This sbar module allows you to use the google translator feature from your screenbar: Just click on the Google-Translator symbol in the screenbar, a window will be opened where you can write the word or sentence you want to translate into the first string gadget. The text will be instantly translated while you are typing!

There are also two custom popup gadgets to choose the source and translated language. Also, Its now possible to open the translator window by pressing the hotkey alt-#. This can be customized in the settings.

Note: You can mark the translated text with the mouse then use the contextmenu to copy it to the clipboard!

As many people have already noticed, the recently released Hollywood SDK comes with source codes for several example plugins. Among them are source codes for plugins that enable Hollywood to load PCX images and AIFF sound files. Due to popular demand Airsoft Softwair has now released these two plugins also as binaries for all platforms supported by Hollywood.

You can download the plugins from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Linux (ARM), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel), Windows and Google's Android platform are provided.

Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the immediate availability of the Hollywood 6.0 SDK. This is the first full release of the Hollywood SDK. Whereas previous versions only contained the necessary header files, the full release also contains an extensive documentation covering almost 350 PDF pages. On top of that, the SDK contains well-commented source codes of example plugins and makefiles for all supported platforms. With this release Airsoft Softwair completely exposes all interfaces for the very first time to enable interested parties to create their own plugins and make Hollywood even more powerful! A new SDK section devoted to plugin development has also been added to the official Hollywood forums. Adding the 850 pages of the Hollywood 6.0 manual there are now almost 1200 pages of documentation which make Hollywood one of the biggest Amiga applications ever. Thanks to the Hollywood documentation system all reference manuals are available as AmigaGuide, HTML, CHM and PDF and can also be viewed online. The SDK is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal.

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

Three years after the release of Hollywood 5 Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 6: Epiphany. Hollywood 6 is a massive update with a myriad of new functions. The most important new feature is the complete abstraction of the core components display, audio and DOS. These can now be completely replaced by plugins which opens up totally new possibilities. For example, it is possible to replace Hollywood's inbuilt display driver with a custom implementation now. A plugin, which uses this new interface to make OpenGL available to Hollywood, will be released shortly.

Download link: Calimero 0.8

• I add In this version a realtime spellchecking Realtime Spellchecking
  A normal single word checking was added, too.
• The text wrap around objects (pictures, shapes...) now Text wraping
  The picture shows three kinds of text wraping: left, around and top/bottom wraping.
• Any wraping is now with usage of its brain ;)
  Because the text was splitting while wraping at a space character, if possible. Only with long words it did't work. So they was split at any character.
• With the mouse movable separator bars of the header/footer.
  After a bugfixing its possible to resize the header/footer with the mouse. Click on the bar at bottom/top of the header/footer and you can resize now the header/footer.

A new edition of fceu this time updated with a new emulation core and improved mappers. The awesome rom hack known as "Zelda: The Legend Of Link" is now playable on the emulator.

The game requires an original Zelda PRG0 rom with this ips patch pre-applied:
http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2136/

v1.6 February 10 2015
- updated emulation core to fceu_mm latest svn build
- updated all mappers to latest fceux versions
- fixed mmc5 register $5130 emulation
- Legend Of Link rom hack now works
- doubled sound output
- fixed a file requestor crash

Get FCEU here: http://members.shaw.ca/realstar/fceu/fceuindex.html

On February 7th 2015, the magazine Obligement announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2014. This represents the best Amiga games voted by Amigans from all Amiga platforms.

More information on : http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2014.php


MorphOS :

1. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Raven Software / LucasArts)
2. Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (Raven Software / LucasArts)
3. Amazing Voxel Bird Saga (Cherry Darling)

Carsten Siegner has released Hyphen 2.8.8, a static C library for handling dictionary-based hyphenation of words.

Supported hypenation dictionaries can be found here. To use any of them, download only the files with "hyph_" at beginning, unpack them and then use any files with ".dic" at the end.

Carsten Siegner has released a new beta version of his desktop publishing application Calimero. You can download it via the following link: Calimero_beta_0.7

From Friday 27th of February until Sunday the 1stof March 2015, the Amiga Club Osnabrück and the Amiga Club Steinfurt will be hosting another user meeting.

If you are interested in MorphOS, you are welcome to join us. In addition to various Pegasos systems, you can expect to see Mac mini, PowerMac, iBooks, PowerMac G5 and Efika systems. Of course, other hardware platforms are very welcome as well with at least one AmigaOS4 system announced to be present .

If you want to bring your own hardware, please inform us as soon as possible because the space for external users is limited. Of course you can always just stop by for a visit if you like.

I know a laptop running MorphOS takes no big space and is portable, but I still need to know about the number of attendees. So if you are interested, please contact me as soon as possible.

The participation is as always free of charge.

Source: http://www.geit.de/eng_index.html

Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2014!

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/award2014.php

There will be no "global" winner, but a winner by systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS).

The final results will be published Saturday, February 7, 2015.

At long last a new version of Hu-Go! is released. This one features many bug fixes and improvements and brings it into sync with the latest code from FCEU and GenesisPlus emulator projects.

Download Here: http://members.shaw.ca/realstar/hugo/hugoindex.html

V1.4 Jan 21 2015
- Major reworking of old emulator and gui code
- Better stability
- SaveState manager with preview pics
- Preview pic on main interface
- Input configuration added
- Filter for file list (.pce|.hcd|.iso)
- CD music starts and stops on fade out IO commands
- CD music restored to correct position on loading state
- Updated to latest version of external lib code
- HuCard and CD seperate rom dir selector
- Doubled possible sound volume range

Stefkos has just released: OpenXCom 1.0 based on sources from january 2015 ( you can take game from here ).
OpenTTD 1.5.0 - beta1 without network support atm (avaiable from here).

You can read about this games on their project sites :
OpenXcom
Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe

An upcoming feature of Calimero 0.4: A Powerpoint (.ppt) loader.

The screenshot shows the early days of this new development. After extensive research, I became familiar with the structure of the PPT file format.

The parsing of pure text found in ppt files is rather trivial whereas parsing pictures is more challenging, but I found sufficient information about how to do so on the internet.

More information will be shared in the near future.

Carsten 'pegasossigi' Siegner has just released Calimero 0.2, the future native word processor for MorphOS.

Planed features:

- Export to epub, pdf and html format;
- Import/export to amigaguide, odt and txt;
- Import from doc ;
- Create whole homepages (+ upload to http server...);
- Printing (postscript);
- Add Pictures.

See a snapshot.
Download Calimero_0.2.lha.
Visit his website.

Don't hesitate to support Carsten in this project participating to the dedicated bounty available on www.warmup-asso.org.

Carsten 'pegasossigi' Siegner has just released a new alpha version of Calimero, the future native word processor for MorphOS.

Planed features:

- Export of ebooks, pdf and html ;
- In/export of amigaguide, odt and txt ;
- Inport of doc ;
- Create whole homepages (+ upload to http server...) ;
- Printing (postdcript) ;
- Add Pictures.

See a snapshot.
Download Calimero_0.1.lha
Visit pegasossigi website.

Don't hesitate to support Carsten in this project participating in the dedicated bounty available on www.warmup-asso.org.

Finnish Amiga Users Group's Saku 2014 event was held in Tampere, Finland, on September 20th and the event was crowded by an estimated 200-300 visitors.

The English and German issue 111 (November/December 2014) 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. This issue features a special on MorphOS and office software, and articles about many other topics.

A more detailed description of the contents and previews of this issue can be found at the Amiga Future magazine hompepage: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=4661

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:

- Septembre/October news.
- Old articles from Amiga News 60 to 62 : Review of AMOS Pro 2.0, Review of CanDo 2.5, Hardware: CD32, Review of Brilliance, Interview with Spina, Report: World Of Commodore 1993 Pasadena, Hardware: Emplant, Review of Real 3D 2.0, Hardware: Vidi Amiga 12, etc.
- Interview with Philippe Guichardon (games developper).
- Interview with Randy Platt (developper at Cinemaware).
- Review of VR Slingshot.
- Review of AMIStore.
- Review of Speed Dreams 2.
- Comparison : multimedias software from 1988-1993.
- Update of the glossary.
- File: the Amiga CD32.
- Tutorial: Wi-Fi on MorphOS.
- Tutorial: installation of AmigaOS 4.1 Classic on WinUAE.
- Tutorial: Retr0Bright (update).
- Special quizz about the graphic cards.

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

Last weekend took place the third edition of the μAlchimie to Clérieux (France) organized by the TrippleA association. A gathering of AmigaNG users (AmigaOS 4.x and MorphOS), Amiga Classic, retro consoles and computers.

The general assembly of the association WArMUp took place during this event. The new statutes of the association are available on this link.

Here are photos and videos of the gathering proposed by K-L:

http://www.amiga-ng.org/resources/MicroAlchimie2k14
http://www.afle.org/Images/MicroAlchimie3/index.html
http://kickstart.id1945.com/Micro-Alchimie3/index.htm
http://cpcrulez.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5323#p27086
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-I1NINdWUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8gjhtBPB6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hFjcpGLrzU

A podcast (in french) produced by BatteMan during this μAlchimie III is available on AmigaImpact.