Hello all,
I just joined up to the mailing list so thought I would say hello to everyone :-)
I am a student studying Computer Science at Manchester University (UK) and am interested in helping the development of Wine. I decided the first step was to hop on the mailing lists and see whats going on!
I have experience in writing basic Operating Systems (In ARM Assembler, as well as making ARM's work with FPGA's if your interested) and knowledge of fundamental OS functions so I hope they will come in useful at some stage. Also got a good grasp of C/C++, UNIX and Windows / Windows Server.
My motivation with joining Wine was primarily to one-day get Counterstrike:Source working properly. Secondary is the fact I am fed-up completely with Windows but unfortunately have apps that are not supported in Linux / Unix and would like to get them ported onto Wine.
Hope to get talking with you all soon,
Regards,
Hi!
Welcome to wine :-)
The best way to start doing something is to pick something you want to work that doesn't work they way you like it. Since you mentioned Counter-Strike Source you have done that already :-) . In the course of that you will stuble uppon more things that need work for sure.
A warning though, Wine is a pretty complex piece of software, and the APIs it implements are very complex. Getting started can be very tough, so don't give up too early ;-) Of course we will try you to help you as good as possible.
I am a bit puzzled that you say Cs source doesn't work properly. It should run next to perfect in dxlevel 80/81, I have made a lot of fixes for Crossover for this game. In dxlevel 90 there are some problems left though, namely the missing support for sRGB textures.
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