On his personal blog, Johannes "Yasu" Genberg has shared his experiences from a recent user meeting in Japan and last weekend´s Amiga30 event in Neuss, Germany. His blog post is well worth the read.

Link: https://morphosuser.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/amiga30-at-neuss-and-commodore-fan-club-japan/

On Saturday, October 10, 2015, you will have the opportunity to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Amiga and meet some members of the MorphOS Team in Neuss near Düsseldorf.

Up to 500 participants are expected making this event one of the biggest Amiga meetings of the decade.

Other flavours of our favorite computing platform will be present at this event as well: OS4, AROS, Classic and even emulation will be shown providing a unique occasion to see all of them in action at once.

The MorphOS Team will also have a stand where the X5000 and Sam460 will be exhibited running MorphOS among other supported systems, offering a rare opportunity to witness all the latest features of the forthcoming MorphOS 3.10 before its release...

You will find more information about the event here: http://www.amiga30.de

Airsoft Softwair - the hardest work men in code business - are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: The HTTP Streamer. This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to open files stored on HTTP servers as if they were local files. Furthermore, the plugin also supports streaming of audio and video files via HTTP if the AVCodec plugin is installed. This finally makes it possible to do video and audio streaming with Hollywood which opens up a whole new range of possibilities for developers! Once this plugin has been activated, all Hollywood functions that deal with files will "automagically" be able to open files from HTTP sources as if they were stored on a local drive. It just doesn't get any more convenient!

The HTTP Streamer uses a sophisticated multi-threaded design for highly efficient HTTP streaming. Each HTTP connection is managed by a dedicated thread for optimal performance. This means that even when dealing with slower connections, Hollywood itself will never become sluggish or anything as all HTTP I/O runs on dedicated threads.

The HTTP Streamer is the second plugin to bear the Powered by Hollywood 6.0 seal of quality as it utilizes the new file adapter plugin interface and the streaming APIs introduced with Hollywood 6.0. The plugin will not work with older versions of Hollywood. That's why we here at Airsoft Softwair say: Life starts at 6.0. The HTTP Streamer is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (i386), Windows, Mac OS X (PowerPC and i386), Linux (PowerPC, i386, ARM) and Android are provided.

Please note that video and audio streaming requires at least version 1.3 of the AVCodec plugin.

This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.

Finnish Amiga Users Group holds its 8th Saku event in Oulu, Finland on Saturday, September 26th. The event will present a good variety of machines from the Amiga's 30 years old history, from the original Amiga 1000 to the latest AmigaOne X1000.

Visitors can also use several MorphOS systems from laptops to a G5 machine and there will be a MorphOS presentation on a big screen.

Finnish Amiga retailer Gentle Eye, computing culture magazine Skrolli, and Effi ry are also present with their products.

Admittance is free of charge and refreshments will be available. Saku 2015 will start at 14:00 on September 26th at Oulun Tetra ground floor conference room at Mäkelininkatu 31.

Please visit the users group's website at http://saku.bbs.fi for more information.

Welcome!

The WArMUp association launches a big raffle to win lots of prizes:

- 1.7 Ghz PowerMac licensed;
- Mac mini 1.5 GHz licensed;
- more prizes are being studied as games, software, t-shirts, pens, stickers, etc...

The raffle will take place during the general assembly of the association, Sunday, November 15th, 2015 at Alchimie 0xb.

PastePass is a simple password manager featuring a cryped database and the abilty to fill in username + password at the stroke of a simple shortcut.

Included is PassTool to crypt the provided password useing the name given during MorphOS regristration.

Download with Grunch or directly at:

http://www.steamdraw.homepage.t-online.de/PastePass.lha

New in this version:

- load and save KeyPassX compatible XML files
- basic grouping of entries
- a default user can be selected
- spanish and french locales included

Chaos Engine inspired game Tower 57 that's currently on kickstarter has recently announced stretch goals for AmigaOS4 & MorphOS ports at 1000 euros over the original goal.

Fabien Coeurjoly has released version 1.1 of his MPlayer port, which was updated to r37401 and a recent ffmpeg.

Download: http://fabportnawak.free.fr/mplayer/MPlayer-1.1-svn-2015.05.21.lha

Update: The project has been successfully funded.

This project aims to add a virtual "Trashcan" to the Ambient desktop environment that behaves similarly to the well-known recycle bin in Windows or trashcan in MacOS.

The specific goals are as follows:

1. Add Trash functionality alongside Delete to Ambient's menus, etc (or make delete take an optional parameter controlling what happens with the file)
2. The same functionality would be exposed to applications via the wblib
3. The Trashcan functionality would create a .trash (or so) directory on each volume when moving files to trash. That means any (writable and local) volume would support the trashcan functionality, no matter what filesystem the volume is formatted with. No files would ever be copied between volumes.
4. All trashed files would be viewable in a single place, in a virtual Trashcan folder showing trashed files from all mounted volumes.
5. Files could be automatically restored to their original locations.

Point 1 implies this will be entirely optional and likely disabled by default.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Link: http://power2people.org/projects/ambient-trashcan/

Available for download the new version of V.A.M.P. ready to use the new Hollywood™ plugins, V.A.M.P. is a multiplayer and viewer made with Hollywood™ this new version has this new improvements:

1. Fixed some bugs.
2. Added of beta option to forward or rewind the movie or song (with mouse wheel) with step time of 1-10-30 seconds or 1 minute, touching the 1-4 number keys.

Visit the official site:
www.morguesoft.eu

The new version availables for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, Windows and applet format to use with the Hollywood Player™.

The silly season just got serious! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the ultimate 200+ binaries Super Summer Plugin Bash 2015! This is the biggest plugin update in the history of Hollywood! A grand total of 17 plugins have been updated and are now available in brand new versions. Because Hollywood supports so many different platforms, updating 17 plugins means that almost 250 binaries had to be updated, altogether these are over 50 megabytes of new plugin magic! All Raspberry Pi fans will be very happy to hear that all plugins are available in a Linux ARM flavour now too. Linux ARM support was introduced in Hollywood 6.0.

XAMOS author Stephen Harvey-Brooks, aka Mequa, passed away on July 3rd due to complications during an operation to change a pacemaker.

Association WArMUp is pround to offer you the Chrysalis pack 3.9.1 for MorphOS 3.9.

This pack allows you to quickly obtain a complete environment preconfigured containing a selection of software, games and emulators for MorphOS.

This pack is not official, it must installed just after clean installation MorphOS 3.9 (registered or not). To install the package, simply mount the ISO image, open "Chrysalis" volume and click on the "Install Pack Chrysalis 3.9.1" icon.

The ISO image is freely downloadable from the following link:

www.warmup-asso.org/download/pack/chrysalis.iso (759 959 552 octets).

The list of changes is available at the follow of this article.

Feel free to improve this pack by providing software, translation, idea, etc ...
Feel free also to support developers of MorphOS software and the MorphOS Team so that adventure continues.
Thanks so much to all developers and people who participate directly or indirectly to the improvement of this pack.

Hello - KeHo Software has included a new modul in the Hollywood LCARS SmartHome System.
Voice Commands will now be recognized and shown with ELEKTRA.

lcars_elektra.jpg

Also we have already published first chapter of building a smarthome system on your own. On the Webpage http://www.keho-software.com/smarthome.html you can see what is possible up to now.

On page http://www.keho-software.com/arduino_kurs_1.html you can learn how to build the gateway and steer 3 Led's with a Hollywood 6.0 applet running on your morphos system and computer.

In August we will present chapter 2 which will enable you to switch 433Mhz outlets with your morphos system and computer. Learn to build your own secure smarthome.

So stay tuned ...

The English and German issue 115 (July/August 2015) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from the editorial office of Amiga Future, and the other Amiga dealers that stock the magazine.

Mag Content:

Review Wings Battlefield
Review MorphOS 3.9
Workshop ArtEffect

and so much more ... if you haven't already, get your collectable copy ordered today