IceDoctor 1.3 released

o Less memory used when salvaging files
o "Rebuilding reuse linkage" phase could freeze computer, fixed
o Hard links were always seen as broken, fixed

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Airsoft Softwair has just released a new plugin for Hollywood 5 - Infinity. This plugin enables all Hollywood scripts to load and save images in the TIFF format. TIFF is a format that offers lossless compression and the possibility to store images with alpha channels. Although many Amiga systems already have a TIFF datatype installed, it's still recommended to install this plugin because OS4's TIFF datatype doesn't support alpha channel graphics and saving via datatypes is also problematic on many systems.

You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood 5's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel), Windows and Google's Android platform are provided.

New version IRC client for MorphOS is out. More details on my home webpage

Version has been bumped from 2.0 to 2.1

Vectrex is a vector-based video games console released in 1982.

Download: http://jupp3.binaryriot.org/releases/ports/vecxgl.lha

Games can be (legally) downloaded from: http://www.arcadeathome.com/dl.phtml?vectrex/vectrexroms.zip

Odyssey 1.20 has been released. Amongst its changes:

- Updated to WebKit r144529 (March 2013). Amongst many other fixes, it cures an issue with some asp sites.
- Added copy image URL location in image contextmenu.
- Now uses MorphOS cairo/pixman/fontconfig shared libraries.
- Plugins are now expected to have version 2 or later.
- With spellchecker.library 50.1+ (MorphOS 3.2+), word learning feature is now functional.
- More bugfixes in websockets handling.
- Don't crash when HTML5 desktop notifications are invoked.

A new version of swfdec has been released as well, to support Odyssey using cairo shared library. As a bonus, it should be a bit faster than before. The audio routine has also been reworked, and requires latest Reggae to work.

Odyssey 1.20 (26MiB)
swfdec_plugin 2.0 (8MiB)

MultiPlay is the first prorgam using new Reggae 3.1.7 feature, namely gapless music playback. It is a shell commands. It accepts any number of audio files as arguments, then plays them one by one as a continuous audio stream. It is intentionally made simple, as the source code is included, on permissive BSD license. Then being an usefull tool it also serves as programming example. However with lossy formats (like MP3) joins of streams may be still heard sometimes, MultiPlay will also work with coming FLAC decoder, and this format, being lossless, provides perfect joining. Note that Reggae Update 3.1.7 has to be installed for MultiPlay. The program can be found in the download section or installed with Grunch.

Available to donwload the new version of V.A.M.P. 0.94 the Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player programmed with Hollywood.

This new version has big improvements, as bugs correction and to choose your language among those available: Spanish, English, Italian, French, and Suomi. And the use the new Hollywood plug-in to see jpeg2000 files with this Multiplayer for MorphOS, AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3.5-3.9, and Windows.

Download here from the new official site: www.vamp.pm also www.vamp.es

New update for Reggae multimedia framework is now available. The key features of this update are two new classes. The first, clipboard.stream provides read access to the system clipboard for the rest of Reggae, media files can be now automatically decoded from clips. The second class, gapless.filter, is a base building block for audio players featuring gapless playback. The first, very simple, shell based player using this feature will be released this week. Three other classes, file.output, audio.output, and the base multimedia.class have been also updated with improvements and bugfixes. Users speaking Swedish or Turkish will also get some locale files. All new features are documented in updated compiler headers and sutodocs, so developers won't be disappointed. The package can be automatically installed with Grunch, or downloaded from the download section and installed with included Installer script. In both cases the MorphOS SDK is updated automatically if detected.

Airsoft Softwair has just released a new plugin for Hollywood 5 - Infinity. This plugin enables all Hollywood scripts to load and save images in the JPEG2000 format. JPEG2000 is the successor to the popular JPEG format and offers multiple advantages over its predecessor including lossless compression and the possibility to store images with alpha channels. Additionally, when a JPEG2000 plugin is available and you compile executables for Mac OS X, Hollywood will be able to create Mac OS X icons in the resolutions 256x256 and 512x512 as well because these images are encoded using JPEG2000 bitstreams.

You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood 5's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel), Windows and Google's Android platform are provided.

MorphOS.pl is happy to announce a co-operation with Szilárd "Bszili" Biró which has resulted in the bounty for TORCS game port for MorphOS. The aim is to collect an amount of 100€. Timeframe is set to 45 days. If the amount will exceed 100€, funds might be used for further ports of games or software. Bounty is expected to initiate a series of ports of games and software so don't hesitate to support Bszili. We are waiting for new port ideas so please share with us.