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 magazine Obligement published an interview with Mark Olsen, member of the MorphOS development team. Mark is perhaps best known for his Quake 3 port, 3D drivers work and recently the port of MorphOS on Mac mini G4.

The interview is available here: http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwolsen_en.php
A French translation can be found here: http://obligement.free.fr/articles/itwolsen.php

OnyxSoft releases four updates of software!

Annotate, WiiLoader, GummiSurf and ZoomIT


Updated programs:

Annotate v2.6.4 - (OS3,OS4,MOS) A very comprehensive text editor with a lot of functions. Ported to AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS! Added a Find next change/Find previous change function to the Search menu. Fixed copying of a line to the find or replace field with a vertical selection. And other minor fixing..

WiiLoader v1.2 - (MOS,OS4) WiiLoader is a utility to load .DOL and .ELF-files over network to the Homebrew Channel. Now works with HBC 1.05 and later. AppIcon / AppWindow functionality (drag'n'dropable). Made the program singletasking to be able to "wake it" if iconified by start it twice. New icons made by Martin 'Mason' Merz added.

GummiSurf v1.4 - (MOS,OS4) GummiSurf is a companion tool for the download managers like Charon, and built-in managers in IBrowse, Voyager and AWeb. Added AmigaOS3 binaries. Support for OWB (MorphOS) and NetSurf (OS4). Changed the default URL to a working one =)

ZoomIT v1.1 - (MOS,AROS,OS3,OS4) Magnifying glass program using MUI. Fixed the borderless window function. Now includes locale support (and a swedish catalog). Added Crosshair option. Added Mouse coordinate and RGB-Value options. Borderless windows are now also draggable by simply pressing anywhere on them.

If you know a bug or have a suggestion, please don't hesitate to drop us an e-mail

Emerald Games have backported HyperCannon 1.0 from the iPhone to MorphOS. According to the developer, it runs much smoother thanks to the included TinyGL support.

Features:

• 3D rendered visuals
• many levels of gameplay
• fully animated graphics
• responsive touch controls
• huge number of onscreen objects
• awesome weapons and powerups
• arcade and survival modes
• massive end of level bosses
• highscore table
• also available for iPhone + iPodTouch

Requirements: Pegasos, Efika or Mac Mini system with 3D graphics hardware that is supported by TinyGL. Playing via gamepad (USB or gameport)‏ is recommended. In terms of software, you need either MorphOS 1.4 or 2.x and lowlevel.library. AHI is used for sound output. If you experience problems, try increasing the number of sound channels (to at least 10).

Amitopia TV is once again back with another show for you. It contains mixed content. A highlight of this month's episode is a short MorphOS presentation held by Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen at the Amiga Meeting event in Bad Bramstedt.

Download it here:
Amitopia TV 23rd of October<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(720x576 - Format: MP4 - Size: 284MB)

Thorsten Mampel submitted the following report to amiga-news.de. It contains information about upcoming MorphOS features and new third-party software developments.