Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2009 !

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/award2009.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 Febrary 15, 2010.

Amiga-Look.org recreated from the scratch. We changed the CMS to Drupal and we now made a totally new website. We moved to a faster web server.

For those who don't know anything about amiga-look.org, it is a website for the AmigaOS, MorphOS and Aros artworks that a lot of people create. The main idea is to gather all this content into one web site, so that it could be really easy for someone to find something that he needs. Inside amiga-look.org you will find screenshots, icons, themes and many other things that you would like to use and make your workbench look better.

Also, everyone can make his own account and upload his own artworks. And we can support him with our voting system, and say how much we like it with comments.

So come on you guys, upload your icons, wallpapers, themes and lets make a websites that has them all gathered.

www.amiga-look.org

A test version of Blender 2.50 alpha0 for MorphOS is now available for download:
http://www.yomgui.fr/blender/blender-2.5alpha0-test-mos.lha

The required installation procedure is fortunately quite simple. It is a standalone archive. You just need to uncompress the content to your harddisk and run the application.

Do not hesitate to try it out, experiment and please provide feedback to the developer.

The "Amiga Games List" ( http://obligement.free.fr/articles/listejeuxamiga.php ), maintained by David Brunet since april 1991 has been updated in its 39th edition. The total now reach 11192 entries distributed as follows: 10143 games | 887 data disks or extensions | 127 games or level editors | 35 interpreters.

There are now <span style="font-style: italic;">307 native MorphOS</span> games. This 39th edition has declined since the vast majority of interpreted games (platform independent games playable via an interpreter) were removed in order to keep only pure "Amiga" games. In addition, the games created in 2009 have been added. The list recognize now also the "Creative Commons" license and the "AmiBlitz" programming language.

Version 2.0 of Titler has arrived. This powerful animation creator in alpha state but is free and can produce professional high-quality animations for titling, video editing and presentations. It has been used extensively to produce animations for the AmitopiaTV show.

This new version has great new features such as:
- animation functionality
- ability to embed flat 2D images in 3d scenes
- loading images by datatype and reggae
- save animations in formats supported by mencoder
- animated textures (avcodec)
- and more (check manual for details)

Links: Demo Video<span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span>Screenshot 1 - Screenshot2 <span style="font-weight: bold;">- </span>Application Download<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>

Airsoft Softwair are very proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4.5 (Codename: Snowflake). This is a huge update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 4.0. In this update we paid special attention to all the wishes that reached us from the ever growing Hollywood community. We carefully listened to all these requests and tried to realize as many wishes as possible.

Among the countless new features in Hollywood 4.5 is the ability to open multiple windows with Hollywood (scripts are no longer limited to a single window!), fonts can be embedded into executables (it's no longer necessary to install them first), windows can use alpha channel transparency, hardware accelerated transition effects (only on AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 2), full clipboard support, load and save GIF animations, save AVI videos, drag' n' drop support, and much much more.

Various articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months. The most notable ones include a tutorial on how to enhance your Mac Mini experience in general and how to boot MorphOS from a USB drive on a Mac Mini G4.

Stable release of SCANdal (scanner frontend) 1.3 is now available.

What's new:
- Autocrop (works best with LineArt mode)
- Autoconnect tooltype, Connect button
- TIFF and PDF saver
- Fixed JPEG saver
- Sketch plugins support (NOTE: do not use plugins from MorphOS 2.4, latest plugins are included in SCANdal archive, plugins don't work with 1.4.5)
- Fixed Mode list (for gt68xx d river)
- Fixed DPI Radio (for gt68xx driver)
- Settings window
- Autoincrement filenames

You can download it at http://brain.umcs.lublin.pl/~rzookol/download/scandal.lha .

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