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.

Steffen Gutmann released an update of the relational, programmable database MUIbase.

Download it from: http://www.os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=office/database/muibase.lha

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A game for kids is now available for MorphOS.
http://www.keho-software.com/pengobrain_hollywood.html

The goal of this little computer game is feeding penguin PENGO with a tasty fish. Sounds easy ? - Our hero must use a predefined path through a very dangerous icefield to reach the fish safely. Remember this way and lead PENGO to his delicious fish. The game becomes more difficult level by level - round by round. Watch for animals, bonus, beams, tunnels, switches and much more to discover on your way feeding pengo. Be clever and make a plan if you reach the higher levels.

Roadshow has been released in version 1.9 The update archive is available for free on the website of Roadshow.

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On request, i decided to release a recent version of MAME. It's based on 0.148.
Amongst its features:

- Builtin MUI GUI with screenshots and history.dat/mameinfo.dat support and per-game configurations.
- Optimized triple-buffered display routines.
- Overlay support, offering free scaling and filtering. To avoid struggling with exotic screenmodes, MAME clones the Ambient desktop resolution when switching to fullscreen/overlay mode (unless specified otherwise).
- Blanker control
- AHI output
- Joypad / Mouse support
- ...

Click here to download (46MB)

New MomosIRC is available with full support to RFC2812 and debug enabled.

You can download application from site.

Direct link: http://www.mguc.ppa.pl/webpages/momosirc/download/MomosIRC_beta3.lha

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.3. The following (and more) changes have been made over version 2.2:

- regular/symetric polygons
- "private" tools for polygon and bezier, options for moving/adding/removing points will
appear in context-menu while edit-tool is active (for bezier only move points).

Available via Grunch, or directly at:

http://www.steamdraw.homepage.t-online.de/SteamDraw.lha

Website www.meta-morphos.org is pleased to offer the pack Chrysalis 3.1.2 for MorphOS 3.1.

This pack allows you to quickly obtain a complete environment preconfigured. This pack is not official, it must installed just after clean installation MorphOS 3.1 (registered or not). To install the package, simply mount the ISO image and click the "Install PackChrysalis" icon.  Feel free to improve this pack by providing a software, translation, idea, etc ...

The ISO image is freely downloadable from the following link:
http://meta-morphos.org/download/pack/chrysalis.iso

eGame now fully lives-up to it's description as a "Game Launcher", because <em>it's now possible to add disk images & 'foreign' executables, and have them automatically loaded by the appropriate emulator (e.g. Hatari, DOSBox, VICE, E-UAE) or game system (e.g. Frotz)

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