Wine

Wine allows OS X users to run Windows applications.

(Note: this listing is for the official release of Wine, which only provides source code. If you want a version of Wine that is packaged specifically for OS X, then use Winebottler, available here.)

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, OS X, and BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

• XAudio2 implementation using OpenAL Soft.
• Support for the new Universal C Runtime DLL.
• Dropdown menu support in the standard Open Dialog.
• Grayscale rendering mode in DirectWrite.
• Various bug fixes:
  • flipviewer fails to load
  • FlushFileBuffers() fails on disk volume, sets ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE when handle supposedly valid
  • notepad: running notepad with a non-existent file and choosing yes to create a new file should do so immediately (appinstall)
  • SimCity2000: race condition causes crash in MCI during startup
  • uninstaller has no proper usage message
  • Diablo 2 - sound works in menu, stops after starting game
  • cnet download app cannot download anything
  • 4th Dimension 6.5.4 crashes
  • Sonic Generations: needs "C:usersusernameMy DocumentsMy Games" to exist
  • Sonic Generations: configuration tool turns into a zombie process when closed
  • Sonic Generations: no audio
  • Afterburner 3D: screen not drawn properly (orm=fbo)
  • No Navigation in panel / Heredis 9
  • Multiple DirectX10 games need D3D11CreateDevice implementation with D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_10_x support (Bioshock Infinite, Age of Mythology: Extended Edition, GRID )
  • DARK (2013) doesn't launches without native quartz
  • valgrind shows an invalid read in msxml3/tests/saxreader.c
  • Project64: about page is black
  • valgrind shows uninitialized memory use in usp10/tests/usp10.c
  • Incorrect check in PlayEnhMetaFileRecord() with case == EMR_SCALEWINDOWEXTEX
  • LTSpice netlist text unreadable (monospaced text glyphs are misplaced and overlapping)
  • python 3.1.1: test_test_decimal failed
  • echo/ not works as expected (like echo. and echo:)
  • Multiple games and applications need proper handling of Vista+ 'PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION' right (UPlay games, MS Visual Studio 2015 installer)
  • Unimplemented function mfplat.dll.MFGetPluginControl
  • valgrind shows uninitialized memory in update_net_wm_states()
  • El Matador, Exodus from the Earth have rendering issues when anti-aliasing enabled
  • PunkBuster 'PnkBstrB.exe' initialization fails (K32EnumProcessModules write to NULL pointer)
  • regsvr32: Flags should be processed before files
  • IVONA Voices (SAPI TTS): Trial period (30 days) prematurely expires as soon as wineserver session ends
  • Multiple games render pink artifacts (O2Jam, Stranded II, SpaceRace)
  • o2jam doesnt close completely after exit the game, it stays on the process
  • Reinstalling Nvidia Physx adds path multiple times to 'HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerEnvironmentPath'
  • Multiple applications wrapped with XenoCode Postbuild 2009 application sandboxing crash with stack overflow ('NtWaitForSingleObject' must not call 'NtWaitForMultipleObjects')
  • Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 don't exit properly
  • dlls/xaudio2_7 fails to compile (unconditional dependency on OpenAL)
  • TP Link CPL administration tool crashed on : unimplemented function wpcap.dll.pcap_parsesrcstr