Thanks to an unusual and generous financial contribution from William "Fraggle" Morris, Mark "bigfoot" Olsen has announced plans to fast-track the development of a 3D graphics driver for AMD/ATI's R300 chipset which is built into various Powerbook models and available on user-replaceable extension cards.

Mark confirmed to MorphZone exlusively: "I am happy to announce that Fraggle has made good on his offer and is sponsoring the R300 3D driver development with the generous sum of 2000 euro."

The MorphZone Team would like to thank all involved parties for their participation and hopes for a speedy release of the new drivers so all MorphOS users with compatible hardware can benefit from them.

A three dimensional puzzle game ported on MorphhOS by Herbert 'HAK' Klackl.

Website : http://www.lgdb.org/game/octaspire_crates

HAK website : http://hak.binaryriot.org/?C=M%3BO%3DD

Zormanita is an audio format converter. It has been written as a result of MorphOS media saving API bounty. Currently it can load AIFF, WAVE (several flavours), 8SVX, 16SV, and MPEG Audio files, they can be saved as AIFF, WAVE or raw data. Because Zormanita uses new Reggae features, it will support any audio codecs added to Reggae in the future. All the program (including codec selection and its parameters) is controlled with GUI. Source code is included to the archive, which can be downloaded from the download zone.

The English and German issue 98 (September/October 2012) 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. From the issue 94 the Amiga Future magazine is printed in full colour.

U1Synth is one of results of MorphOS.pl Reggae media saving API bounty. The program is an example of using new Reggae capabilities, writing Reggae custom classes and general MUI programming. Source code of the program is released on BSD license. In the current version of U1Synth the synthesis engine is very simple: a fixed sine wave generator with adjustable ADSR envelope. It may be made more advanced in the future. The archive of the program contains also a set of new and updated Reggae classes, which are installed by installation script.

NoWinED is a MUI-based TextEditor for all Amiga flavours. With this version NoWinED supports tab characters, many bugs are now fixed, read changelog for detailed changes...

This is first version developed with MorphOS so thanks to all friends which have donated my pb, this is for you

A.H.I.W. is an easy program to handle your pictures to use on your web pages projects or you need a fast and easy tool to edit them.

Download from: www.morguesoft.es

Low End Mac is a well known site among the enthusiasts of older Apple hardware. MorphOS just got a little bit of coverage on the site thanks to Sebastian Patting's article which sheds a little light at the history of MorphOS and explains why it can be of interest to people still using their old PowerPC machines.

Sirena AHIW is an easy program to handle your pictures to use on your web pages projects or you need a fast and easy tool to edit them. It was created with Hollywood 5 for Amiga OS3.5-3.9, AmigaOS 4.x., MorphOS 2.7 and Windows XP-Vista-7.

New features are: Drop files supported, ESC key presses are checked. Corrected some bugs and improved useability.

Donwload from: www.morguesoft.org

AmIRC, the premium amiga IRC client has been updated for both MorphOS (PowerPC) and AmigaOS (m68k).

Download AmIRC from http://www.amirc.org/download

On the occasion of 10 years of NASS, the site meta-morphos.org is pleased to offer the Ultimate Pack 3.1. This pack allows you to quickly obtain a complete environment and containing a selection of preinstalled software, games and emulators for MorphOS 3.1. This pack is unofficial, it must be installed just after clean installation of MorphOS 3.1 (registered or not). The ISO image is freely downloadable from the following link. To install the pack, you simply mount the ISO image and click the "Install Ultimate Pack".

Download: http://meta-morphos.org/download/pack/ultimate.iso

Stefkos/BlaBla releases an alpha 0.62 version of Paint application for MorphOS.

Preview http://stefkos.amigazeux.net/paint.png
Download: http://stefkos.amigazeux.net/Paint.lha

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.1, which offers various enhancements and bug fixes. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.

We strongly urge new users 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 3.1 is available for download in our files section.

The full colour preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 97 (July/August 2012) are now available online. Highlights in this issue are: MorphOS 3.0 & Emulators

Of course there's so MUCH more actually in the magazine. Needless to say you'll find some FULL versions of software, often what was commercially available, as well as the PD software on the cover CD. A detailed description of content and excerpts can be found at: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=4193

The Amiga Future magazine is available as an English and German printed magazine - every issue now available in FULL COLOUR - directly available from the magazine editorial office and also from various other Amiga dealers.

After 18 months of intense development, Airsoft Softwair is very proud to announce the immediate availability of the long awaited fourth incarnation of our famous Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer 4.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia based applications; for example presentations, slide shows, simple games, and programs. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86), Mac OS X (PPC & x86) and Linux (PPC & x86). This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world.

The MorphOS Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.0.

The release brings, among many other things, PowerBook support for 1.67GHz models, the CD / DVD authoring application Jalapeno, the FTP / SFTP client Transfer, an updated Odyssey Web Browser, new Reggae classes, the Reggae based music player Jukebox, and many other improvements.

The update is free for the owners of MorphOS 2.x keyfiles. Moreover, older machines can now be registered at reduced prices.

Sirena AHIW is a program created with Hollywood 5 for Amiga OS3.5-3.9 , AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS 2.7 now 3.0 and Windows. It is an easy program to handle your pictures to use on your web pages projects or you need a fast and easy tool to edit them.

Python 2.7.3 and Mercurial 2.2.2 have been released for MorphOS.

Projects located on bitbucket:

http://bitbucket.org/yomgui/cpython/wiki/Home
http://bitbucket.org/yomgui/mercurial/wiki/Home

The 3.x version has been also ported for Blender 2.5x, but not integrated in bitbucket.org yet.

Check Download tab for binaries distributions.

Python is a shared MorphOS library.

An update of the AVCodec plugin for Hollywood 5: Infinity has just been released. This update fixes some problems with WMV video files. A new feature is that the plugin now establishes a gateway to Hollywood's sound stream interface so that Hollywood can now play audio files supported by the FFMPEG codec collection as well, for example M4A/AAC (used by iTunes). This is especially useful on systems like AROS and Linux because Hollywood doesn't support MP3 playback on these platforms by default.

You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood 5.0's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (Classic), AmigaOS3 (FPU), AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (Intel), Linux (PowerPC), Linux (Intel), Mac OS (PowerPC), Mac OS (Intel) and Windows are provided.

Philippe Rimauro aka OffseT released a new version of ACE, a CPC old generation emulator (no Plus support). It try to emulate the PSG of the CPC perfectly. The emulator was also written from scratch, so it isn’t just a port of an existing open source CPC emulator. Don’t hesitate and download it from the ACE homepage:

http://ace.cpcscene.com/en:introduction