News for Thursday, 23 June 2005

CodeWeavers, a software developer company, has announcement that on of its main product, CrossOver and CrossOver Office, will have extended pabailites in a near future making Windows application running on OSX Mac.
One of reader (thanks oreixa) has sent us some details:

Codeweavers is based on open source project
Wine and provides to unix systems like Linux or OSX (in the future) a
free implementation of windows system libraries, So with it installed
you can run certain win apps directly on Linux or OSX no need for
migrate or recompile, just install directly from discs.

Indeed CrossOver is based on WINE (or the longer version : Wine Is Not Emulation), which is nothing but a full set of reversed engineered Win32 APIs. So once installed on a Mac, windows applications will run on WINE thinking that theyr run on Windows. There is no emulation involved or required.
This is probably the best news we have heard since Apple's official announcements for x86 transition. So the number of MacOSXtel compatible applications should dramatically increase whereas some were predicting a decrease following the decision to use Intel CPU.
At the end, it is not the Mac that is going to the PC, but rather the PC that is coming to the Mac.

The GF7800 is officially announced, and then several test are currently available on the web:
-http://www.hardocp.com
-http://graphics.tomshardware.com
-http://www.presence-pc.com
In summary, this card is more powerful than the GF6800 (30-40%), less noisy but it releases more heat...
This new graphic card should be available at a similar price than the current 6800.
For the Mac users, it remains unclear if we will have this card in our current PMG5 or if we will have to wait for the first high-end Mactel.
Beside that, the main limiting factor in our Macs, is not only the limiting number of GPU cards available but also the lack of optimized drivers.

NeoOffice/J, is now available in version 1.1. This version fixes many bugs even though it remains impossible to print in higher resolution than 300dpi.
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/fr/download.php