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Getting closer to good PC Gaming under Linux!!!

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http://winehq.org/

June 21, 2006: Wine 0.9.16 Released


Wine 0.9.16 was released today. It contains some noticeable improvements including:

More work on Direct3D shaders.
Major DirectDraw rewrite on top of Direct3D.
Support for debug information in Dwarf format.
Beginnings of an OleView Winelib application.
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Wasn't that long ago ( a few weeks?) that the last point release came out. They be rockin'?
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Looking forward to gaming someday on Linux...
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World of Warcraft runs wonderfully on Linux under wine. :)
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I happily run Diablo II and Starfleet Command under Wine (or Cedega).

America's Army, Darwinia, id games, and UT have native Linux versions.

And there are a few true originals, like BZTank, that are quite popular.
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