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.

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.2. The following (and more) changes have been made over version 2.1:

• added "Project"-entry in objectlist to set the overall size of a drawing
• new tab "Position&Size" to manual edit objects.

Available via Grunch, or directly at:
http://www.steamdraw.homepage.t-online.de/SteamDraw.lha

This is a quick update to eGame, to fix problems that some users were having. It also looks a lot nicer. 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. Read more for changes.

Harry "Piru" Sintonen provided information regarding the status of the MorphOS port for Apple's PowerMac G5:

Everything is progressing nicely. Bigfoot also did some preliminary benchmarking using the same LAME (13 seconds) and MPlayer (49 seconds) benchmarks as used here. (This is with the 2.0 GHz G5.)

Screenshot: http://bigfoot.morphos-team.net/test/another-g5-monitorshot.jpeg

Merry XMAS everyone.

OWB 1.18 has been released.

Download it from the usual location at:
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.18.lha
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.18-nosvg.lha

To start some advertising for the newly created "Official MorphOS Community on Google+", MorphOS-Team is doing a lottery offering three limited edition MorphOS-CD-Boxes as "Google+ Limited Edition". Everyone who is participating until 24th of January and joins one of the MorphOS community streams is able to win one of those. Members of the MorphOS Team can also contribute to the streams, but are not entitled to participate in the lottery. The winners are announced on 25th of January.

MorphOS community on Google+

Frank Mariak was at Pianeta Amiga with MorphOS on an ACube Sam460 and Francois Revol was also there with his early efforts of porting Haiku to the same platform.

Apparently, this can be queried here - projectnaomo@morphos-team.net
Other resources: ACube@facebook - HaikuOS@Pianeta

A new update for Reggae multimedia framework is available via Grunch and in MorphZone downloads section. Key features are:

• the first image encoder (using Reggae media saver API) for IFF DEEP format, written by Michał Żukowski,
• Czech, French, German, Polish and Spanish locale for GUI of audio encoders and multimedia.class
• improvements in audio.output class.

As usual there are also small bugfixes, see the changelog for details. The update is selfcontained, may be installed over any previous 3.1.x update or clean MorphOS 3.1.