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.

Taran im Abenteuerland is an old adventure game (German language) for the Amiga (68k) and PC. Achim Kern of KeHo Software is now using Hollywood5 for the game, and now there is also an AmigaOS4 and today also a MorphOS version available. In the game you are Taran and you have to defeat the dark forces and help your king to regain his kingdom. If you like the game - please make a paypal donation on his homepage.

More infos can found at: http://www.keho-software.com/taran_hollywood.html

This is it! Airsoft Softwair has saved their greatest firework for New Year's Day! MUI Royale is a plugin for Hollywood that finally allows you to easily create MUI GUIs with Hollywood. MUI Royale supports over 40 MUI classes including popular third-party classes like TextEditor.mcc and TheBar.mcc. Creating and managing menustrips is also fully supported. The plugin sets new standards concerning the ease of use because the GUI layout can be conveniently defined using an XML file that is converted into a MUI GUI by MUI Royale on the fly. GUI design has never been so easy! Of course, new features of MUI 3.9 (AmigaOS 4) and MUI 4.0 (MorphOS) are also supported.