The English and German issue 148 (January/February 2020) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future, and the other Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.

Mag Content:

Review Wayfarer
Review Bifrost A1200 Heimdall Edition
Interview Christian Weber

and so much more ... if you haven't already, get your collectable copy ordered today

A new version of Wayfarer is now available from wayfarer.icu. Changes include faster startup times and several stability and UI improvements.

Iris 0.100 improves folder index loading and saving times, adds an online update check and fixes two crashes. To download, head to iris-morphos.com.

Iris 0.98 is now available. The new version uses the same WebKit as Wayfarer 1.10 for viewing, writing emails and printing. It also comes with the same loader / bug report mechanism as the browser. Viewing emails in subwindows has been streamlined with new Previous/Next email buttons. SMTP/IMAP flows have been improved and POP3 support fixed. Several use-after-free bugs were addressed for improved stability.

Iris is now available in German, French, Turkish and Finnish thanks to the hard work of the MorphOS' Translators.

For a full list of changes and download, head to iris-morphos.com

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.15. This release includes numerous important performance, stability and security improvements. In particular, a number of serious bugs affecting wide range of system components and included applications have been fixed, and many components based on open source projects have been updated to their latest versions. The Odyssey web browser also performs better when browsing HTTPS web pages due to improved certificate validation performance.

Also, the MorphOS development team would like to announce the concurrent release of  MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.16 (December 2020).

This release offers countless improvements in our compilers, includes, libnix, GeekGadget environment and tools. We've included GCC 10, GDB, unzip and nano, and removed GCC 8. GCC 7 and 9 received updates fixing various bugs. libpthread was fixed and improved in various ways to provide more complete threading support. Binutils, OpenSSL, Perl, cURL, Git and OpenSSH, among others, were also updated. The full list of changes may be found in the SDK.readme file included in the distribution.

Despite challenging circumstances, these two releases end one of the most fruitful years in recent MorphOS history. The developers would like to wish all MorphOS user a happy and successful 2021!

More information: morphos-team.net

Wayfarer 1.9 is now out with audio playback support and minor bug fixes.</div>
The media player supports similar codecs as Odyssey, but also the Opus audio codec and MPEG-TS demuxing. HLS support allows listening to many modern radio streams. Media playback can be enabled or disabled per host.

Please see the FAQ for answers on many audio related questions.

Airsoft Softwair would like to inform you that Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE will only be available until December 31st, 2020. Thus, people who are thinking about purchasing Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE should make up their minds quickly. Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE is identical to the standard edition of Hollywood Designer 5.0 except that it comes bundled with a special version of Hollywood 8.0 that can only be used with Hollywood Designer but not on its own. This limitation makes it possible to offer Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE for a much cheaper price than buying Hollywood Designer 5.0 and Hollywood 8.0 separately. To order your copy of Hollywood Designer 5.0 SE, please visit the official Hollywood portal at: http://www.hollywood-mal.com

The standard version of Hollywood Designer 5.0 will continue to be available of course.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in Christmas business, are back on your screen with a major update of hURL - the ultimate multi-protocol data transfer plugin for Hollywood which allows Hollywood scripts to transfer data using all kinds of different network protocols including full SSL support. Version 1.1 is a major update as it now includes full support for SFTP and SCP. Furthermore, this version contains a very important bugfix in the MorphOS version which is why MorphOS users should definitely upgrade to 1.1.

Wayfarer 1.8 is now out with jpeg2k support, latest OpenSSL and cURL, translation services support, network performance and many other improvements. This release also contains several important bug fixes that were impacting overall stability.

To download Wayfarer 1.8, either go to https://wayfarer.icu or select 'Check for Updates' in Wayfarer's menu. To update, simply extract the lha archive and copy all files over your existing installation, replacing old files. Your settings will not be affected.

This makes Hollywood Designer 5.0 the perfect Christmas present: Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working elves in snow business, are proud to present Polybios 1.3. This is a major update which makes it possible to import PDF pages into Hollywood Designer 5.0. Furthermore, it also adds full support for treating PDFs as vector animations in Hollywood and there are some bug fixes as well.

If you don't own Hollywood Designer 5.0 yet, please see here for all details on this powerful software for all your Amiga multimedia needs. This seriously makes a great Christmas present!