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.

Available to donwload the new version of V.A.M.P. 0.94 the Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player programmed with Hollywood.

This new version has big improvements, as bugs correction and to choose your language among those available: Spanish, English, Italian, French, and Suomi. And the use the new Hollywood plug-in to see jpeg2000 files with this Multiplayer for MorphOS, AmigaOS4, AmigaOS3.5-3.9, and Windows.

Download here from the new official site: www.vamp.pm also www.vamp.es

New update for Reggae multimedia framework is now available. The key features of this update are two new classes. The first, clipboard.stream provides read access to the system clipboard for the rest of Reggae, media files can be now automatically decoded from clips. The second class, gapless.filter, is a base building block for audio players featuring gapless playback. The first, very simple, shell based player using this feature will be released this week. Three other classes, file.output, audio.output, and the base multimedia.class have been also updated with improvements and bugfixes. Users speaking Swedish or Turkish will also get some locale files. All new features are documented in updated compiler headers and sutodocs, so developers won't be disappointed. The package can be automatically installed with Grunch, or downloaded from the download section and installed with included Installer script. In both cases the MorphOS SDK is updated automatically if detected.

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 JPEG2000 format. JPEG2000 is the successor to the popular JPEG format and offers multiple advantages over its predecessor including lossless compression and the possibility to store images with alpha channels. Additionally, when a JPEG2000 plugin is available and you compile executables for Mac OS X, Hollywood will be able to create Mac OS X icons in the resolutions 256x256 and 512x512 as well because these images are encoded using JPEG2000 bitstreams.

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.

MorphOS.pl is happy to announce a co-operation with Szilárd "Bszili" Biró which has resulted in the bounty for TORCS game port for MorphOS. The aim is to collect an amount of 100€. Timeframe is set to 45 days. If the amount will exceed 100€, funds might be used for further ports of games or software. Bounty is expected to initiate a series of ports of games and software so don't hesitate to support Bszili. We are waiting for new port ideas so please share with us.

Steffen Gutmann released an update of the relational, programmable database MUIbase.

Download it from: http://www.os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=office/database/muibase.lha

Read more for changes

A game for kids is now available for MorphOS.
http://www.keho-software.com/pengobrain_hollywood.html

The goal of this little computer game is feeding penguin PENGO with a tasty fish. Sounds easy ? - Our hero must use a predefined path through a very dangerous icefield to reach the fish safely. Remember this way and lead PENGO to his delicious fish. The game becomes more difficult level by level - round by round. Watch for animals, bonus, beams, tunnels, switches and much more to discover on your way feeding pengo. Be clever and make a plan if you reach the higher levels.

Roadshow has been released in version 1.9 The update archive is available for free on the website of Roadshow.

Read more for changes.

On request, i decided to release a recent version of MAME. It's based on 0.148.
Amongst its features:

- Builtin MUI GUI with screenshots and history.dat/mameinfo.dat support and per-game configurations.
- Optimized triple-buffered display routines.
- Overlay support, offering free scaling and filtering. To avoid struggling with exotic screenmodes, MAME clones the Ambient desktop resolution when switching to fullscreen/overlay mode (unless specified otherwise).
- Blanker control
- AHI output
- Joypad / Mouse support
- ...

Click here to download (46MB)

New MomosIRC is available with full support to RFC2812 and debug enabled.

You can download application from site.

Direct link: http://www.mguc.ppa.pl/webpages/momosirc/download/MomosIRC_beta3.lha

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.3. The following (and more) changes have been made over version 2.2:

- regular/symetric polygons
- "private" tools for polygon and bezier, options for moving/adding/removing points will
appear in context-menu while edit-tool is active (for bezier only move points).

Available via Grunch, or directly at:

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

Website www.meta-morphos.org is pleased to offer the pack Chrysalis 3.1.2 for MorphOS 3.1.

This pack allows you to quickly obtain a complete environment preconfigured. This pack is not official, it must installed just after clean installation MorphOS 3.1 (registered or not). To install the package, simply mount the ISO image and click the "Install PackChrysalis" icon.  Feel free to improve this pack by providing a software, translation, idea, etc ...

The ISO image is freely downloadable from the following link:
http://meta-morphos.org/download/pack/chrysalis.iso