Today the issue 59 (March/April 2006) has been released. This means that all subscriptions and preorders have been brought to the postal office today. There are some goodies for you on the cover CD:

Full versions:

Defender of the Crown
Defender of the Crown 2
Pulsator unreleased material
Beneath a Steel Sky
Lure of the Temptress
Indigio

Thanks to Guillaume ROGUEZ, native binaries of Feelin are now available for MorphOS.

ENJOY !

That's new:
- Heavily bugfixed uhciusb.device by Frank Mariak!
- New CAMD USB MIDI class driver!
- New Firmware Upgrading class driver!
- HID class improvements.
- Trident GUI layout improved.
- Several bugfixes.

The MorphOS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of an updated MorphOS version for computers equipped with PowerUP accelerator cards. The included changes are as follows:

• Vastly improved graphics hardware compatability: MorphOS now includes 68K drivers for popular graphics cards such as  the Cybervision64, Cybervision 64/3D and the Picasso IV.
• Problems on machines with more than 128MB of memory were fixed.
• hal.com1 was updated in order to allow proper support of CV3D.
• The RegTool (registration application) was updated as well.
• An experimental version of 4IDE support was added. (Please read the IDE splitter section in the "morphos.readme" text file.)
• The update also includes new Hungarian locale settings.

The MorphOS Free Edition for PowerUP can be downloaded from http://powerup.morphos-team.net . We suggest to carefully read the instructions on the website as well as in the included "readme" text to make the installation process as effortless as possible.

We hope you enjoy the update and would like to thank Csaba "Chip" Simon and Péter "Ratman" Földesi for supplying test hardware.

On my www-page (http://www.mguc.republika.pl) you find new release AutoDocReader.
What's new in version 1.2.2 ?
- fixed some bugs,
- small change on gui...
that's all .. for now ;)

From www.GenesiPPC.com

AUSTIN, Texas - February 20th, 2006 - Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL, FSL.B) is supporting Power.org with a mobileGT development platform that taps into a large open source development community, helping drive the PowerPC® architecture into more commercial and industrial applications.

A collaborative effort between Freescale and Genesi USA, Inc., a new mobileGT Alliance member, introduces application opportunities based on the Power Architecture® to members of Genesi's open source developer communities as well as Power.org member developers. The technology bundle combines Freescale's MPC5200B microprocessor based on the Power Architecture® and Genesi's EFIKA reference platform with integrated open source software stack.

For more, go to the Genesi Press Release!

On the Amiga Future Homepage you can read now the old issue 15-19 from the german mag, too.

http://www.amigafuture.de/forum/kb.php?mode=cat&cat=10

http://www.amigafuture.de

A new english version of the Pegasos book has been released.
The document is now 151 pages. Only the UAE part is not translated yet.

For the MorphOS section, this version includes a tutorial for compiling CVS Ambient and updates on memories and HD installation.
For the Linux section, this version includes a tutorial for installing KDE and Enlightenment E17 on Linux Ubuntu 5.10, and a tutorial for installing Linux Suse 10.0.
A new section containing information about LiveCDs has also been created (AROS, Freevo...)

To download the document in english (6Mb)
http://wikipeg.free.fr/ThePegasosBook/

So see the full release notes (8Kb)
http://wikipeg.free.fr/ThePegasosBook/ThePegasosBook_V1.3r2b_en_content.txt


If you find this PDF document usefull, please also note that it is free but donations are really appreciated to keep authors and translators motivated.

Please report any english and technical mistakes.

New exciting info coming out about NewsTek Issue #2. More info in two weeks or visit.

http:/www.discreetfx.com

Starting from our 10th of February meeting, South Essex Amiga Link (SEAL) will be holding its meetings at a new venue in Wickford, Essex. The new hall has better facilities including a licenced bar and if you get bored ballroom dancing in the hall next door!

Only in this January we have a special offer for all Amiga fans outside Germany.

A one-year-subscription of the German Amiga magazine Amiga Future with cover CD for only 51.90 Euros. The additional fee of over 10 Euros for shipping outside Germany does not apply.

This offer is available until 31. January 2006 in our onlineshop.

http://www.amigafuture.de

"2005's PegasosPPC/ODW Support Site Award" goes to MorphZone! Thanks to all the users, moderators, and content authors who made this possible. Read the full announcement on BBRV's blog at http://bbrv.blogspot.com !

#AmigaZeux continues its xmess celebration and releases CD Player for free! This time release includes bug fixed MorphOS version and AmigaOS/AfA version.

Pegasos User Group, Sweden (PUGS) will arrange another PUSH event. We will host it at the same place as before - Wartagården in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The house is booked to the May 1st weekend (April 28th to May 1st - Friday evening to Monday).
We will start on Friday evening at 20.00 CET but we understand if most of you can't show up before Saturday.

There have been some small, but important, changes to MorphZone site navigation as of today, Friday 13, 2006.

-The "Forums" button on the topbar now links to the forum navigation page.

-Hot&New button links to "LatestPosts" module, and all of your favorite lists have also been moved to the LatestPosts page. Now, all latest posts, files, links, and more are all on the same page.

-The "Replacement for LatestPosts" is now utilized specifically for non-english posts. Think of the page as a "LatestPosts for International Forums". The link for this page is still in it's temporary location under "Extra" on the left of the main page.

Google launches Video Marketplace

LAS VEGAS, NV - Jan. 6, 2006 - Live from the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced the planned opening of the Google Video Store, the first open video marketplace enabling consumers to buy and rent a wide range of video content from a major television network, a professional sports league, cable programmers, independent producers and film makers.

[editors note - There is plenty of opportunity here for MorphOS in the area of video content creation.]

The Register UK comments on Polaris.

Earlier than planned the new Amiga Future Issue 58 (January/February 2006) has been released.

Again you can find reports regarding all sections.

We have reviewed Desert Racing for the Classic Amiga, BlobWars for AmigaOS 4 and Virtual GP for MorphOS.

Airsoft Softwair is proud to announce that the biggest update in Hollywood history is now available. Hollywood 2.0 is a massive update with endless new features. The program and its documentation have almost doubled in size. Here is a brief overview of the major new features of Hollywood 2.0 but there are tons more:

Hello,

there are some news from "Tales of Tamar":

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Betatesters wanted for Tales of Tamar Version V0.54

Screenshots of the current version:
http://tamar.4players.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=6717

The first step towards the new 3D map has been made! Tales of Tamar
can now run at a higher resolution and give the project a whole new
look, thanks to a new GUI and handling.

CGX4 4.3 rc6 Update has been released. The download link is available at http://v4.cybergraphx.de/.

This latest update will allow CyberGraphX4 owners to use CyberVision3D / CyberVision64 / PicassoIV drivers with MorphOS on dual boot setups.

AmigaZeux wishes merry christmas 2006 to all Amiga users! To celebrate forth coming christmas event we released new CD Player 2 for all MorphOS users!

With the near-release of this exciting software package that we have been hinting at for months, AmigaZeux and Stevo hosted an IRC Q&A session. You are previledged enough to read the transcript of this exciting session, presented in such a way that no hard questions were asked. Download is available here!!!

After long series of release candidates, there is TTEngine 7.2 (for MorphOS and AmigaOS 3.x) available. This version contains direct render routines for BGRA32 pixel format. More encodings for font names have been added (fixes problem with Marlett font). Also some bugs have been fixed as usual. What is also interesting, TTEngine is one of the first MorphOS software available as MorphUp packet.

New version of ShowGirls is available. ShowGirls is a powerfull image viewer/browser and processing application. Version 0.8 fixes some bugs and adds new features which probably introduces new problems. Various functions were improved and enchanced. Read more for feature list and list of changes in this version.

Nicolas "henes" Sallin just released his "Lightning Spirit" port for morphOS. "Lightning Spirit" is a SDL shoot'em up game based on the "Ikaruga" gameplay.

Merry Christmas from Dr. MorbiusFP!

Just in time for the holidays, we have a whole new tutorial from the good doctor. Read it HERE!

As always, the article can also be found through the Tutorials button along the top-bar.

The Pegasos book, is a FREE downloadable document in PDF format (127 pages in english, 148 in french).

It is a compilation of articles and tutorials about the Pegasos PowerPC computers.
It is designed to gather information which can be consulted off-line or printed easily.
It contains hardware information, also as running operating systems information
(MorphOS, Linux, and MacOSX via MacOnLinux...).

Genesi has licensed ODM Technologies Inc. to produce the EFIKA design with the Pegasos HAL/OF. The license agreement includes a provision for a minimum production quantity of 50,000 units. The EFIKA board is to be the foundation for number of ODM products. The centerpiece to the EFIKA is the Freescale MPC5200 SoC (system on a chip).

For more, see the Official Press Release!