AEP Emulation Page reports that Wine, the open source implementation of the Windows API for X and Unix, has been updated to version 0.9.4. Below are the changes in this version.

 

- Improvements to the IDL compiler.

- Some infrastructure work for loadable driver support.

- The usual assortment of Direct3D improvements.

- IME support in the edit control.

- Better support for AVI animations.

- Debugging support improvements.

- Relay traces now work on NX platforms.

You can visit the official homepage of Wine here.

PDRoms reports that Neopop GP2x has been released. Neopop GP2x is a port of NeoPop, the Neo Geo Pocket/Pocket Color emulator, to the GP2x by Madelman. You can find out more information here.

retroguru.com reports that eSwan, the Bandai WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color emulator for the Sony Playstation Portable, has been updated to version 0.09. This version is the result of the 3 sound test releases. You can visit the official homepage of eSwan here or simply download it here.

The Emulation64 Network reports that GameEx, the DirectX front-end (for MAME, ZiNc, Daphne, PC Games, and all command line based emulators), has been updated to version 5.32. Below are the changes in this release.

 

- I spent a fair bit of time trying optimize memory usage and clean things up resulting in possibly a slightly leaner and faster GameEx.

- It uses 5-25 MB less ram now. For me anyway.

- Startup is quicker if using Jukebox in Windows Media player mode, at least by 1-2 seconds.

- It seems to run a fair bit faster on my laptop.

- Theres a new theme variation in the install, BlueEx - Snap. Nothing too special

- I fixed the issues with the BlueEx MCE theme overriding the MCE startup and exit mode.

- The default theme is no longer animated as there were reports that this slowed things down, although I've no real idea why.

- I've added a default - animated theme.

- Anyone complaining of bloat (and not from Christmas chocolate), please at least give this version a go.

You can visit the official homepage of GameEx here or simply download it here.