TransGaming Point2Play 1.2 Release Notes
                             January 21, 2003



Welcome to TransGaming's Point2Play 1.2, 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-1.2-1.1.2.1.en.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:
====================

- P2P has been fully translated into German thanks to Bernie Pallek
  (tausendeck) and SUSE and Portuguese thanks to Evandro Gardenali
  (hk).  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-1.0-1.1.3.1.en.txt

- Ability to install and use standard WineX packages and share them
  with multiple Point2Play users rather than installing WineX for each
  user, saving disk space.  (only works with WineX versions 3.2.1 and
  newer)

- GTK errors and warnings on some Linux distributions are now
  fixed. P2P will co-operate better with your window manager's themes

- Downloading and installing WineX versions through P2P is now more
  robust

- Added tooltips to options in the Configure Game popup to ease use.
  (Only available from small Point2Play packages)

- Can now pass games commandline options when using the --run cmdline
  option

- Program groups are available immediately after install begins,
  rather than at the end of the install when icons are created

- Other minor bug fixes 


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How To Install Point2Play
=========================

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, 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, 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.

- Tooltips for items in the Configure Game popup window are currently
  only available from the small package version of Point2Play due to a
  bug in GTK 2.0.

- 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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