TransGaming Point2Play 1.2.1 Release Notes
                                February 17, 2004



Welcome to TransGaming Point2Play 1.2.1, which is the latest version
of our official graphical frontend to WineX.

Please refer to the Point2Play HowTo Guide, available in the
Downloads section of the transgaming.com website, and also from
the help menu with Point2Play itself, for detailed usage
instructions:

 http://downloads.transgaming.com/files/Point2Play_howto-1.3-1.1.2.1.txt

If you require assistance, please feel free to make a post to the
Point2Play forum.  Make sure to mark your post as a support request
if you require a timely response from TransGaming's staff.

 http://www.transgaming.com/postlist.php?forum=884


New in this release:
====================

- Point2Play has been translated into two new languages, Danish (thanks to
  Frederik Dannemare) and Dutch (thanks to Yuri van Oers), in addition to
  updated German and Portuguese translations. Thanks a lot to our volunteer
  translators!

  We are looking for volunteers to finish off our partial translations for 
  Polish and Spanish as well as to provide translations to other languages.

  If you'd like to provide a new translation, or provide a correction
  to one, please follow the translation howto instructions available
  here:
   http://downloads.transgaming.com/files/Point2Play_Translation.Howto-1.1-1.1.3.1.en.txt

- New joystick configuration option - you can now configure joystick for use with
  games via Point2Play. You can configure your joysticks for use across all
  games as well as override the configuration on a game by game basis.
  Other new configuration options that are available include configuring VRAM and AGP
  Memory, activating better fonts support and specifying a webbrowser to use
  for games that start a webbrowser.

- Provided simple method to download and integrate the Microsoft Core
  Fonts for use with WineX Versions 3.3 and later. This improves the
  appearance of text in installers and some games such as Steam.

- Tooltips are now available in the LARGE packages (we are now packaging the 
  latest versions of Point2Play's dependent libraries)

- Made the --run option easier to use and fixed a bug that happened sporadically
  with games that had spaces in the name

- Scrollbars now appear in the WineX version listboxes if you have a lot of
  WineX versions installed.

- Newer WineX versions will no longer overwrite any custom config settings you
  have with a particular game.


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How To Install Point2Play
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Point2Play is available in a variety of pre-built binary packages
designed to suit most Linux distributions. 

First select the package that is right for you:

rpm - RedHat Package Management (RedHat Linux, Mandrake Linux, SuSE Linux, etc)

To install the Point2Play rpm package, open a console/terminal window
and execute the following command as 'root':

 # rpm  -ivh  Point2Play-[version].rpm

deb - Debian Package (Debian GNU/Linux, Corel/Xandros Linux, Lindows,
etc)

To install the Point2Play deb package, open a console/terminal window
and execute the following command as 'root':

# dpkg  -i  Point2Play_[version].deb

tgz - Tar GZipped Package (Slackware Linux, etc.)

To install the Point2play tgz package, open a console/terminal window
and execute the following commands as 'root':

 # cd /
 # tar -xvzf  Point2Play-[version].tgz


==================
Known Issues
==================

- Distributions such as SuSE 8.2 and Debian Unstable use a version of pthreads which 
  only allows for a 2 megabyte per thread stack size.  Most games do not require more
  than 2 megabytes per thread, however some games such as Metal of Honor: Allied Assault
  do require more than 2 megabytes and will not work.  If you use a release of
  WineX more recent than 3.2 then you can play without pthreads and not
  face this limitation ; however, WineX versions 3.0 and 3.1 DO require
  pthreads and will suffer from the limitation described.

  You can see if your distribution has this issue by running the "Test if POSIX
  Threads (pthreads) Are Required" test in the "System Tests" tab in Point2Play.

- Renaming Program Group may affect game functionality as there is a 
  slight chance that renaming a program group could affect
  the functionality of the games contained in it, especially regarding
  registry entries with unix paths rather than Windows paths.




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