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Well, I found that a few programs do work on Wine 8.0 right out of the box. Notepad works great. The Online Bible program from the Netherlands runs very well indeed similar to win11 function.
Glad to see that. I just tried 'conty' recommended by rknelson. Worked well. I use Bible software called 'TheWord' and it worked very well with conty. It is my favorite Bible software and has Chinese plugin too. Free also. Very nice.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Alienbob has been kind enough to update his wine package.
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Mon Feb 20 08:01:27 UTC 2023
wine: updated to 8.2 (Slackware 15.0 and -current).
Depends on FAudio, vkd3d. For 64bit Slackware, also depends on multilib.
In addition to standard multilib, you need to convert the 32bit FAudio
and vkd3d packages to '-compat32' packages and install those as well.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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The Wine development release 8.3 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Support for the Low Fragmentation Heap.
- Smard card support using PCSC-Lite.
- Bundled Zydis library for more correct disassembly.
- Various bug fixes.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Initial step of the Wayland graphics driver.
- Cleanups in IME support.
- A number of test fixes.
- Various bug fixes.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Alienbob has been kind enough to update his wine package.
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Sun Mar 19 09:52:07 UTC 2023
wine: updated to 8.4 (Slackware 15.0 and -current).
Depends on FAudio, vkd3d.
For 64bit Slackware, also depends on multilib. In addition to the
standard multilib, you need to use the 'convertpkg-compat32' tool
to convert the 32bit FAudio and vkd3d packages to '-compat32' packages,
and install those as well.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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The Wine development release 8.5 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.7.
- Better error reporting in the IDL compiler.
- Support for shared Wow64 Classes registry key.
- More cleanups in IME support.
- Support for configuring a WinRT dark theme.
- Various bug fixes.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Alienbob has been kind enough to update his wine package.
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Sat Apr 1 17:54:58 UTC 2023
wine: updated to 8.5 (Slackware 15.0 and -current).
Depends on FAudio.
For 64bit Slackware, also depends on multilib. In addition to the
standard multilib, you need to use the 'convertpkg-compat32' tool
to convert the 32bit FAudio package to a '-compat32' package,
and install that as well.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,101
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The Wine development release 8.6 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Bundled math library from Musl libc.
- Gecko engine updated to version 2.47.4.
- Improved spool file support in the PostScript driver.
- Various bug fixes.
Tried 8.0 the other day, it's ok. On one of my old 32bit systems, I upgraded to 8.0 from 3.0.4 with no loss in functionality.
Tested/works:
Compiled one wine32 only (no vkd3d, vulkan, wine64, or wine16).
Compiled one wine64 only, with vkd3d-1.7 and everything, so far it works fine for my use-case, not sure how stable it is in general.
May have some new features/requirements I was previously unaware of, like winegstreamer for example: it used to build ok without-gstreamer and now some other wine components can break without it.
Might look into it at some point, but not very high on my list.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Alienbob has been kind enough to update his wine package.
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Wed Apr 19 17:48:52 UTC 2023
MinGW-w64: updated to v10.0.0_gcc12.2.0 (Slackware 15.0 and -current).
wine: updated to 8.6 (Slackware 15.0 and -current).
Depends on FAudio.
For 64bit Slackware, also depends on multilib. In addition to the
standard multilib, you need to use the 'convertpkg-compat32' tool
to convert the 32bit FAudio package to a '-compat32' package,
and install that as well.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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The Wine development release 8.9 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Mono engine updated to version 8.0.0.
- Completion of PE conversion in the PostScript driver.
- Doppler shift support in DirectSound.
- GdiPlus performance improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
Has anyone gotten multilib to work with up-to-date --current?
I use Slackware64 15+current sometimes with multilib and WINE. I got no errors installing multilib nor switching back; (I used to but) you just need to read the instructions closely enough.
I deleted and remade a WINE directory/folder/prefix, and reinstalled programs, and rebuilt my WINE menu using commands on the WINE forum... however, the rebuilt menu doesn't work: it only works to run the programs on command-line... I've found anytime I delete and reinstall a WINE directory/folder/prefix, I have to reinstall Slackware to get back a working menu for KDE or XFCE... is there any way to fix it properly?
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Wine 8.10 Released
June 9, 2023
The Wine development release 8.10 is now available.
What's new in this release:
All PE->Unix transitions go through the syscall interface.
Mouse cursor clipping improvements.
Support for virtual memory placeholders.
Locale and timezone data updates.
Various bug fixes.
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