan 08

Wine-doors 0.1.2 (Carménère)

Well after a long hard journey I proudly release wine-doors 0.1.2 unto the world… We’ve really worked hard on this release and unfortunately its been a long time coming. Within a short while we’ll add CS2 and Office 2003 so if you’re in need of apps like this we should be able to accommodate you soon, more apps are on the way and we’re trying to work on a decent application packager to get things off the ground so watch this space.

Many thanks to Andrew Stormont for his sterling work testing and testing and testing and testing… you get the idea, he’s also written some cool code and tidied up some features, so thanks dude you’ve been especially inspiring at times.

You can download wine-doors-0.1.2 here in tarball, deb or rpm format

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22
May 07

I feel I have triumphed over adversity

I have finally managed to cancel my worldpay agreement with transgaming, no more shall I be thieved from every month as a result of a worldpay cockup. The software sucks, doesn’t work and after trying to use it for so long I’m glad wine-doors is maturing ;)

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01
May 07

… Speeech!

For those of you who are blissfully unaware. I will be speaking at lug radio live this year. 3pm on Saturday 7th July.

Take the hint from the banner ;) I’ll be speaking about wine-doors and also showing a demo of something new…

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22
Apr 07

Cedega + ubuntu + Battlefield 2

I’ve been a transgaming subscriber now for about 2-3 years. I am now unable to cancel my subscription because of a worldpay problem, this however is beside the point. After 2-3 years not actually getting a game installed and playable via Point2Play and Cedega I want out. To be honest, Cedega sucks.

Today I thought I’d try the new Cedega 6.0, in the hopes that 2 years after I bought Battlefield2 (purchased purely because it was apparently working with Cedega 5.1) that it might work with Cedega 6.0.

So after waiting for an age during the install process, I finally get around to the part where I can execute the game.

First attempt: Game splash screen loads, screen goes black once or twice then game exits
Second attempt: Desktop mode, game loaded to my surprise, quick exit, retry
Third attempt: Turn desktop mode off, try again. Game loaded, but was unplayably slow.

I’ve tried over the time of my Cedega subscription to get Battlefield 2, Halflife 2, Medal of Honor Pacific Assault, Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2 and Battlefield 1942 working with Cedega. None of the games worked perfectly, Call of Duty was the best of the lot, however it was also fairly broken in other ways the sound was jittery and distracting.

So here’s what I think about Cedega as a real life user 

  • Games don’t tend to work
  • Difficult for any user to identify what they need to do to get a game to work
  • Difficult to get reasonable support from the support service, there is no method of ongoing realtime conversation (unlike wine)
  • The wiki/Games DB need to be pulled together, the disparate parts of the documentation system make it harder to find common knowledge answers to problems
  • The user interface looks like they threw all of the widgets into a blendtec blender then used the output for their UI.
  • Still no menu integration in GNOME/KDE, games must be launched via point2play

I think I’ll keep the faith with WineHQ for now… Maybe Cedega will get their act together in the future, but its not looking hopeful.

FYI: I recently installed a fresh Ubuntu Fiesty, installed the deb from the website using GDebi, installed and executed BF2 using the GDDB profiles provided and allegedly verified by Transgaming. So its not like anything incorrectly.

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25
Mar 07

Call for testers

Please, everybody, test wine-doors and start contributing back some ApplicationPacks to the cause. This is after all user generated content… ;)

Wine-doors is at a point where we have internet explorer, firefox, call of duty working nicely, and a few other things on the way, please check out the source from SVN and get testing.

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10
Mar 07

Wine-doors: Bling intels awakening

For some bizarre reason it seems cairo renders much faster on my macbooks less than powerful i945GM card, and the rendering is less than perfect on my nvidia 6800GT. Surely a card with 4 times the memory, and a faster GPU should out perform a laptop intel?!

Either way, the laptop has been used to bring you…

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06
Mar 07

Wine-doors: Beginning of the bling!

I’m just adding in some primitive animations into wine-doors, I have some complaints, the dismal speed of pycairo for one, I think I need some glitz?!

Although there are a few jitters, the animation is working OK, I need to do some other things to it and try to smooth it out a bit

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04
Mar 07

Wine-doors: The movie

This is the firstrun process, when you run wine-doors for the first time it does a few setup things, getting some stuff out of the way that you’d need to do later anyway for alot of applications.

Here I am seen demonstrating the cairo renderer (which is pig slow when istanbul is recording), the package lists and the filter. You may also notice that it figures out the application status and creates buttons depending on whether or not it is installed.

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04
Mar 07

Still moving on

I’ve just added in a bunch of new things into wine-doors, current changeset 527 now has functioning show/filter although some bugs still exist, firstrun works, user install works. I need to add the signals for the links in cairo so you can add things to the queue and then execute it, and add the status images/animations/text which may be a little harder than i first thought.

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03
Mar 07

Wine-doors updates, firstrun and autohotkey


wine-doors-firstrun

Originally uploaded by Karl Lattimer.

After having to hack around quite a bit at the XML files and bring everything into some kind of alignment I now have the firstrun dialog in wine-doors around 98% done, one problem remains with installing multiple versions of one application but this should be easy to get over.

This means that pretty much end to end the installer, downloader, application pack, packlist and queue classes all work. There are features to add to a few places but for the most part the applicaiton is functioning nicely in the back end. Now for the actual wine-doors main window, lots of work needs to be done here.

Tying together the installed, available, queue and all package views and getting some bugs here and there fixed up. I’m thinking about writing another cairo-renderer for the application details, and add some nice extra features (bling!) to the detailed view. Ahead of this is status text and animations in the current WDCellRenderer.

A few error dialogs need to be displayed and things like an installer browser when a file can’t be found and a cd prompter needs to be worked on but for the most part the majority of the code is more than adequate for a release candidate, so when the remnants of the UI problems are all tied together expect RC1 to be a few days away.

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