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

After 8 years of "abduction", a new version of SnapIT (1.0) has been released.

The ultimate healer and rescuer of IceFS volumes has been updated to version 1.5.

Download it here: http://blubbedev.net/icefs/doctor.html

The full colour preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 105 (November/December 2013) are now available online.

It includes an article about the MorphOS application "Scriba"

The beta version 26 of DigiBooster 3 for MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and AmigaOS 3 was published online. Since it is probably one of the last beta versions before the final release, we invite every user to test and report the version as detailed as possible and write all bug reports directly to the DigiBooster support forum. Beta 26 of DigiBooster 3 has all the key features in place and will be the basis of the public release of the program planned in 2014. Major features added since latest public beta 22 are:

The biggest Amiga event in Finland in over 10 years was successful with over 200 visitors. You can find photos and videos from the event page.

Rupert "naTmeg" Hausberger has published drivers for Promise SATA II 150/300-series PCI-adapters. The minimum requirements are MorphOS 1.x or higher so users running old MorphOS set ups can utilitze them as well.

Features:

Up to 2 adapters ATA/ATAPI support UDMA/PIO support ATA SCSI-emulation ATAPI disk-change handler

EXEC/TD/TD64/SCSI commands 64-bit support (drives > 2TB) S.M.A.R.T. support Support for query.library (HDConfig/Mounter)

You can download the drivers and sources on the following page: http://www.219.dic.at

Yet another MorphOS.pl bounty is set for implementing a PowerPC code generator for Webkit, allowing it to compile JavaScript into native PowerPC code which in the end results in JavaScript executing faster (common called JIT JS). When bounty will be finished, this code will be implemented in the latest available version of Odyssey Web Browser. The bounty minimal sum is set to 800 €, estimated timeframe is 60 days since minimal bounty sum will be collected. Bounty taker is Mark „BigFoot” Olsen. You can participate in this bounty here.

MorphOS.pl is happy to anounce another bounty. This time bounty is for Despotify port for MorphOS. What is Despotify? It's an open source Spotify client. Disadventages of this software are: working in text-mode only and requirement of premium account at Spotify service. Bounty taker is Szilárd „BSzili” Biró and the minimum amount is set to 100 euros. You can contribute to that bounty here. We are also glad to finalize two game bounties: Return to the Roots and OpenXCOM ports. We would like to say big thank you to all the donors and to bounty developers.

After two months of number crunching the Team MorphOS advanced another 100 places up and entered the top 100 of distributed.net OGR-27 contest. Now is the time for the real struggle. Why not to join our 28 members and accelerate the progress?