Due to technical reasons, the long-running MorphOS Developer Connection website had to be closed. We apologize for any inconveniences this might cause. Please rest assured that most files that could be downloaded from the MDC portal will eventually be moved to the official MorphOS Team website and made available without a mandatory registration.

Future discussions about developing for MorphOS, on the other hand, can be had in the new and improved MorphZone Developer Forums, which complement the established MorphOS mailing list and the #morphos channel on the FreeNode IRC network.

PowerDev #6 was held in Lublin, Poland, on March 28 - 29, 2009. The event featured a series of workshops and presentations about topics such as the multimedia framework Reggae, the music application DigiBooster, the Origyn Web Browser, and Ambient, the MorphOS desktop.

The team of organizers has published the following photo and video galleries:
Photo Gallery‏ - Video Gallery

Visitors of the event have provided the following photos:
Gallery 1 - Gallery 2

Airsoft Softwair is the developer of Hollywood, an extremely flexible and powerful Multimedia Application Layer, which can be used for many different purposes due to the inbuilt script language. Other products belonging to the Hollywood product line are the popular Hollywood Designer, a modern presentation editor, and Malibu, a plugin that allows Hollywood to show Scala presentations.

Airsoft Softwair kindly ask for participation in their poll regarding the future of Hollywood and Hollywood designer, which includes questions about your hardware, software, and desired features. You can access the poll here.

Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has released a new version of Helios, a Firewire stack for MorphOS. You can download the achive here. 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.

After a long period of silent development, a new version of Scalos, an alternative to the Ambient desktop of MorphOS, is now available. In addition to many bugfixes and language packs for French and German, it also includes improvements such as transparent windows or video thumbnails.

Link: Version History
Link: Download

The "Annuaire Amiga & Pegasos Francophone" (French Speaking Users of Amiga & Pegasos Listing), lists french Amiga & Pegasos users but it's also a great communication media for our community. Here is a small calendar of Amiga events that will be held in March and April in France or near :

- 13 to 15 March : Numerica ArtParty #2 (Montb‏liard, 25, France)
- 28 and 29 March : Les AmiG‏teries (Villers-les-Pots, 21, France)
- 28 and 29 March : Niffo's Bouffe (Nantes, 44)
- 4 April, 14h-17h : AMF's reunion (Lausanne, Suisse)
- 18 April : Triple A's AmigaBouffe (Cl‏rieux, 26, France)
- 18 and 19 April : AC 2009 (Congis-sur-Th‏rouanne, 77, France

The Amiga Future issue 77 (March/April 2009) has been released today, which includes a review of MorphOS 2.2. All preorders and subscriptions will be shipped today.

The German issues 47 of Amiga Future are out of stock. You can read the magazines (amongst many other issues) online at http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php‏mode=cat&cat=10 .

We are looking for translators fluent in reading/writing German and English for Amiga Future magazine.‏ Please contact us via mail at: Andreas@amigafuture.de

Airsoft Softwair are proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4: VideoUp. This is a major update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 3. The biggest new feature is that Hollywood can now export AVI videos. Now MorphOS users can for the first time create high quality video presentations with only a few mouse clicks - on their MorphOS system with Hollywood.

After several months of work, your distributor of Amiga Software & Hardware RELEC is pleased to announce the opening of its new web showcase, always at the same address: http://www.relec.ch

Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has updated his MorphOS port of the Origyn Web Browser. This web browser is based on the powerful WebKit engine which is also used by Apple's Safari or Google's Chrome.

Version 1.1 is available in three editions, namely the full browser (owb-morphos-1.1.lha), a version without SVG support (owb-morphos-1.1-nosvg.lha) and "OWB Lite" which excludes support for SVG and for codepages other than UTF-8 and Latin-1. The two extra editions are primarily intented to be used on systems that feature only low amounts of memory (Efika).

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 full browser requires about 5MB of disk space and at least 35MB of free system memory. (The No-SVG and Lite editions of OWB may require different amounts of disk space and system memory.)

A preview and excerpts from Amiga Future Issue 77 (March/April 2009) are now available on the magazine's website. This issue includes a review of MorphOS 2.2.

APC&TCP is looking for people who are willing test alpha releases of Digibooster Professional 3.

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