Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2012! To vote for the best MorphOS, AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4, or AROS games, you can rate them at Amiga Games Award 2012. There will be no "global" winner but a winner by systems (MorphOS, AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x and AROS). The final results will be published Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

The CygnusED webpage is online via a new URL - http://www.cygnused.de. CygnusED is currently produced by Olaf Barthel and is one of the most popular text editors for the Amiga. Albeit slowly, the development of the program is still continuing. We'd like to get your opinion and thoughts as to what features you'd wish for future versions of CygnusEd. Please let us know your ideas by writing to us in the support forum of CygnusEd's new webpages so that we can consider supporting them for the program's future releases.

Just in time for New Year there's another major update to our Amiga Software Database (ASD) at Amiga Future. In the last few weeks we've added and edited several hundred entries, and nearly 1000 new scans. Almost 5000 scanned images of original software/application packaging, manuals, etc. are now included in more than 3700 entries of the database. The next steps will include further additions of CD-ROMs, and (Cover-) Discs and Magazines, an estimated 2000 entries more will be available. Enjoy viewing the largest database of application software and literature related to the Amiga! By the way, issue 100 of the Amiga Future magazine is now available. It's ready and waiting for you to buy it at selected Amiga dealers or directly from our online shop.

eGame now works fully on MorphOS! eGame allows you to keep an easily searchable list of games for playing – rather than having to hunt through lots of folders using Workbench/Wanderer/Ambient. Please note that eGame is only able to start games that you can already run by double-clicking them.

Yet another image manipulation program written in Hollywood? At the first glance A.H.I.W. by MorgueSoft is exactly this. Its hand-drawn GUI, non system friendly localization and set of basic options are typical for this class of software. There are two exceptions however. The first one is extensive documentation in PDF format. The second are a few interesting filters, not to be found in competing software. Examples are "old photo" filter, which is much more than just ordinary sepia, and conversion to binary black and white image with Floyd-Steinberg dithering. The program may be downloaded from the download section.

Since today there is an update available, so Roadshow can also be used on MorphOS. Roadshow is much faster than the internal TCP/IP stack of MorphOS 3.1. Please note, that with MorphOS a manual installation of roadshow is required. The supplied installation script will not run under MorphOS. The user should therefore be familiar with the operating system. The manually installed Roadshow is now directly usable and requires no further intervention to boot. New sample files for the network usage on the Pegasos / Pegasos II, and for Apple hardware are also included. The update can be downloaded for free on the support page of Roadshow.

Szilárd Biró has ported Daniel's Remar platform game RetroBattle. It is a classic platformer done in oldschool NES style, so it features schematic graphics, small sprites, low number of colors and basic animation. Fortunately playability is not lost, however the game is not very easy, especially as it is played with keyboard. The game can be downloaded from our download section.

The Amiga Games List maintained by David 'Daff' Brunet since April 1991 was updated in early 2013 with its 42nd edition. Thus the total reached 11,894 entries as follows:

10 802 Games
912 Extensions or data discs
134 Game/level editors
46 Interpreters

Now, there are 389 native MorphOS games.

Smilla is an application which might prove usefull for people who are in a need for highly upscaled version of a raster image. Used algorithm was developed by Mischa Lusteck. It is most effective for high scaling factors and for line-art/painted images. In current shape it is enough for my personal needs but if i get enough feedback more features might be implemented. Application can be downloaded at: http://kiero.binaryriot.org/SmillaEnlarger.lha

The MorphOS 3.2 SDK is now available. The package comes with updated GG environment, current MorphOS includes, updated documentation, and many minor fixes. Please note that this is a beta release.

Minimum requirements: MorphOS 3.1.

Apart from the installation archive, a package with GG and GCC sources used in the SDK is also available for download.