Rupert "naTmeg" Hausberger has published drivers for Promise SATA II 150/300-series PCI-adapters. The minimum requirements are MorphOS 1.x or higher so users running old MorphOS set ups can utilitze them as well.

Features:

Up to 2 adapters ATA/ATAPI support UDMA/PIO support ATA SCSI-emulation ATAPI disk-change handler

EXEC/TD/TD64/SCSI commands 64-bit support (drives > 2TB) S.M.A.R.T. support Support for query.library (HDConfig/Mounter)

You can download the drivers and sources on the following page: http://www.219.dic.at

Yet another MorphOS.pl bounty is set for implementing a PowerPC code generator for Webkit, allowing it to compile JavaScript into native PowerPC code which in the end results in JavaScript executing faster (common called JIT JS). When bounty will be finished, this code will be implemented in the latest available version of Odyssey Web Browser. The bounty minimal sum is set to 800 €, estimated timeframe is 60 days since minimal bounty sum will be collected. Bounty taker is Mark „BigFoot” Olsen. You can participate in this bounty here.

MorphOS.pl is happy to anounce another bounty. This time bounty is for Despotify port for MorphOS. What is Despotify? It's an open source Spotify client. Disadventages of this software are: working in text-mode only and requirement of premium account at Spotify service. Bounty taker is Szilárd „BSzili” Biró and the minimum amount is set to 100 euros. You can contribute to that bounty here. We are also glad to finalize two game bounties: Return to the Roots and OpenXCOM ports. We would like to say big thank you to all the donors and to bounty developers.

After two months of number crunching the Team MorphOS advanced another 100 places up and entered the top 100 of distributed.net OGR-27 contest. Now is the time for the real struggle. Why not to join our 28 members and accelerate the progress?

Association WArMUp is pround to offer you the pack Chrysalis 3.3.1 for MorphOS 3.3. This pack allows you to quickly obtain a complete environment preconfigured. This pack is not official, it must installed just after clean installation MorphOS 3.3 (registered or not). To install the package, simply mount the ISO image and click the "Install Pack Chrysalis" icon.

The ISO image is freely downloadable from the following link: http://meta-morphos.fr/download/pack/chrysalis.iso (577 MB)

The list of changes is available at the follow of this article. Feel free to improve this pack by providing a software, translation, idea, etc ...Feel free also to support developers MorphOS for the adventure continue. Thank you very much. Papiosaur

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.3, which includes various bug fixes and other improvements. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.

We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting 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 3.3 is available for download in our files section.

In order to celebrate the 2000th MorphOS registration, we'd like to thank our users for their support since the introduction of the MorphOS 2.0 in 2008. Since MorphOS 2.4, we've been expanding our hardware base to a variety of Apple PowerPC computers, including their excellent portables. The adoption rate of the Mac mini quickly surpassed the bPlan machines, and the Mini still remains the most popular MorphOS platform.

Hardware Statistics:

• 37%
  Mac Mini
• 25%
  Pegasos 2
• 12%
  Powerbooks
• 9%
  PowerMac G4
• 8%
  Efika
• 4%
  Pegasos 1
• 3%
  PowerMac G5
• 2%
  Others

Version 1.5 of GenesisPlus is now available for download. This is a major update featuring a new emulation core that now supports Genesis - SegaCD - MasterSystem and GameGear. It also features a gui save state manager and better controller re-mapping.

Get it here: http://members.shaw.ca/realstar/

V1.5 Sept. 03 2013
- Major update complete overhaul of emulation core to new based on the latest GenesisPlus Wii version
- Sega CD, MasterSystem and GameGear emulation
- Better window size handling
- Seperate rom dirs for each supported console
- New input configuration panel
- XBox 360 gamepad support via sensors.library
- New save state manager panel
- Many other bug fixes and improvements

Enjoy!

Please visit the Finnish Amiga Users Group's website for more info.

OnyxSoft is releasing two software updates: ZoomIT, ZoomIT.pobj

Updated program

ZoomIT v1.3 - (MorphOS, OS4, OS4, AROS_i386) A MUI-based magnify/zoom application.
- Removed the requirements for CyberGraphX (shall work even on non-RTG hopefully).
- Added türkçe translation (Thanks to Serkan Dursun).
- Added español translation (Thanks to Dámaso Domínguez).
- Removed Scale Mode
- Removed Color Mode
- Removed Magnifications above 1000%

New program

ZoomIT.pobj v1.0 - (MorphOS 3.2+) ZoomIT.pobj is a small panel object created for MorphOS 3.2 or later.
- First relase. =)

Available to download the new version of Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player or V.A.M.P. a multimedia player programmed with Hollywood that plays movies, songs, sounds, show pictures. This new version has the next improvements:

1. Compiled with the lastest Hollywood 5.3.
2. Suppressed the text message with the % of volume bar.
3. Fixed the bug that was preventing the repeating the multimedia file.
4. Again available the autoplay video and song when you have loaded the file.
5. Corrected the rewind/forward video&song time with the mouse wheel, now it is second to second.
6. Improvement the player GUI, new button Mute OFF for the option Mute ON/OFF.

Available to Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Amiga 68k with graphic card, V.A.M.P. needs the Hollywood plugins and datatypes.

Download from:
www.vamp.pm

OGR-27 is a distributed number crunching contest, computing an optimal Golomb ruler. Team MorphOS constists of MorphOS developers and users and takes part in the contest with remarkable results. In just 40 days we have moved 100 places up, and now are at 193. The team has 26 members now, but why not to have more? Everyone is invited.

A MorphOS port of the OpenXcom game is now avaiable. More information can be found in the included readme file.
You can learn more about the game itself here and the actual MorphOS version is vailable via this link.

Airsoft Softwair is happy to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 5.3. Version 5.3 is a major update which includes several new features as well as important bug fixes. Most new functionality is introduced in the Android version which comes with a fully native Java-based GUI now, supports many new commands from the desktop versions and has hardware-accelerated scaling now. But also the desktop versions of Hollywood have improved with release 5.3.

SUPERBYTE 2013 – CHIPTUNE, RETRO GAMING & 8 BIT ARTS WEEKENDER

In September 2012 we hosted SuperByte 2012 – a musical and cultural first for Manchester in the form of an all day micromusic and retro gaming festival which was one of the largest of its kind in the UK.

On Friday 13th and Saturday 14th of September 2013, the UK and international micromusic community will descend on Jabez Clegg in Manchester for two days of live music, visual arts, retro gaming and more as part of SuperByte 2013 - an event which is looking to be bigger, bolder and bleepier than its 2012 counterpart.

The English and German issue 103 (July/August 2013) 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 includes a review of MorphOS 3.2.

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 related:

• May/June 2013 news.
• Report: Alchimie 111111.
• Review of MorphOS 3.2.
• File: models and IDs of PowerPC Macintosh (update).
• Tutorial: installation of MorphOS 3.x.

MorphOS.pl is pleased to announce another bounty for open source game. This time on agenda is OpenXCOM: openxcom.org. Bounty taker is Paweł Stefkos Stefański. The bounty minimal sum is set to 80 Euro, estimated timeframe is 45 days since minimal bounty sum will be collected. All the funds collected over the minimal sum might be used for further games or software ports done by Paweł Stefański. Fell free to donate that bounty on dedicated bounty page.

Lua Explorador is MUI based source level debugger for Lua programs. Highly integrated port of the Lua language, featuring dynamic modules as shared libraries and ARexx ports support is included in MorphOS. Lua Explorador allows for single step execution, breakpoints, displays local and global variables, Lua stack and call history. Just released version 0.4 has improved code viewer with tabulator support, breakpoints, autoscrolling to executed line and some minor bugfixes. The program can be downloaded from our download section.

Associations of MorphOS users WArMUp and AFUM are pleased to offer the pack Chrysalis 3.2.1.

This pack allows you to quickly obtain a complete environment preconfigured. This pack is not official, it must installed just after clean installation MorphOS 3.2 (registered or not). To install the package, simply mount the ISO image and click the "Install PackChrysalis" icon.

With current MorphOS 3.2 release, bounty for G5 port is beign closed. Mark 'Bigfoot' Olsen got transferred sum of 13550 PLN. Also Torcs bounty taken by Szilárd „BSzili” Biró is now finished as well. Sum of 681 PLN is already transferred to BSZili. Because the collected amount exceeded bounty goal, BSzili also prepared Speed Dreams port. Both ports can be downloaded from his website. MorphOS.pl also opened a new bounty for Return to the Roots port (www.siedler25.org). Bounty is available here. Thanks for all donors involved in past and future bounties!

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 3.2, which introduces support for Power Mac G5 workstations, iBook G4 laptops and additional PowerBook G4 models. The 3.2 release also has a strong focus on improved network support with a completely new and improved NetStack core as well as support for wireless networks. In addition, there are several new network-related tools such as VNC client, a Remote Desktop Client and a tool showing detailed network statistics. As usual, the latest release also offers many new features 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 troubleshooting 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 3.2 is available for download in our files section.

Cinnamon Writer is now available for 1st time for MorphOS. Read more for features.

http://desler.be/modules/wfchannel/

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.4.

Main change over 2.3 is a reworked edittool that now allows to modify objects with just one click.

Download with Grunch or:

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

IceDoctor 1.3 released

o Less memory used when salvaging files
o "Rebuilding reuse linkage" phase could freeze computer, fixed
o Hard links were always seen as broken, fixed

Archive

Airsoft Softwair has just released a new plugin for Hollywood 5 - Infinity. This plugin enables all Hollywood scripts to load and save images in the TIFF format. TIFF is a format that offers lossless compression and the possibility to store images with alpha channels. Although many Amiga systems already have a TIFF datatype installed, it's still recommended to install this plugin because OS4's TIFF datatype doesn't support alpha channel graphics and saving via datatypes is also problematic on many systems.

You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood 5'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), Windows and Google's Android platform are provided.

New version IRC client for MorphOS is out. More details on my home webpage

Version has been bumped from 2.0 to 2.1

Vectrex is a vector-based video games console released in 1982.

Download: http://jupp3.binaryriot.org/releases/ports/vecxgl.lha

Games can be (legally) downloaded from: http://www.arcadeathome.com/dl.phtml?vectrex/vectrexroms.zip

Odyssey 1.20 has been released. Amongst its changes:

- Updated to WebKit r144529 (March 2013). Amongst many other fixes, it cures an issue with some asp sites.
- Added copy image URL location in image contextmenu.
- Now uses MorphOS cairo/pixman/fontconfig shared libraries.
- Plugins are now expected to have version 2 or later.
- With spellchecker.library 50.1+ (MorphOS 3.2+), word learning feature is now functional.
- More bugfixes in websockets handling.
- Don't crash when HTML5 desktop notifications are invoked.

A new version of swfdec has been released as well, to support Odyssey using cairo shared library. As a bonus, it should be a bit faster than before. The audio routine has also been reworked, and requires latest Reggae to work.

Odyssey 1.20 (26MiB)
swfdec_plugin 2.0 (8MiB)

MultiPlay is the first prorgam using new Reggae 3.1.7 feature, namely gapless music playback. It is a shell commands. It accepts any number of audio files as arguments, then plays them one by one as a continuous audio stream. It is intentionally made simple, as the source code is included, on permissive BSD license. Then being an usefull tool it also serves as programming example. However with lossy formats (like MP3) joins of streams may be still heard sometimes, MultiPlay will also work with coming FLAC decoder, and this format, being lossless, provides perfect joining. Note that Reggae Update 3.1.7 has to be installed for MultiPlay. The program can be found in the download section or installed with Grunch.