Airsoft Softwair is happy to annouce a special Easter egg for the Amiga community: Hollywood 4.8 is out now! This update contains mostly bug fixes and one great new feature requested by many people: Hollywood is now able to compile executables for Linux systems! With the ability of compiling for Linux systems Hollywood finally comes full circle because it now supports all major desktop operating systems. All in all, Hollywood can create programs for nine different platforms now: MorphOS, AROS, AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, Windows, Mac OS X (Intel), Mac OS X (PowerPC), and Linux (Intel). A totally unique feature in the Amiga world!

RELEC society in partnership with website http://www.meta morphos.org organizes a competition open to all programmers on the planet.

A development machine for MorphOS is to win: it's a EFIKA 5200B "DELUXE EDITION", a unique prototype proposed by RELEC. The list of elements is given later in this article.

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Antoine Dubourg a.k.a. Tcheko released its latest production : spellchecker.library 1.0

This new library offers spellchecking feature based on a dictionary of words. It uses common and efficient spellchecking algorithms : double metaphone and Levenshtein distance (used in major Office package like OpenOffice, AbiWord...). This first release is aimed mainly at developer as no application currently uses spellchecker.library. 

A set of programs for creating and editing makefiles called MakeTools has been updated to version 1.1. The work focused on the removal of several more or less serious errors earlier version. In addition, using Makemake, you can modify the contents of the file Makemake (argument SET) and read the value (argument GET) from other programs or command line. The archive contains versions for MorphOS and AmigaOS3 is available on the website of the author or from Aminet.

New version of SCANdal - scanner frontend has been released. It could be downloaded from Aminet:
http://aminet.net/driver/other/scandal.lha
This version have many fixes and some other improvements.

The new version 2.3 (2011-March-25) of the IceFileSystem includes the following changes...
 
- Trying to copy files into recycledir manually would raise internal exception and some files still in meta cache could get lost.
- FSConfig now can load/save settings to file and print settings to the shell.
- FSFormat now wipes blocks twice as fast.
- Bug in job.device fixed.
- Added VInfo tool. Shows locks and notifys on icefs volumes.
- Icefs volumes now always contains recycledir and filechangelog, use fsconfig to turn them off if desired.
- A few smaller things here and there.

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Be sure to also test the brand new IceDoctor, a repair / salvage / rescue application for IceFS.

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I've just uploaded a new archive of my latest project:

UberCassette!

It will – one day – do everything to do with dumping cassettes of 8-bit machines, but as it stands V0.02 supports Acorn Electron, BBC, Commodore 64, C16/+4 and VIC-20 tapes. It supports raw TAP files as well as binary T64 files for the Commodore machines, and UEF files for Acorns. Just feed it your WAV file – even copy-protected ones – and it'll give you a nice emulator friendly tape file, ready for Vice or whatever.

Sermonatrix, a new IRC client for MorphOS, gained character sets transcoding feature today. Current implementation is designed for testing. No default setting for charsets can be saved in server configuration yet. This will change once the charsets encoding support is fully tested and reported as stable.

Lua is a lightweight and fast scripting language. It may be used standalone or be embedded into applications. MorphOS port of the language adds to the modularity having the core interpreter and all standard modules implemented as shared system libraries. The port features also LuaX (standalone script executor) and LuaExplorador (MUI based source level debugger). Full developer material included (header files and documentation). Version 0.4 brings io.module, which adds file operations to the language. Unlike straightforward ports, this one interfaces to dos.library directly, bypassing unnecessary layers of unix environment emulation. The package is available in the download section.