The real time strategy game Homeworld have won the AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2008. It precede Jagged Alliance 2 and Command And Conquer : Red Alert.

All results can be seen here : http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2008.php

We have worked on the extension of the Amiga Future database for the past months.
By now it contains about 3000 articles for online reading.

This week we added some workshops and an up-to-date article about astronomy photography by Mirko Strau‏.

http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php‏mode=article&k=3168

To extend the database even further we look for English and German articles. There were lots of websites offering reviews and workshops. Many of them diappeared unfortunately together with their valuable content. We would like to offer this kind of information online again.

Have you made a homepage with such articles which isn't online anymore‏ Or did you write something yourself‏ Then please contact us at the editorial office.

http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php
http://www.amigafuture.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de

Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has successfully ported the Origyn Web Browser to MorphOS after about three weeks of work. This web browser is based on the powerful WebKit engine which is also used by Apple's Safari or Google's Chrome.


System requirements:‏
MorphOS 2.x is strongly recommended but it can still work on a 1.4.x setup if a recent MUI snapshot (2007) is installed. The browser requires about 4MB of disk space and at least 35MB of free system memory. If you are an Efika user and you are in need of a stripped down version, please contact the author. (He might disable SVG support for you.)

The highlights of Fabien's implementation are as follows:

• Based on GaleKid 1.0 OWB Branch (December 2008)
• Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL, ...
• Antialiased fonts and kerning, font families and support for international charsets
• MUI Interface
• Cairo technology !!1
• Multiple tabs and windows
• Download manager
• Bookmarks
• Fastlinks
• Context menus
• Copy/Cut/Paste
• Rexx port (openurl support)
• No paypal donation needed

Download it here.

Each year you can vote for the best AmigaOS/MorphOS game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2008 !

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/award2008.php

The final results will be published wednesday 4th February.

Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has released a first version of Helios, a Firewire stack for MorphOS. You can download the achive at the Aminet website. The archive also includes SDK files for third-party developers who are interested to create applications that utilize the Helios library.

Please click on "Read More" for additional details.

The development of the new DBPro3 is slowly but steadily taking shape.

Our first goal is and was to code the whole program completly new to get more structure in order to improve and be more efficient.

Furthermore, the handling is the same as in DBPro2.x. The current development status is the internal version Alpha 17th.

In the next 3-4 months, we will give you a very detailed status update and we hope to release a beta-demoversion. We want to emphasize again, that can not give you more further details. We do not want to pledge that we will not keep that promise.

http://www.digiboosterpro.de

The "Amiga Games List" (http://obligement.free.fr/articles/listejeuxamiga.php), maintained by David Brunet since april 1991 has been updated in its 38th edition. About 850 new entries have been added, the total now reach 13528 entries distributed as follows :

- 12416 games.
- 953 datas.
- 125 gamesor levels editors.
- 34 interpreters.

There are <span style="font-weight: bold;">296 MorphOS native games</span>.

First release in 2009 is out!

Content:
Amitopia TV News
3D games on Amiga
VLC review (MorphOS)
TvPaint guide part 2

The MorphOS development team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.


As the first release of 2009, we have prepared an update pack for the now out-of-date MorphOS 1.4.x which includes various minor improvements. Most notably, the archive includes several libraries that are required to stay compatible with new software releases, such as future Ambient versions and applications relying on PowerSDL, as many developers continue to migrate to MorphOS 2.x.

The Update Pack for MorphOS 1.4.x is available for download in our files section. To install the update, unpack the archive and copy all files to your system partition. Please take special note that this update is not intented to be installed on MorphOS 2.x or higher.

Tthe French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) published various new articles in the past two months. For a full list, please click "Read More" and visit their website.