Wine-981211 is released | Linux Today

Wine-981211 is released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 11, 1998

“This is release 981211 of Wine, a free implementation of
Windows on Unix. This is still a developers only release.”

WHAT’S NEW with Wine-981211: (see ChangeLog for details)

  • A lot of code moved around for a better structure.
  • New console support.
  • Beginnings of TTY driver.
  • Tons of new stubs.
  • More DOS and native USER support.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Download locations:


ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-981211.tar.gz


ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/Wine/development/Wine-981211.tar.gz


ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-981211.tar.gz


ftp://ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Wine/development/Wine-981211.tar.gz

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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