Iris beta 91 is now available for download from its website

Iris' use of the Gmail IMAP interface has now been verified by Google, removing security warnings and restrictions when configuring Gmail accounts.

Airsoft Softwair has just released the manual for the brand-new Hollywood Designer 5.0. Hollywood Designer 5.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. After 8 years of development, version 5.0 was released a few weeks ago.

The full manual of Hollywood Designer 5.0 is now available for everybody to read on the official Hollywood portal in both HTML and PDF versions. Both documents contain lots of screenshots to illustrate the use of Hollywood Designer 5.0 better. It also contains a detailed changelog of what has changed between Designer 4.0 (2012) and Designer 5.0 (2020).

Finally, the full manual of Hollywood Designer 5.0 is also available in German now thanks to the incredible translation efforts by Dominic Widmer and Helmut Haake. Besides HTML and PDF versions there is also a zip archive you can download which contains the manual as an AmigaGuide document that can be used as a drop-in replacement so that Hollywood Designer's live help system is in German too. The German version is available in the German section of the official Hollywood portal.

The following articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months:

MorphOS related:

- May/June 2020 news.
- Interview with Bruno Peloille (MorphOS developer).
- Review of MUIMapparium 0.8.
- Review of Heroes Of Might And Magic 2.
- Tutorial: Utilization of Open Firmware.

Iris beta 85 can now be downloaded from iris-morphos.com.

Many of the internal systems were refactored and improved since the last public release cycle. Iris will now display GMail threads. The autoconfiguration of emails was significantly improved, especially for GMail-managed domains and Yahoo.

Encore demo scene group released final versions of demos for MorphOS: Morphoza and Morphilia. Executable versions of these productions are available on MorphOS Storage and Aminet,. Demos rendered to video are available on YouTube.

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the release of the MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.14 (April 2020).

This release is our biggest update yet and offers countless improvements in our compilers, includes, libnix, GeekGadget environment, tools and ixemul.library. We've updated GCC 8 and 9 to their latest versions. Binutils, cmake and git, among others, were also updated. The full list of changes may be found in the SDK.readme file included in the distribution.

Our new SDK requires MorphOS 3.13 and about 2 GB of free disk space and can be found in our files section. As usual, a separate source package is available for download as well.

Legends never die: Eight years after the release of Hollywood Designer 4.0, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are finally proud to present the long awaited fifth incarnation of our famous Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer 5.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world!

Screenshot.sbar can grab single Windows, multiple Windows, freely selectable rectangle areas, even areas simply drawn with the mouse and much more and save them in multiple image formats while residing patiently in your screens titlebar.

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New in this version:

• Fixed a nasty bug that made the task responsible for grabbing ("Snapper.n") crash on saving an image when two or more screens were open and one got closed.
  
• The iris effect didn't fill the whole screen when it came close to screen borders. Fixed.
  
• Mouse pointer opacity wasn't calculated at all. Fixed.
  
• TestPaint: Added another mode to arrows that also draws an arrow head at the start of the arrow, so the arrow points to two directions.
  
• TestPaint: Optimized redraw of paint object.
  
• TestPaint: Sped up symmetry tool calculations by a factor of three brazillion.
  
• TestPaint: Repeat last draw op (the Recycle-Button) didn't really work. Fixed.
  
• TestPaint: Fixed offset of the cursor when zoom window was open and the zoomed area became smaller than the window.
  
• TestPaint: The window can be sized larger than the actual image now.
  

Download Screenshot.sbar V1.2 HERE

With this new SmartClipboard screenbar plugin, you are able to defineactions if you copy something to the clipboard.

Its usefull, if you f.e. read a documentation of a newly downloadedprogram in MultiView etc.
Imagine there are links to a website, a youtube video or the email addressof the author in this documentation.

Previously you had to mark the text with the link, copy it to theclipboard, then open the appropriate program and paste the text there.
Quiet uncormfortable, heh?

Now, you can just mark the text and copy it to the clipboard. Thats all!

My SmartClipboard compares the copied text with the defined patterns andexecutes the corresponding command!

 

Here are some examples, which are handled by the standard actions:
• if you copy a http(s) url (like http://www.Igracki.de) to the clipboard, the website will be automatically opened in your standard browser
• a youtube url like http://youtu.be/-dyRRUts594
• if you copy "Thomas@Igracki.de" the standard email program will be opened to write a mail to "Thomas@Igracki.de"
• if you copy an url which links to an image in the internet, an external tool (ViewWebImage) will be opened to display the internet image without the need for a web browser
• furthermore, if you copy something which looks like a filepath, a new lister with the filepath will be opened in Ambient

A blast from the past! Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present the XMP plugin for Hollywood. Once this plugin is installed, Hollywood will "automagically" be able to play almost all flavours of Amiga & PC tracker module formats. All formats that are supported by the Extended Module Player library (XMP) by Claudio Matsuoka and Hipolito Carraro Jr can now be played with Hollywood! For example FastTracker II, ScreamTracker, OctaMED, The Player 4/5/6, NoisePacker, ProRunner, Oktalyzer, Impulse Tracker, Ultra Tracker, Ice Tracker, Liquid Tracker, Quadra Composer, and many more.

Additionally, a demo applet which demonstrates the playback of an OctaMED file is included. This applet can also be run using the freely available Hollywood Player so people who don't own the full version of Hollywood can check it out as well.