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
 ( : p)
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 ...

www.meta-morphos.org is pleased to offer the Ultimate pack 3.1.1 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 Pack Ultimate" icon.

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

Reggae media processing framework has been updated to version 3.1.5. A new scheme of versioning is synchronized with MorphOS versions, it means 3.1.x Reggae is an update for MorphOS 3.1. Grunch users have already received this update incrementally, now it is also available in the download section of the site, as a standalone archive with Installer script. The update mostly contains new and updated classes resulting from the completed bounty for media writing. As usual there are also numerous bugfixes. All changes are listed in a changelog contained in the archive. Developer documentation and SDK include files have been updated too, and are installed automatically if SDK installation is detected.

The full colour preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 99 (November/December 2012) are now available online. Highlights in this issue are: Classic Computiung, Agent Lux, AmiSystemRestore and Sqrxz. Of course there's so MUCH more actually in the magazine. Needless to say you'll find some FULL versions of software (example Foundation DC), often what was commercially available, as well as the PD software on the cover CD. A detailed description of content and excerpts can be found at: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=4297

A new updated OpenBOR (a free engine for one on one fight games) is available to download with new features and bugfixes. Download it from our download section: OpenBOR v3 Relase 3711.

MomosIRC is an IRC client for MorphOS. It is a new application, written from scratch, having MUI user interface. Due to incoming another break in the joyful creativity, the author decided to share the beta with users as is (with debug output turned on...). Not all features are implemented yet, but program is stable, and quite usable.

V.A.M.P. media player programmed with Hollywood has an official site www.vamp.es with news and download. At the moment the site is Spanish only. Program author is looking for volunteer translators.

Here are photos and videos of the Saku 2012 event which was held on September 29th in Oulu, the northern Amiga capital of Finland. The event was a success with around 70 visitors, which was achieved with proper advertisement and also promotion in other public events.

A new version with a MUI gui was released, built with UAE4all rc3 source.

This version finally support the new FAME emulation core that run faster.

Binary: uae4all_031.lha
Source: uae4all_031_src.lha

Jack 3.2.5 Released for all (Amiga-like) Platforms

AmigaOS - OS4Depot
Classic (now available with or without FPU) - Aminet
MorphOS Beta - Available here (Debug mode enabled - I need someone to test it!)
WarpOS - Aminet
Support website: http://jackforamigaos.wordpress.com

To celebrate adding Sudominator and U1Synth to the package manager Grunch, both programs have been updated. Sudominator had some problem with new MUI 4 transparency effect for disabled gadgets. This effect has been unnecessarily applied to the sudoku field when live solver was running, so the whole thing was unreadable. U1Synth has got an octave switch, a first small step towards changing it from a toy to a simple, yet usable synthesizer.

A new version of audio converter Zormanita brings automatic file extension handling. There is an option for removing extension from the source file name and for adding default extension (based on selected output format). These features with previously available ones, like copying source name to destination and dropping files from Ambient into Zormanita window, make it easier to convert multiple files. A Reggae classes update comes with Zormanita, it adds 24 and 32-bit modes to AIFF, WAVE and Raw encoders. Zormanita may be downloaded from our download section.

OULU, FINLAND - September 22nd, 2012 - Finnish Amiga Users Group holds its 5th Saku event in Oulu, Finland on Saturday, September 29th. The event is free for anyone interested in the wide range of current Amiga compatible systems. Admittance is free of charge and refreshments will be available. Saku 2012 will start at 13:00 on September 29th at Oulun Tetra ground floor conference room at Mäkelininkatu 31.

The V.A.M.P. player or Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player programmed with Hollywood and with the intention of show the Hollywood playing multimediafiles such as: video, anim files, gif, MovieSetter, etc., has a new version the 0.60 only for MorphOS and available fror download here:

http://www.morguesoft.eu or directly http://www.morguesoft.eu/Paginas/Downloads.htm

Thanks to an unusual and generous financial contribution from William "Fraggle" Morris, Mark "bigfoot" Olsen has announced plans to fast-track the development of a 3D graphics driver for AMD/ATI's R300 chipset which is built into various Powerbook models and available on user-replaceable extension cards.

Mark confirmed to MorphZone exlusively: "I am happy to announce that Fraggle has made good on his offer and is sponsoring the R300 3D driver development with the generous sum of 2000 euro."

The MorphZone Team would like to thank all involved parties for their participation and hopes for a speedy release of the new drivers so all MorphOS users with compatible hardware can benefit from them.

A three dimensional puzzle game ported on MorphhOS by Herbert 'HAK' Klackl.

Website : http://www.lgdb.org/game/octaspire_crates

HAK website : http://hak.binaryriot.org/?C=M%3BO%3DD

Zormanita is an audio format converter. It has been written as a result of MorphOS media saving API bounty. Currently it can load AIFF, WAVE (several flavours), 8SVX, 16SV, and MPEG Audio files, they can be saved as AIFF, WAVE or raw data. Because Zormanita uses new Reggae features, it will support any audio codecs added to Reggae in the future. All the program (including codec selection and its parameters) is controlled with GUI. Source code is included to the archive, which can be downloaded from the download zone.