The Amiga Club Hamburg has set up a web camera and provides a live feed from the Amiga Meeting Nord 2009 in Bad Bramstedt. The event will be open to visitors until Sunday.

Link: http://www.amile.de/amigaclubhamburg/c/club/meeting/webcam/index.html

Stefan Kleinheinrich (Kronos) has posted two photos made at the event on late Friday evening. They show an eMac running a development version of MorphOS and a Mac mini that features a subtle, but interesting case modification.

Link: http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php‏p=290674#post290674

Following the release of MorphOS 2.4 for the Mac Mini, I have prepared a small PDF explaining how to install MorphOS along with Mac OS X on the Mac Mini on the same hard drive.

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Update:</span> A new version of the document has been published which includes additional information.</span>

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.4, the first ever public version to install on Mac mini G4 machines. 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 Mac mini G4 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 2.4 is available for download in our files section.

In related news, MorphOS 2.4 will be demonstrated at the upcoming Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt. Interested users will be able to pay and register MorphOS at the event.

Keymap.sbar (Screenshot) is a plugin for the screen titlebar and allows comfortable switching between multiple keymaps without having to open MorphOS' System Preferences each time.

Features

• Support for MorphOS and legacy (AmigaOS 3.1) keymaps
  
• A configurable keymap selection
  
• Beautiful hand-pixeled images in two sizes (automatically chosen depending on screen titlebar height) for each known MorphOS and legacy keymap
  
• Hotkeys for opening the quick selection menu and for cycling between activated keymaps
  
• Quick launching of Keystroke for character overview and selection
  
• Fully localized.
  

OSNews.com reviewed MorphOS 2 on EFIKA. The full review can be found on their site: http://www.osnews.com/story/22315/MorphOS_2_3_EFIKA

For Immediate Release

Chicago, Illinois ‏ September 24th, 2009

While we can't discount the current price of Aladdin 4D ($99) we do have an interesting offer for you. Purchase the current version of Aladdin 4D 5.0 from now until October 5th, 2009 and get a free upgrade to Aladdin 4D 6.0 on the platform of your choice when it ships. For example MorphOS 2.x. Aladdin 4D 5.0 will be available as a instant download with PDF manual once you purchase it.

DigiBooster 3 development has been resumed after a vacation break. While it has been demonstrated that the program skeleton is working on both MorphOS and AmigaOS 4, and the player engine, the heart of any music tracker, was mature enough to release it inside DigiRoller, there are still substantial features missing...

The first one of them just implemented is instrument loading...

New version of SCANdal 1.2 (Betascan frontend) for MorphOS has been released.
Version for other systems will be released in a few days.

Download: http://aminet.net/driver/other/scandal.lha
SCANdal in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch‏v=aIiIEwp_RVM

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 :

- Amiga/MorphOS news of july/august 2009.
- News‏: update on AROS.
- Interview with Hugues Nouvel (Amiga developer Amiga, organizator of Amiga parties).
- Interview with Wayne Hunt (from Amiga.org).
- ...

NoWinED is a MUI-based TextEditor that can handle more files simultaneously,
using different "pages" for each file.[...]
NoWinED has born to be a portable MUI program, and in fact it exists for every
Amiga flavour (OS3.x, OS4, MorphOS, AROS).

You find it on aminet or on its homepage:

http://shinkuro.altervista.org/amiga/software/nowined.htm

CPUGauge is a screenbar plugin for MorphOS and displays the current CPU load as a smooth sliding gauge in the screen title.

Requirements: MorphOS 2.0 or higher
Changes for V1.3:

- Now uses SA_ScreenbarSignal for its timer in order to prevent the Public Screen Manager task running out of signals due to CPUGauge running on too many screens.
- Fixed a bug that made CPUGauge crash when the timer was not created (Fabien Coeurjoly).
- Small adjustment to localisation: Changed "Opacity" to "Visibility" and "Undurchsichtigkeit" to "Sichtbarkeit" in the german catalog.

Download CPUGauge V1.3 HERE

MouseEyes are watching you prevaricate. AmigaZeux present at least someone to watch over you lonely people out there. With this harmless looking screenbar plugin that displays fun, user-configurable eyes that apparently look at and follow the mouse pointer no matter where it goes. But through this we can actually spy into your room, through your computer screen, and give details of your underwear to Genesi's guerilla marketing arm. This is secret information and you users won't know about it.



Requirements: MorphOS 2.0 or higher


Download MouseEyes V1.0 HERE

Chicago, Illinois ‏ August 25th, 2009
For Immediate Release

Programmers have requested more complete and example code from Open Video Toaster. This has always been available via a $9.95 CD-ROM that was shipped by snail mail. Coders wanted something faster so in an effort to appease their instant gratification request DiscreetFX has now made this CD-ROM available via a instant down-loadable ISO image. The cost still remains $9.95 since this is a big file and our server is going to take a hit with lots of downloads. This change in policy should get the complete Amiga Video Toaster Flyer source to many more coders especially overseas programmers that never really got to enjoy the Video Toaster on their Amiga's.

The magazine Obligement have published a review of the new released version 2.3 of MorphOS.

The article in french : http://obligement.free.fr/articles/morphos23.php
The article in english (automatic translation) : http://translate.google.fr/translate‏u=http%3A%2F%2Fobligement.free.fr%2Farticles%2Fmorphos23.php&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8