The V.A.M.P. video player is available for download on www.vamp.es. This multimedia player is programmed with Hollywood and it is prtially based on Andreas Falkenhahn's example source codes of VideoPlayer and AnimPlayer. This little tool has been made to demostrate the multimedia features of this programming language it is not aimed at sustituting other videoplayers.

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.1. The following (and more) changes have been made over version 2.0:

• use of cairo as shared library instead of linklib
• removal of fill-option "Gradient", cairo seems to have some issues with keeping track of used memory here
• fill-option "Picture" is now rotated when it's object is
• removed some serious bugs,
• SteamDraw runs now again in only 1 task but extra meassures to minimize CPU-load and lagging are still included.

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

MorphOS.pl in co-operation with Mark 'BigFoot' Olsen is pleased to announce that bounty for MorphOS port to a PowerMac G5 has been opened. Please read more for bounty details.

The following MorphOS related articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months :

- September/October 2012 news.
- News: insights about the Amiga in 2012.
- Report: Amigâteries 2011.
- Interview with Yannick Buchy (webmaster of Meta-MorphOS.org).
- Review of Hurrican.
- Hardware: reflash of graphic cards in order to you it on Mac/MorphOS (update).
- Tutorial: utilisation of GMail with SimpleMail and YAM (update).

The English and German issue 99 (November/December 2012) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future, and the other Amiga dealers that stock the magazine. Mag Content:

Sqrxz
Agent Lux
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5
Zormanita

and so much more ...

www.meta-morphos.org is pleased to offer the Ultimate pack 3.1.1 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 Pack Ultimate" icon.

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

Reggae media processing framework has been updated to version 3.1.5. A new scheme of versioning is synchronized with MorphOS versions, it means 3.1.x Reggae is an update for MorphOS 3.1. Grunch users have already received this update incrementally, now it is also available in the download section of the site, as a standalone archive with Installer script. The update mostly contains new and updated classes resulting from the completed bounty for media writing. As usual there are also numerous bugfixes. All changes are listed in a changelog contained in the archive. Developer documentation and SDK include files have been updated too, and are installed automatically if SDK installation is detected.

The full colour preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 99 (November/December 2012) are now available online. Highlights in this issue are: Classic Computiung, Agent Lux, AmiSystemRestore and Sqrxz. Of course there's so MUCH more actually in the magazine. Needless to say you'll find some FULL versions of software (example Foundation DC), often what was commercially available, as well as the PD software on the cover CD. A detailed description of content and excerpts can be found at: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=4297

A new updated OpenBOR (a free engine for one on one fight games) is available to download with new features and bugfixes. Download it from our download section: OpenBOR v3 Relase 3711.

MomosIRC is an IRC client for MorphOS. It is a new application, written from scratch, having MUI user interface. Due to incoming another break in the joyful creativity, the author decided to share the beta with users as is (with debug output turned on...). Not all features are implemented yet, but program is stable, and quite usable.