The following articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months...

The website www.meta-morphos.org is pleased to annonce avaibility of the pack Ultimate 1.6.4 for MorphOS 2.7. Thanks you for reading 'Readme' file in the archive before installing the pack.

Download Installpack.lha (236 Kb).

Changes list is available in the rest of this article. I want to thank everyone who spun me a helping hand to improve this package and of course all developpers of software available in this pack

After a long period of closed testing the DigiBooster 3 music tracker enters the public beta stage. The main goal of public betatesting is to check program core stability and performance on different operating systems and hardware configurations. Demo versions of DigiBooster 3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS are available for download on the official DigiBooster website. Please note that this is not a release candidate. Many important features still wait to be implemented. It is highly recommended to read a "readme" file after installation.

On February 9th 2011, the magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2010. This represents the best Amiga games voted by amigans on all Amiga platforms.

For MorphOS

1. Fortis (Encore Games)
2. Aquaria (Bit Blot)
3. UFO Alien Invasion (UFO Alien Invasion Team)

More information on : http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2010.php

I am releasing a "full preview" of the next version of the PortablE programming language. It is now aimed at beginners & those new to the E language. Previous releases of PortablE were aimed at existing AmigaE users, and those familiar with AmigaOS programming. But after more than a year of development, PortablE is much easier for beginners to pick-up & play with...

Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2010 ! To vote for the best AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS or AROS games, you can rate them at this page :

http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2010.php

This year there will be no "global" winner but a winner by systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS). The final results will be published February 9, 2011.

After almost 3 years of development, Airsoft Softwair is very proud to announce the immediate availability of the long awaited third incarnation of our famous Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer 3.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications; for example presentations, slide shows, simple games, and programs. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: MorphOS, AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, AROS (x86), Mac OS X (PPC), Mac OS X (x86), WarpOS, Windows (x86). This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world.

The Amiga Games List maintained by David "Daff" Brunet since April 1991 was updated in early 2011 with its 40th edition. The total reached 11,476 entries as follows: 10410 games, 898 extensions or data discs, 129 game/level editors39 interpreters.

There are now 338 MorphOS native games.

A small update for the audio harddisk recording application Audio Evolution 4 is available now.

Changes are:
* Removed some debug statement when opening a pop-up menu
* The Online Help menu now opens the AE4 manual PDF
* Removed the text file CopyFontsAndLibsFirst since MorphOS seems to be happy about fonts and libs in the application's directory without any assign needed!

All Amiga LhA versions have a bug that results in years past 2010 to be recorded as 1980. MorphOS version is affected as well. The new MorphOS LhA 2.7.10 fixes the problem. The new LhA command can be downloaded from MorphOS Downloads. It is highly recommended to install this quick fix.