Wine 8.6, Gaming on GNU/Linux, and Games for OpenBSD (in DOSBox) (UPDATED)
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Wine 8.6 out now with bundled Musl math library
After another ~2 weeks, the latest development release is out for the Windows translation layer with Wine 8.6. Part of what makes Steam Play Proton run some of the most popular games around! This is the usual fortnightly release with the latest work, and then once a year they put up a new stable release that will be Wine 9.0.
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WineHQ - Wine Announcement - The Wine development release 8.6 is now available.
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.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.6.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
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Ubisoft hiring Linux developer talent for XDefiant
XDefiant is an upcoming free-to-play, first-person arena shooter from Ubisoft and it seems they need a bit more Linux talent. In an advert on their careers website there's one noted for "Linux Systems Engineer - XDefiant", with the option to work remotely too.
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SimCity 2000 in DOSBox
SimCity 2000 on OpenBSD, but should work on most any BSD.
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SimCity 2000 running on OpenBSD 7.3 via DOSBox 0.74-3
Super excited to have SimCity 2000 running in DOSBox 0.74-3 on OpenBSD 7.3. There are still a couple issues to work around, but it works.
In order for this game to run, Windows 3.1 needs to be installed first. I followed this tutorial to get everything running: https://medium.com/@egee_irl/lets-install-windows-3-1-in-dosbox-300c87d648f9
I know the screenshots are showing the game running in a window, but for some reason the cursor is only captured when DOSBox is in fullscreen mode. For now, I just launch DOSBox in fullscreen so I can move the cursor around in order to actually play it.
UPDATE
Another one about WINE:
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Wine development release 8.6 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS
The Wine development release 8.6 is now available.