Wine-Staging 1.9.3 Brings Improvements For Old Games, Even 16-Bit Apps

It has been quite a while since last having any Wine-Staging release to talk about, but nothing has stopped and simply was due to the project not having the time for putting out release notes. Wine-Staging continues to ride off upstream Wine while adding in over one hundred experimental patches for testing.'

Wine-Staging 1.9.3 has more than 116 new patches compared to the last release that featured the release notes. One of the big focuses recently by the Wine-Staging developers was on fixing compatibility with older games, including16-bit applications.

Wine-Staging 1.9.3 also has fixes for Qt environment variable handling and a number of other bug fixes.

More details on Wine-Staging 1.9.3 can be found via the Wine-Staging.com announcement. They also put out a complementary blog post about how Windows 3.1 / 16-bit apps work with Wine.