The MorphOS version of Encore Games' action shooter title "Fortis" has been updated to version number 1.1.

The full version of the game is available here.

The French website www.meta-morphos.org is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a beta version of Ultimate pack 1.6.0 for MorphOS 2.5. This pack will allow you to quickly and effortlessly obtain a more complete MorphOS environment. Included features are: Mail, chat, calendar, address book, music and video players, drawing software, photo organizer, E-UAE integration in Ambient and GetVideo integration in OWB (via contextual menu), and much more.

Several MorphOS development team members will be present in Essen on Saturday, July 24, 2010. They will demonstrate the latest version of MorphOS on various hardware platforms. The developers will be looking forward to meet all interested visitors.

Link: Amiga Meeting

lzmaLoader 1.2 has been released. lzmaLoader is a simple executable packer for MorphOS. It is mainly targeted for cases where extremely small executable file size is required (scene intros mostly).

Version 1.2 adds a hand optimized 380 byte shared loader which can be used when the compressed binary targets MorphOS 2.5 (or newer) systems.

The following MorphOS related articles have been added to the website of the french magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months :

- Amiga/MorphOS news of may/june 2010.
- Interview with Frederic Boisdron (director of Robootic).
- Review of MorphOS 2.5.
- File : MorphOS beginner's guide (update).
- Tutorial : installation of MorphOS 2.5.
- Tutorial : Rival.
- Tutorial : MorphVectrex.

Rendez-vous on http://obligement.free.fr for this nice reading.
All translations are welcome. Please contact me for more info.

The very first release of a plug-in SDK for the applications Sketch and Scandal has been published.. If you are a developer, you can now create your own effect plug-in  for these two applications. You can download the SDK archive from here. 

Please make sure to read the included documentation / source comments and then compile, compile, compile.

Requirements:
-MorphOS SDK 2 must be installed
-Knowledge about graphics programming
-Free time

We will be looking forward to test your plug-ins!

Fortis game for MorphOS has been finished and released. It is old school shooter wrapped in flashy 3D art and FX. More details about the Fortis for MorphOS, screenshots and video-trailer (see on YouTube or download AVI/XviD) available on Encore Games website.

The MorphOS development team would like to announce that the MorphOS Software Development Kit 2 has left the beta state. All developers who are interested to upgrade their existing MorphOS development infrastructure will need a computer running the recently finished MorphOS 2.5 and at least 300 MB of free disk space.

The latest release of the MorphOS SDK 2 includes the following changes:

• Improved MorphEd compatibility when invzeropage is enabled
• Added minor improvements to the documentation
• Added a convenient update mode to the installer
• Increased the amount of example source code

You can download the MorphOS SDK 2 in our files section.

Back in the days Nuance released a musicdisk-series for classic Amigas called Trilobyte. They released 11 issues, and now after ten years they are back with issue #12!

Download it from morphos-files.net:  click here

The MorphOS development team would like to announce the immediate availability of the MorphOS Software Development Kit 2. This first release is officially in beta state and will be followed up by updates in the near future. Developers who would like to test the software development kit will need a computer running the recently finished MorphOS 2.5 and at least 300 MB of free disk space.

Notable features of the MorphOS SDK 2 are as follows:

• MorphED with MUI-centric quickhelp (shows syntax of MUI methods, MUI special values for an attribute, etc)
• GCC 2.95.3 compiler with AltiVec support and C++ enhancements
• GCC 4.4.4 compiler
• MUI, Reggae and System documentation in text and aguide formats
• Example source code
• Development utilities: logtool and Wipeout
• Complete GeekGadgets environment
• Easy to use installer

You can download the MorphOS SDK 2 in our files section

Gish MorphOS port released.

This is fast port of next multiplatform arcade game. If you want to play it, download MorphOS port from here then go and buy original game from site. Install with using original data files and have fun.

You can find more information from here.

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.5, the fifth new OS version since the debut of MorphOS 2.0 in the same month two years ago. MorphOS 2.5 finally adds the Apple eMac to its list of officially supported platforms. In addition to the extended hardware support, existing users will benefit from various bug fixes and a few new features. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.

We strongly urge owners of eMac computers to carefully read our installation and troubleshoot guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 2.5 is available for download in our files section.

Encore Games is proud to announce the premiere of its new game - FORTIS. The game is based on classical shooter scheme although presented in new 3D environment. Full version of the game should be out some time in May, but you can check the video-trailer today!