The Aminet team contacted Paolo "The Alien" Cattani and were granted the permission to host and redistribute the MorphOS version of Virtual Grand Prix 2.

If you enjoy this game, please consider making a Paypal donation to: donations@virtualgrandprix2.com

When discussing the Aminet upload with the Aminet team, Mr. Cattani pointed out that even a MorphOS port of VGP3 might be considered, but that he's not promising anything and that "there are some technical issues about that".

For high resolution textures that significantly improve the looks of Virtual Grand Prix 2, have a look at Jason Frabotta's VGPHD project: http://www.siniscope.com/vgphd/

Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The first public beta release of AmiTwitter is available for immediate download here:

AmiTwitter SourceForge Download

<span style="font-weight: bold;">WAManager:</span>
WAManager is an application to help you manage Picasa Web Albums. The goal is to provide image upload, download, modification and synchronization functionality. Read more for details and screenshot

<span style="font-weight: bold;">ShowGirls:</span>
Version 1.2, besided WAManager integration, includes minor bugfix in time rendering for thumbnails, batch converter functionality extension (can process only selected images from given album).

Fabien Coeurjoly has just released version 1.6.1 of his port of the Origyn Web Browser which now includes a very powerful web profiling and debugging tool. The included changes are as follows:

1. Enabled WebInspector (Firebug-like). WebInspector allows browsing resources/scripts, profiling, debugging... It can be enabled with: "setenv OWB_ENABLE_INSPECTOR 1". When enabled, a new "inspect element" entry is added to webview contextmenus that opens the tool. Here's what it looks like: http://fabportnawak.free.fr/inspector.png

2. Avoid conflicts between regular context menus and javascript contextmenus.
3. Updated russian, swedish and czech locales.
4. Added a lame workaround in javascript interpreter that caused regressions in google maps.
5. Fixed a possible crash with priority popups in MLdonkey HTML interface.

 

Download Links: OWB v1.6.1 Full Version - Lite Edition Without SVG Support

Pawel Stefanski released version 2.40 of his HTML gallery generator Gallerius. The new version includes the following changes:
- support for ShowGirls galleries
- new logo
- option to abort the html generation process
- 2 new modes added for aspect ratio picture scaling (by width and by height)
- fixed reported bugs.

You can download Gallerius from here

Requirements: MorphOS 2.x

I'm happy to present version 1.1 of an image manipulation, and starting from this version, also image cataloging application, ShowGirls. Version 1.1 among many other changes, brings one substantial improvement. Image cataloging functionality. It allows to group images in 'virtual' catalogs (groups and albums), commenting, searching of photos in different physical disc location. Read more for other changes.

Chicago, Illinois December 12th, 2009 -- Every Christmas DiscreetFX enjoys giving away lots of prizes to the MorphOS Community. This Christmas is the best giveaway yet. We will be giving out the following items to randomly select winners that contact our sales department requesting to be in the contest via the link below

Fabien Coeurjoly has just released version 1.6 of his port of OWB. He has also released the first public version of a compatible Flash plug-in (swfdec).

Translators: Please update your translations, the developer will supply the locale archive separately.

Note: There's a known regression since r1106 (or so): maps.google.* is slightly broken (some options / buttons don't have any effect). It is a generic issue in WebKit when JIT is disabled, and it was reported to their bugtracker. Fabien will provide a new version when this is fixed.

 

Download Links: OWB v1.6 Full Version - Lite Edition Without SVG Support - Flash Plug In

OnyxSoft released an update for Annotate!

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Annotate v2.7 </span>- (OS3,OS4,MOS,AROS) A very comprehensive text editor with a lot of functions such as syntax hignlighting. Annotate can now be compiled for MUI instead of ReAction which made an AROS port possible! And it works better on MorphOS and OS3 too.
Added simple project support to be able to save the state of all opened files. It is now possible to drop icons on Ann's windows. And other fixes and improvements. Note: Annotate is also available as an auto-update if you prefer that feature :)<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>

jPV / RNO has written a very extensive review of MorphOS 2.x. that is not only informative, but also includes a series of five videos demonstrating the operating system on a Mac Mini G4. For the full review, please visit the following link:

http://jpv.wmhost.com/morphos2_review/

Videos: Performance on a Mac Mini - Ambient Desktop - Screen Bar Modules - Blankers - Window Skins