Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2015!

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/award2015.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 6, 2016

The MorphOS development team would like to announce the immediate availability of version 3.10 of the official MorphOS Software Development Kit (SDK). The most notable additions and changes are:

• GCC 5.3.0, including baserel support
• Added a Lua interpreter
• Updates ixemul to 50.16
• Updated tar to 1.28 and sed to 4.2.2

Important: The new SDK requires at least 650 MB of free disk space to install!

The new software development kit is available for download in our files section.

The "Amiga Games List", document created and maintained by David Brunet since 1991, was updated the 16th january 2016. The Amiga Games List is the most extensive collection of its kind on Internet. Beside other news, the games created in 2015 was added. The total reaches now 12 403 games, level editors, data disks, extensions and interpreters subdivided into the categories as follows:

11 865 games
316 extensions and data disks
143 game and level editors
79 interpreters

There are now 469 native MorphOS games.

Link : http://obligement.free.fr/articles/listejeuxamiga.php

I would like to invite interested developers from all platforms to join the Odyssey Web Browser development.

The repository is public, available to everyone and located on GitHub: https://github.com/deadwood-pl/OdysseyWebBrowser

MagicWebp 4.0

A universal tool to view WebP pictures and animations, Convert other picture formats to WebP and mux a directory with pictures to a single WebP animation.

+ The encoder part decode all reggae supported formats.
+ The WebP viewer part support all features of the standart.
+ Fast Preview creator for image directorys.

- Only the top directory was encodet to a WebP anim. Oher sub - directories was ignored.

Simple Mail version 0.42 comes with following changes:

• Updated OpenSSL version to 1.0.1q
• TLS support for SMTP servers (SMTPS, port 465)
• STARTTLS support for IMAP4 servers
• Ability to check account settings within the account configuration
• Revised error window
• Serveral MorphOS specific fixes (thanks to henes)
• Various bug fixes and internal improvements to simplify next development steps

Connecting to GMAIL / Google IMAP4 servers now works flawlessly!

OnyxSoft celebrated their 20:th birthday this year and since it is Christmas time we would like to release a little gift for you all since we think many of you have been good to us during our anniversary =)

RecentFiles.sbar v1.0 - (MorphOS) This is a little screenbar module that will notify you about new recent files for MorphOS users.
- Totaly new program
- Notify about recent changes from the MorphOS-Files portal
- Informs you about new MorphOS releases from MorphOS-Team


Have a nice Christmas all MorphOS fans!

If you know a bug or have a suggestion, please don't hesitate to drop us an e-mail

If you don't feel like contacting us but still like to contribute then OnyxSoft homepage has a Donate button not too far away

MagicWebp 1.0

A viewer for Webp pictures. Please note that support for Webm animations is not currently implemented.

The magazine Obligement publish today an interview with the developper Antoine Dubourg, member of the MorphOS Team. He is famous for his softwares Sermonatrix, Jukebox or SoundBankster.

French version : http://obligement.free.fr/articles/itwdubourg.php
(automatic translations are also available on the Obligement's website)

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PortablE is a recreation of the AmigaE programming language, along with all the improvements I wanted. PortablE works on MorphOS, AROS, OS4, and even Windows to an extent! (It should also work on OS3, but compiling needs a powerful machine like WinUAE.)

This is the first proper new release in 2 years, and has been throughly tested on the latest version of MorphOS, as well as the other supported OSes.

AmiCamp #4, the Amiga event for all the Greek Amiga User, will take place in Athens - Greece on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th of December. It will be open to the public and all the Amiga enthusiasts who keep using and having fun with their Amigas, especially the Next Generation ones.

The new AmiCloud client is now available for MorphOS (10€)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v88ohX8wyKI
Website: http://www.amicloud.de/

Get_dwgpreview

This shell prog unpacks the preview picture of a DWG file. The supported versions of DWG are R_13,R_14, R_2000. The versions R_2004 and R_2007 of DWG are in alpha state and unstable and buggy.

DWG is a file format created in the 70's for the emerging CAD applications. Currently it is the native file format of AutoCAD, a proprietary CAD program developed by AutoDesk

bootanimplayer

Bootanimplayer 1.0 plays Android bootanimations on your system.
Lot of Android Bootanimations

I include the C - source in the archive, too. You can compile the prog on every system (os4...).

A demo version of the remastered edition of Cinemaware's classic Wings! has been released. Please note that the demo version may currently contain bugs and lacks optimizations. You can download it from:  http://www.goldencode.de/download.php?file=WingsDemo_MorphOS.lha

If you like the demo version, you can pre-order a limited-run copy of the game on this page: http://retro.cinemaware.com/product/wings-remastered-amiga-edition/

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:

MorphOS specific (French language):
- September/October 2015 news.
- Report: Amiga 30 à Neuss.
- Review of Wings Battlefield Ultimate Duel Edition.
- Tutorial: utilization of VNC on MorphOS with VNC Server and TwinVNC.

Articles in English:
- Interview with David Pleasance.

"AmigaTec Inc." has released a MorphOS port of a new driving game called "AmigaRacer". Unlike more serious simulations such as Virtual Grand Prix 2, "AmigaRacer" is strongly reminiscent of classics such as Gremlin's Lotus series, Core Design's Jaguar XJ220 or Sega's 1987 title Outrun.

To see a screenshot, click the following link: Picture

You can download the MorphOS version here: Download

David Morris (AmigaDave) and Paul Rezendes (Acill) will be exhibiting MorphOS on a variety of systems at this year´s AmiWest show. The main event will start on Saturday, October 17, and will end on Sunday, October 18. If you are within travelling distance of Sacramento, California, and have no plans for this weekend, please consider to stop by.

For more information about the event, please visit the official website: www.amiwest.net

On his personal blog, Johannes "Yasu" Genberg has shared his experiences from a recent user meeting in Japan and last weekend´s Amiga30 event in Neuss, Germany. His blog post is well worth the read.

Link: https://morphosuser.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/amiga30-at-neuss-and-commodore-fan-club-japan/

On Saturday, October 10, 2015, you will have the opportunity to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Amiga and meet some members of the MorphOS Team in Neuss near Düsseldorf.

Up to 500 participants are expected making this event one of the biggest Amiga meetings of the decade.

Other flavours of our favorite computing platform will be present at this event as well: OS4, AROS, Classic and even emulation will be shown providing a unique occasion to see all of them in action at once.

The MorphOS Team will also have a stand where the X5000 and Sam460 will be exhibited running MorphOS among other supported systems, offering a rare opportunity to witness all the latest features of the forthcoming MorphOS 3.10 before its release...

You will find more information about the event here: http://www.amiga30.de

Airsoft Softwair - the hardest work men in code business - are proud to present a brand-new plugin for Hollywood: The HTTP Streamer. This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to open files stored on HTTP servers as if they were local files. Furthermore, the plugin also supports streaming of audio and video files via HTTP if the AVCodec plugin is installed. This finally makes it possible to do video and audio streaming with Hollywood which opens up a whole new range of possibilities for developers! Once this plugin has been activated, all Hollywood functions that deal with files will "automagically" be able to open files from HTTP sources as if they were stored on a local drive. It just doesn't get any more convenient!

The HTTP Streamer uses a sophisticated multi-threaded design for highly efficient HTTP streaming. Each HTTP connection is managed by a dedicated thread for optimal performance. This means that even when dealing with slower connections, Hollywood itself will never become sluggish or anything as all HTTP I/O runs on dedicated threads.

The HTTP Streamer is the second plugin to bear the Powered by Hollywood 6.0 seal of quality as it utilizes the new file adapter plugin interface and the streaming APIs introduced with Hollywood 6.0. The plugin will not work with older versions of Hollywood. That's why we here at Airsoft Softwair say: Life starts at 6.0. The HTTP Streamer is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the official Hollywood portal Versions for AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS (i386), Windows, Mac OS X (PowerPC and i386), Linux (PowerPC, i386, ARM) and Android are provided.

Please note that video and audio streaming requires at least version 1.3 of the AVCodec plugin.

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

Finnish Amiga Users Group holds its 8th Saku event in Oulu, Finland on Saturday, September 26th. The event will present a good variety of machines from the Amiga's 30 years old history, from the original Amiga 1000 to the latest AmigaOne X1000.

Visitors can also use several MorphOS systems from laptops to a G5 machine and there will be a MorphOS presentation on a big screen.

Finnish Amiga retailer Gentle Eye, computing culture magazine Skrolli, and Effi ry are also present with their products.

Admittance is free of charge and refreshments will be available. Saku 2015 will start at 14:00 on September 26th at Oulun Tetra ground floor conference room at Mäkelininkatu 31.

Please visit the users group's website at http://saku.bbs.fi for more information.

Welcome!

The WArMUp association launches a big raffle to win lots of prizes:

- 1.7 Ghz PowerMac licensed;
- Mac mini 1.5 GHz licensed;
- more prizes are being studied as games, software, t-shirts, pens, stickers, etc...

The raffle will take place during the general assembly of the association, Sunday, November 15th, 2015 at Alchimie 0xb.

PastePass is a simple password manager featuring a cryped database and the abilty to fill in username + password at the stroke of a simple shortcut.

Included is PassTool to crypt the provided password useing the name given during MorphOS regristration.

Download with Grunch or directly at:

http://www.steamdraw.homepage.t-online.de/PastePass.lha

New in this version:

- load and save KeyPassX compatible XML files
- basic grouping of entries
- a default user can be selected
- spanish and french locales included

Chaos Engine inspired game Tower 57 that's currently on kickstarter has recently announced stretch goals for AmigaOS4 & MorphOS ports at 1000 euros over the original goal.

Fabien Coeurjoly has released version 1.1 of his MPlayer port, which was updated to r37401 and a recent ffmpeg.

Download: http://fabportnawak.free.fr/mplayer/MPlayer-1.1-svn-2015.05.21.lha

Update: The project has been successfully funded.

This project aims to add a virtual "Trashcan" to the Ambient desktop environment that behaves similarly to the well-known recycle bin in Windows or trashcan in MacOS.

The specific goals are as follows:

1. Add Trash functionality alongside Delete to Ambient's menus, etc (or make delete take an optional parameter controlling what happens with the file)
2. The same functionality would be exposed to applications via the wblib
3. The Trashcan functionality would create a .trash (or so) directory on each volume when moving files to trash. That means any (writable and local) volume would support the trashcan functionality, no matter what filesystem the volume is formatted with. No files would ever be copied between volumes.
4. All trashed files would be viewable in a single place, in a virtual Trashcan folder showing trashed files from all mounted volumes.
5. Files could be automatically restored to their original locations.

Point 1 implies this will be entirely optional and likely disabled by default.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Link: http://power2people.org/projects/ambient-trashcan/

Available for download the new version of V.A.M.P. ready to use the new Hollywood™ plugins, V.A.M.P. is a multiplayer and viewer made with Hollywood™ this new version has this new improvements:

1. Fixed some bugs.
2. Added of beta option to forward or rewind the movie or song (with mouse wheel) with step time of 1-10-30 seconds or 1 minute, touching the 1-4 number keys.

Visit the official site:
www.morguesoft.eu

The new version availables for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, Windows and applet format to use with the Hollywood Player™.

The silly season just got serious! Airsoft Softwair is proud to present the ultimate 200+ binaries Super Summer Plugin Bash 2015! This is the biggest plugin update in the history of Hollywood! A grand total of 17 plugins have been updated and are now available in brand new versions. Because Hollywood supports so many different platforms, updating 17 plugins means that almost 250 binaries had to be updated, altogether these are over 50 megabytes of new plugin magic! All Raspberry Pi fans will be very happy to hear that all plugins are available in a Linux ARM flavour now too. Linux ARM support was introduced in Hollywood 6.0.