Cedega (formerly known as WineX) is TransGaming Technologies' proprietary fork of Wine (from when the license of Wine wasn't the LGPL but the X11 license), which is designed specifically for running games written for Microsoft Windows under Linux. As such, its primary focus is implementing the DirectX API. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 330 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cedega 6. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... TransGaming Technologies is a company that sells a proprietary fork of Wine for running Windows games on Linux and other operating systems. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... Look up genre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In software engineering, a compatibility layer allows binaries for an emulated system to run on a host system. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... TransGaming Technologies is a company that sells a proprietary fork of Wine for running Windows games on Linux and other operating systems. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... In software engineering, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes a copy of source code from one software package and starts to independently develop a new package. ... Wine is a project which aims to allow a PC with an x86 architecture processor running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. ... Wine is a project which aims to allow a PC with an x86 architecture processor running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. ... GNU logo The GNU Lesser General Public License (formerly the GNU Library General Public License) is an FSF approved Free Software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. ... The MIT License, originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a license for the use of certain types of computer software. ... “Computer Games” redirects here. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... Microsoft DirectX is a collection of APIs for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. ... An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that a computer system or program library provides to support requests for services to be made of it by a Length. ...

The community has managed to keep Wine in touch with developments in Cedega; many of the games and 3D applications perform almost as well as when natively running under Microsoft Windows.^{[citation needed]} Wine is a project which aims to allow a PC with an x86 architecture processor running a Unix-like operating system and the X Window System to execute programs that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...

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Licenses

Though Cedega is mainly proprietary software, Transgaming does make part of the source publicly available via CVS, under a mix of licenses. Though this is mainly done to allow a means for non-TG staff to view and submit fixes to the code, it is also frequently used as a means to obtain a sort-of 'demo' version of Cedega. Due to complaints of the difficulty of building a usable version of the program from the public CVS, as well as its outdated nature, Transgaming released a proper demo of Cedega. The demo released by Cedega gave users a 14-day trial of a reasonably current version of the product with a watermark of the Cedega logo which faded from almost transparent to fully opaque every few seconds. This demo was removed without comment and it is not clear if it will be re-released in the future. Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is an open-source version control system invented and developed by Dick Grune in the 1980s. ...

Note that while the licenses under which the code is released do permit non-commercial redistribution of precompiled public-CVS versions of the software, Transgaming strongly discourages this, openly warning that the license of TG-copyrighted sections of code will be changed if they feel abuse is occurring or otherwise threatened. Transgaming similarly discourages source-based distributions like Gentoo Linux from creating automated tools to let people build their own version of Cedega from the public CVS. The Gentoo Linux operating system (pronounced ) is a Linux distribution named after the Gentoo penguin. ...

Functionality

Cedega is able to play many games "out of the box." In some cases it closely mimics the experience that Windows users have (insert disc, run Setup.exe, play). In other cases some amount of user tweaking is required to get the game installed and/or in a state of playability. Cedega 5.2 introduced a feature called the Games Disc Database (GDDB) that simplifies many of these settings and adds auto-game detection when a CD is inserted so that settings are applied for the inserted game automatically.

A basic list of features:

• Some types of copy protection
• Pixel Shaders 2.0
• Vertex Shaders 2.0
• DirectX 9.0
• Joystick support including remapping axes
• The ability to run many Windows games

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See also

• Wine - the free software/open source software which Cedega is based on
• CrossOver - another commercial proprietary Wine-based product, targeted at running productivity/business applications rather than games

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External links

• Cedega product description page
• List of games known to work with Cedega
• Unofficial Transgaming Wiki — User-maintained database of games that work and don't work with Cedega, along with game-specific setup instructions and tweaks
• CVS of Cedega
• Cedega/WineX sources page
• Screencast for installing and testing Cedega on Suse Linux
• Gentoo Newsletter notice about removal of Cedega