eGame now fully lives-up to it's description as a "Game Launcher", because <em>it's now possible to add disk images & 'foreign' executables, and have them automatically loaded by the appropriate emulator (e.g. Hatari, DOSBox, VICE, E-UAE) or game system (e.g. Frotz)

Read more for changes

Odyssey v1.19 has been released!

Odyssey 1.19
Odyssey 1.19 NoSVG

Read more for changes

RunInDOSBox allows double-clicked MS-DOS programs to be automatically redirected to run inside DOSBox.

Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2012! To vote for the best MorphOS, AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4, or AROS games, you can rate them at Amiga Games Award 2012. There will be no "global" winner but a winner by systems (MorphOS, AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x and AROS). The final results will be published Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

The CygnusED webpage is online via a new URL - http://www.cygnused.de. CygnusED is currently produced by Olaf Barthel and is one of the most popular text editors for the Amiga. Albeit slowly, the development of the program is still continuing. We'd like to get your opinion and thoughts as to what features you'd wish for future versions of CygnusEd. Please let us know your ideas by writing to us in the support forum of CygnusEd's new webpages so that we can consider supporting them for the program's future releases.

Just in time for New Year there's another major update to our Amiga Software Database (ASD) at Amiga Future. In the last few weeks we've added and edited several hundred entries, and nearly 1000 new scans. Almost 5000 scanned images of original software/application packaging, manuals, etc. are now included in more than 3700 entries of the database. The next steps will include further additions of CD-ROMs, and (Cover-) Discs and Magazines, an estimated 2000 entries more will be available. Enjoy viewing the largest database of application software and literature related to the Amiga! By the way, issue 100 of the Amiga Future magazine is now available. It's ready and waiting for you to buy it at selected Amiga dealers or directly from our online shop.

eGame now works fully on MorphOS! eGame allows you to keep an easily searchable list of games for playing – rather than having to hunt through lots of folders using Workbench/Wanderer/Ambient. Please note that eGame is only able to start games that you can already run by double-clicking them.

Yet another image manipulation program written in Hollywood? At the first glance A.H.I.W. by MorgueSoft is exactly this. Its hand-drawn GUI, non system friendly localization and set of basic options are typical for this class of software. There are two exceptions however. The first one is extensive documentation in PDF format. The second are a few interesting filters, not to be found in competing software. Examples are "old photo" filter, which is much more than just ordinary sepia, and conversion to binary black and white image with Floyd-Steinberg dithering. The program may be downloaded from the download section.

Since today there is an update available, so Roadshow can also be used on MorphOS. Roadshow is much faster than the internal TCP/IP stack of MorphOS 3.1. Please note, that with MorphOS a manual installation of roadshow is required. The supplied installation script will not run under MorphOS. The user should therefore be familiar with the operating system. The manually installed Roadshow is now directly usable and requires no further intervention to boot. New sample files for the network usage on the Pegasos / Pegasos II, and for Apple hardware are also included. The update can be downloaded for free on the support page of Roadshow.

Szilárd Biró has ported Daniel's Remar platform game RetroBattle. It is a classic platformer done in oldschool NES style, so it features schematic graphics, small sprites, low number of colors and basic animation. Fortunately playability is not lost, however the game is not very easy, especially as it is played with keyboard. The game can be downloaded from our download section.

The Amiga Games List maintained by David 'Daff' Brunet since April 1991 was updated in early 2013 with its 42nd edition. Thus the total reached 11,894 entries as follows:

10 802 Games
912 Extensions or data discs
134 Game/level editors
46 Interpreters

Now, there are 389 native MorphOS games.

Smilla is an application which might prove usefull for people who are in a need for highly upscaled version of a raster image. Used algorithm was developed by Mischa Lusteck. It is most effective for high scaling factors and for line-art/painted images. In current shape it is enough for my personal needs but if i get enough feedback more features might be implemented. Application can be downloaded at: http://kiero.binaryriot.org/SmillaEnlarger.lha

The MorphOS 3.2 SDK is now available. The package comes with updated GG environment, current MorphOS includes, updated documentation, and many minor fixes. Please note that this is a beta release.

Minimum requirements: MorphOS 3.1.

Apart from the installation archive, a package with GG and GCC sources used in the SDK is also available for download.

Taran im Abenteuerland is an old adventure game (German language) for the Amiga (68k) and PC. Achim Kern of KeHo Software is now using Hollywood5 for the game, and now there is also an AmigaOS4 and today also a MorphOS version available. In the game you are Taran and you have to defeat the dark forces and help your king to regain his kingdom. If you like the game - please make a paypal donation on his homepage.

More infos can found at: http://www.keho-software.com/taran_hollywood.html

This is it! Airsoft Softwair has saved their greatest firework for New Year's Day! MUI Royale is a plugin for Hollywood that finally allows you to easily create MUI GUIs with Hollywood. MUI Royale supports over 40 MUI classes including popular third-party classes like TextEditor.mcc and TheBar.mcc. Creating and managing menustrips is also fully supported. The plugin sets new standards concerning the ease of use because the GUI layout can be conveniently defined using an XML file that is converted into a MUI GUI by MUI Royale on the fly. GUI design has never been so easy! Of course, new features of MUI 3.9 (AmigaOS 4) and MUI 4.0 (MorphOS) are also supported.

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.2. The following (and more) changes have been made over version 2.1:

• added "Project"-entry in objectlist to set the overall size of a drawing
• new tab "Position&Size" to manual edit objects.

Available via Grunch, or directly at:
http://www.steamdraw.homepage.t-online.de/SteamDraw.lha

This is a quick update to eGame, to fix problems that some users were having. It also looks a lot nicer. eGame allows you to keep an easily searchable list of games for playing - rather than having to hunt through lots of folders using Workbench/Wanderer/Ambient. Read more for changes.

Harry "Piru" Sintonen provided information regarding the status of the MorphOS port for Apple's PowerMac G5:

Everything is progressing nicely. Bigfoot also did some preliminary benchmarking using the same LAME (13 seconds) and MPlayer (49 seconds) benchmarks as used here. (This is with the 2.0 GHz G5.)

Screenshot: http://bigfoot.morphos-team.net/test/another-g5-monitorshot.jpeg

Merry XMAS everyone.

OWB 1.18 has been released.

Download it from the usual location at:
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.18.lha
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.18-nosvg.lha

To start some advertising for the newly created "Official MorphOS Community on Google+", MorphOS-Team is doing a lottery offering three limited edition MorphOS-CD-Boxes as "Google+ Limited Edition". Everyone who is participating until 24th of January and joins one of the MorphOS community streams is able to win one of those. Members of the MorphOS Team can also contribute to the streams, but are not entitled to participate in the lottery. The winners are announced on 25th of January.

MorphOS community on Google+

Frank Mariak was at Pianeta Amiga with MorphOS on an ACube Sam460 and Francois Revol was also there with his early efforts of porting Haiku to the same platform.

Apparently, this can be queried here - projectnaomo@morphos-team.net
Other resources: ACube@facebook - HaikuOS@Pianeta

A new update for Reggae multimedia framework is available via Grunch and in MorphZone downloads section. Key features are:

• the first image encoder (using Reggae media saver API) for IFF DEEP format, written by Michał Żukowski,
• Czech, French, German, Polish and Spanish locale for GUI of audio encoders and multimedia.class
• improvements in audio.output class.

As usual there are also small bugfixes, see the changelog for details. The update is selfcontained, may be installed over any previous 3.1.x update or clean MorphOS 3.1.

PRESS RELEASE
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Fabio Falcucci and Pascal Papara are proud to announce the immediate availability of G.E.M.Z. for all major operating systems.

G.E.M.Z. is a puzzle game with an original and addictive gameplay, an original story behind and a massive 43 minutes of original soundtrack.

It's available in four languages: english, german, french and italian.

Exactly ten years ago today, Hollywood 1.0 was shipped to the first customers. Since then the software has grown to one of the largest Amiga programs and is now available for all major systems including the mobile platform Android. To celebrate the success story of Hollywood, version 5.2 has been released today for all existing customers of Hollywood. Hollywood 5.2 is a major update which includes several new features among the usual bug fixes. Read more for a brief overview of new features in 5.2.

Hollywood 5.2 is the first joint release of Hollywood for both desktop and mobile platforms. Users of the Android version can conveniently update to 5.2 via Google Play while users of the Amiga and Windows versions can download update archives (35 to 45 MB in size) free of charge from the official Hollywood portal.

Please note that Hollywood 5.2 is currently only available for existing customers and cannot be purchased at this time.

The V.A.M.P. video player is available for download on www.vamp.es. This multimedia player is programmed with Hollywood and it is prtially based on Andreas Falkenhahn's example source codes of VideoPlayer and AnimPlayer. This little tool has been made to demostrate the multimedia features of this programming language it is not aimed at sustituting other videoplayers.

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.1. The following (and more) changes have been made over version 2.0:

• use of cairo as shared library instead of linklib
• removal of fill-option "Gradient", cairo seems to have some issues with keeping track of used memory here
• fill-option "Picture" is now rotated when it's object is
• removed some serious bugs,
• SteamDraw runs now again in only 1 task but extra meassures to minimize CPU-load and lagging are still included.

Available via Grunch, or directly at:
http://www.steamdraw.homepage.t-online.de/SteamDraw.lha

MorphOS.pl in co-operation with Mark 'BigFoot' Olsen is pleased to announce that bounty for MorphOS port to a PowerMac G5 has been opened. Please read more for bounty details.

The following MorphOS related articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months :

- September/October 2012 news.
- News: insights about the Amiga in 2012.
- Report: Amigâteries 2011.
- Interview with Yannick Buchy (webmaster of Meta-MorphOS.org).
- Review of Hurrican.
- Hardware: reflash of graphic cards in order to you it on Mac/MorphOS (update).
- Tutorial: utilisation of GMail with SimpleMail and YAM (update).

The English and German issue 99 (November/December 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. Mag Content:

Sqrxz
Agent Lux
AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5
Zormanita

and so much more ...