18.0.0 / 16 October 2018; 2 months ago ( 2018-10-16), Website CrossOver is a available for. This compatibility layer enables many -based to run on macOS or Linux operating systems. CrossOver is developed by and based on, an Windows compatibility layer. CodeWeavers modifies the Wine, applies compatibility, adds tools that are more, automated installation scripts, and provides. All changes made to the Wine source code are covered by the and publicly available. CodeWeavers maintains an online database listing how well various Windows applications perform under CrossOver.
Apr 22, 2008 - With so many great games now exclusive to Windows, are Mac and Linux. Not if Codeweavers and its new program Crossover Games has. CrossOver Mac runs Windows productivity software, utility programs, and games all in one application. And without the overhead of a virtual machine, programs and games can run as fast or faster than they would under a Windows operating system.
Contents. Versions CrossOver Linux CrossOver Linux is the original version of CrossOver. It aims to properly integrate with the and so that Windows applications will run seamlessly on Linux distributions. Prior to version 6 it was called CrossOver Office. CrossOver Linux was originally offered in Standard and Professional editions. CrossOver Linux Standard was designed for a single user account on a single machine.
CrossOver Linux Professional provided enhanced deployment and management features for corporate users, as well as multiple user accounts per machine. With the release of CrossOver Linux 11 in 2012 these different editions have all merged into a single CrossOver Linux product.
CrossOver Mac In 2005 announced a transition from to processors in their computers, which allowed CodeWeavers to develop a version of CrossOver Office called 'CrossOver Mac' CrossOver Mac was released on January 10, 2007. With the release of CrossOver Mac 7 on June 17, 2008, CrossOver Mac was divided into Standard and Pro editions like CrossOver Linux. The Standard version included six months of support and upgrades, while the Pro version included one year of support and upgrades, along with a free copy of CrossOver Games.
With the release of CrossOver Mac 11 in 2012 these different editions were all merged into a single CrossOver Mac product. Discontinued products A standard copy of CrossOver now includes the functionality of CrossOver Games, CrossOver Standard, and CrossOver Professional editions. These older individual versions of Crossover have since been retired.
CrossOver Games, announced on 10 March 2008, was a product intended to let users play a broad range of games by providing current Wine patches. The expectation was that it would update on a weekly to monthly schedule in order to incorporate the latest programming work being accepted. In contrast the general CrossOver Office product focused more on stability and productivity software, and had a much slower beta and release schedule. CrossOver Games wasn't able to release updates with enough frequency to justify its separate production track and was discontinued in 2012. It was merged back into a unified CrossOver product. CrossOver Server was a specialized version of CrossOver Linux which allowed Windows applications to run on systems. It was discontinued in 2007 as many of its features were present in the CrossOver Linux Pro edition.
Software giveaway On October 28, 2008 as the result of the, gave all of their products away for free. Codeweavers' main page was temporarily replaced due to the day's unusually high traffic. According to CodeWeavers at least 750,000 product registrations were given away during October 28. On October 31, 2012, CodeWeavers had a second software giveaway, this one entitled 'Flock the Vote'. CodeWeavers promised to have such a giveaway if 100,000 American voters would promise to vote on election day, in a bid to encourage. More than 100,000 people pledged, so CodeWeavers allowed any person in the world to download and register a copy of CrossOver Linux or CrossOver Mac.
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Retrieved October 17, 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018. (Press release). SAINT PAUL, MN: CodeWeavers.
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Retrieved 2009-01-03. Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (October 28, 2008). Computerworld Blogs. Retrieved 2009-01-03. Kruchowski, Anna.
CodeWeavers blog. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
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CrossOver Games is the perfect tool for all Mac users who like to play in their computers and who would like to have all the games of the market that they like. For them, CrossOver Games is the perfect tool as it will allow them to have all the videogames for Windows in their Mac Intel. We can have the adventure games, the games in first person, strategy games, etc, without having to install Windows. CrossOver Games supports a huge amount of games, almost endless, like World of Warcraft, EVE Online, Guild Wars, Prey, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress, Counterstrike, Civilization IV, Call of Duty 2, Max Payne 2, Grand Theft Auto 2 and many more, even that there are some that may be not compatible with it. Also, CrossOver Games will offer us a new and fast way to install all the games for Windows in our Mac, thanks to its interface.
We will just need to make a couple of clicks so the installation of the games that we have selected starts and, once it has finished, we will be able to play to all of them with no problems at all.