Fueling the Mac Revolution
Wineskin
Project started by doh123, to make a Wine based wrapper for porting Windows software to Macs. Uses Xquartz built in…. and is released open source under the LGPL license.
Wineskin changes, need testers…
Mar 9th
I’ve been making some major changes to Wineskin as some of you know…
I just about have a test version ready, and really need a few testers to work with me that will really pound into it and try many things and find bugs, or just things that can be made More >
Achievement Unlocked! We are no. 1!
Jan 24th
A lot has happened over the last few weeks, and many great Games have been ported, thanks to the awesome members of the Porting Team Community.
We’d like to give the following members of the Porting Team Community a big thanks for their splendid achievements and their work on the Ports.
Wineskin RC5 released
Dec 7th
I know RC4 has only been out a few days, and has 117 downloads… but as I get closer to a full 1.0 release, there’s less and less to do… Need more suggestions or bug reports… or its looking like RC5 might end up being 1.0, or close.
List of changes More >
Wineskin RC4 released!
Dec 3rd
Releasing RC4 out in the wild, it has a bunch of changes…
I completely restructured most of the wrapper, its very different inside…
I have mostly re-writen everything since RC3, though overall functionality is very similar, and there are a lot less bugs. most of that restructure you do NOT have to More >
Wineskin Plans
Nov 12th
I’m in the process of changing Wineskin around… its still basically going to be the same app it is now, but it needs to be better in many ways.
My first plan is to open source Wineskin under a LGPL license. This will allow more use of it by people, including More >
Wineskin 1.1.32RC3 released
Nov 5th
New in this version
- Updated default Wine version to 1.1.32
- still built with OpenAL and Win16 disabled… can’t get them to work… but shouldn’t really matter for anything as of yet.
- Option to set flags added
- WineskinConfig.app now lets you set flags after the executable for the main wrapper, and for CustomEXE More >
Wineskin 1.1.31RC2 released
Oct 22nd
New in this version 1.1.31RC2
- WineskinConfig.app
- all the internal .app files have been bundled up into a single app
- Xquartz monitoring for auto-quit fixed
- Xquartz will only quit now if either wineserver quits, or if WineskinConfig.app quits if it started from there.
- Common Direct3D registry changes done via menu
- Part of WineskinConfig.app, you More >
Wineskin1.1.31RC1
Oct 13th
I’ve made available RC1. Its running great, needs more testing though… please help out.
New Features
- Folder Mapping Fixed!
- Folder’s should map right now, with any of the WIneskin apps you run, for anyone who runs the wrapper, so anyone you give a port or wrapper to will have them automatically mapped. More >
Wineskin1.1.31beta4 Released!
Oct 10th
some refinement… getting closer to getting done with beta some day!
New in this version 1.1.31beta4
- Folder Mapping Added!
- By default now when you run something on any computer, it will create the right user file inside of the wrapper under the fake C drive, and make some drive mappings. “Desktop” will More >
Wineskin 1.1.30 beta2.1 Released!
Oct 3rd
I’ve finished Wineskin 1.1.30 beta2, and I’m making it available for download!
Please report any found bugs to me ASAP!
Slight update to 2.1 – fixed an annoying bug causing XQuartz to mess up if spaces were in the path or app name.
New in this version 1.1.30beta2
- Built in Xquartz 2.4.0
- Xquartz is More >

