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Yesterday evening, I became unable to access http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/ . This has firstly become inaccessible to me for the purpose of finding out from the Web pages, whether version 0.9.59 has been adapted as binaries for Debian yet, which I personally need as a user of Kanotix, because the whole index can't be called up. But in addition right now, an 'apt-get update' fails

I found this error to be a bit odd. I had completely wiped my hard drive before reinstalling everything (for reasons unrelated to WINE,) on my Kanotix 2007 RC6 Thormammer. But now I've reinstalled WINE RC1. Since WINE v0.9.61 came out, I've noticed that 'wine explorer' just quits without any error messages. Also, the corresponding menu entry does the same thing. Since this is a

I had installed Dragon Naturally Speaking under Wine 1.1.7 and earlier, and it was working fine. But now under Wine 1.1.9, the result seems to be, that the toolbar for this application first goes into a strange state, where the (Linux) cursor disappears whenever the mouse is positioned over the application's toolbar. And using winecfg to emulate a virtual desktop does not change this

Just a few weeks ago, I reported a regression according to which Bryce 5.5 would at least display its application window correctly, until WINE v0.9.56 came along. Next, I posted here hoping that WINE developers would at least test Bryce themselves, to try working on this bug. And to that end, I had given a URL here, from which the application can be downloaded for free. It was due to my own

...n under WINE. But not having looked at the AppDB first, I went ahead and installed Bryce 5.5 some months ago, which ran fine under WINE 0.9.44 or some such version... Here is an old screenshot of the app, which has been used to render a tree on the Linux Box. (Kanotix 2006-RC4) [Image: http://www.dirkmittler.com/Bryce_WINE.jpg ] But since I've upgraded to a newer version of WINE, the startup behaviour of Bryce has become, to paint the screen, but then to let most of the GUI turn black. Bryce is one application, which will use windows that have no visible borders on the desktop. And the GUI seem...