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Article: New Wine Ready To Decant.(TransGaming Technologies' Wine file format conversion software)(Product Announcement)
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- Linux Gram
- Article date:
- October 29, 2001
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A new version of Wine, one that allegedly works, has emerged from what at first blush is one of the most unlikely of places - a 10-man Canadian games start-up.
Wine is the open source Windows apps migration project that's been around so long it's become the open source version of the search for the Holy Grail.
The outfit, TransGaming Technologies, has taken the open source Wine code, added its own enhancements including support for Microsoft's DirectX APIs, and come up with what it calls WineX.
WineX hits market on November 9, embedded in the first-ever Linux version of The Sims, the best selling Windows game for the past 18 months. It's sold ...