Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0 of the XML plugin for Hollywood. This plugin, previously known as XML Parser, was one of the first Hollywood plugins and has now received a major update with many new features.

The biggest new feature in version 2.0 of the Hollywood XML plugin is that you can now serialize Hollywood tables to XML documents with just a single function call. In the same way you can also deserialize XML documents to Hollywood tables with just a single function call. This is made possible by Hollywood 9's new serialization plugin interface which is why the XML plugin now requires at least Hollywood 9.0. Further new features include lots of new callbacks to handle advanced XML features like namespaces, entities, attlists, and more. Finally, the XML plugin now includes a comprehensive documentation that describes all features and contains many examples.

The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin systemversions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Note that Hollywood 9 is strictly required by the XML plugin 2.0.

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

Amiga-News.de asked developers and programmers for a little anecdote for an advent calendar. So from December 1st until Christmas in sometimes shorter, sometimes longer texts you will read about their Amiga beginnings, first successes and experiences from their creative wealth and little incidents to smile or even to think about. And of course also one, maybe two ;) MorphOS developers are involved. A big thank you to all who participated!

Iris 1.5 is now available for download from iris-morphos.com.

The new version introduces support for auto-archiving attachments into a zip archive, including encrypting them with password. It's also possible to unpack zip attachments directly from Iris.

The new version introduces massive performance gains in decoding of large file images.

Also changed:
- Loading progress bar colour can now be configured in Interface settings
- Cherrypicked OffscreenCanvas fixes from latest WebKit sources
- Added handling of very long filenames when finalizing a download
- Fixed a bad free call in the media decoder
- Disabled some stray debug

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RNOTunes is a GUI based audio player application with support for many different audio formats, embedded cover images, and Last.fm scrobbling. A video demonstration of the program is available on YouTube.

Please visit its homepage for more information, screenshots, and download links.

The English and German issue 159 (November/Dezember 2022) of our print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from our editorial office at Amiga Future, and from other Amiga dealers that stock it.

This issue includes a review of version 5.1.2 of Pagestream for MorphOS.

On November 4th 2002, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, released Hollywood 1.0 for 68k AmigaOS. Originally advertised as a multimedia authoring solution, nobody would have expected back then that this software would turn into a cross-platform programming language for lots of platforms with dozens of plugins for all kinds of tasks. Now, 20 years later, Hollywood is still going strong, receives regular updates and new plugins, and is used by many people around the globe. All of this would not have been possible without the continued support of many Hollywood enthusiasts in the past 20 years. Only the positive feedback we received right from the start made us continue developing Hollywood into what it is today.

As a little "thank you", we proudly present yet another plugin for Hollywood: XLSX. The XLSX plugin makes it possible to conveniently read and write XLSX documents from Hollywood scripts. It offers a wide variety of functions to set and get cell values, cell types, cell formulas, document/worksheet properties and several other attributes. It also offers an iterator function for a high performance iteration of a large number of cells.

New vulnerabilities have been identified and fixed for the version of OpenSSL that is included in MorphOS 3.17. Two discovered issues, namely CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, were found to potentially affect MorphOS users.

A fixed OpenSSL library will be bundled with a future MorphOS release. Meanwhile, you can install the following replacement openssl3.library that fixes the problem for MorphOS 3.17: Download

To install it, copy the file to MOSSYS:Libs and reboot.

The new Wayfarer version introduces a full WebKit WebInspector, downloads improvements and JavaScript engine bug-fixes.

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Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce that version 1.5 of the AVCodec plugin for Hollywood has just been released. This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to load all kinds of video and audio formats supported by FFmpeg. Version 1.5 is a minor update which introduces support for parametric stereo and contains some fixes.

Version 1.5 of the AVCodec plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided.

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

If you search for "Mac mini G4" on Google France, you can now see that an "optimized snippet" appears. And surprise, this link, which is prominently displayed at the top of the page, references the review of the Mac mini G4 under MorphOS, published on Obligement. This link appears in front of the pages of Wikipedia, eBay or even Apple itself!

It's time for a new public update of TinyGL. You can download it here.

The highlights of this update are:

• Support for shaders on R500.
• Various shader related bug fixes and optimisations.
• Inclusion of ShaderBoy to test and play around with shaders.

See the included readme file for a full list of changes since the last update.

Links: |  https://tinygl.molsen.co.za/   |  MorphZone Forum  |

Iris 1.4 is now available for download from iris-morphos.com

Changes:

• Implemented message send scheduling
• Added 'Edit as New Without Attachments...' to menus
• Added 'Attach File(s)...', 'Remove Attachments' to the writer window's menu
• SVG images may now be directly embedded into the email / signature
• Fixed folder list sort order when adding/enabling accounts
• Added a check against trying to send an email with no recipients set
• Brings up an account online when trying to view a message that isn't locally cached
• Subject line and mail address text encoding fixes
• Fixed Show/Hide all headers menu state after reloading a message in the same view
• Added a workaround for broken Subject headers (GMail likes to send them as raw UTF8)
• Updated WebKit and other base libs

Wayfarer has now been updated to the latest stable WebKitGTK branch.

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RNOEffects is a simple image processing program with a focus on good batch conversion options and alpha channel based effects. A new video demonstration of the program is available at YouTube.

Please visit its homepage for more information, screenshots, and download links, or click the "Read More..." link for the changelog of the new version.

Jacek has kindly taken time for an interview with Amiga-News. Many thanks again, Jacek!

The new Wayfarer release comes with following changes

- Implemented ClearKey DRM support for HLS media streams
- Implemented HLS stream quality switching accessible from the media popup
- Added configurable touch events emulation (think Youtube-Mobile seeking slider)
- Refactored the HLS player to allow MPEG-TS playback
- Live HLS streams now start playing closer to the current time
- Improved stream end position reporting to get some streaming services correctly skip to next stream after playing ads
- Updated libcurl

While not very popular these days, ClearKey encryption is still being used by some live streaming services. Wayfarer will now play those streams (https://tv.nrk.no for example).

The touch events emulation makes it possible to seek on mobile Youtube again.

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From Friday 29th till Sunday the 31th of July 2022 the Amiga Club Osnabrück and the Amiga Club Steinfurt are celebrating another hardware meeting in Hörstel, Germany.

Please note that, depending on the Corona situation at time, I may cancel the event on short term. Health has priority here. I ask for your understanding here.

Gather up-to-date information on MorphOS, get official support, see new software or just have fun talking with the developers and users.

The new version introduces drag & drop support within a page and fixes scroller positioning after switching tabs.

Bigfoot has opened a bounty to improve the OpenGL support and add new drivers for Radeon graphics cards. The bounty consists of a total of five projects:

1. Implement the fixed-function OpenGL pipeline as shaders
2. Framebuffer objects
3. Shaders
4. Programs
5. R600 driver

Please consider supporting this project at the link below which has full details:
https://tinygl.molsen.co.za/

Wayfarer 3.7 is now available from wayfarer.icu

The new build significantly improves media playback. Several memory management problems have been fixed that ended up causing out-of-memory situations when playing longer media streams. Seeking for MediaSource media has been completely rewritten to be a lot more reliable.

RevFlex is a utility for developers to automatically update version, revision and build numbers. RevFlex is designed to be very flexible. It should be possible to configure it to be used with almost any programming language.

To celebrate Hollywood's 20th anniversary this year, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with another massive release: This time we are proud to present the brand-new version 6.0 of our famous Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer 6.0 is a full-blown multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world!

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of a number of add-ons for Hollywood 9.1. The following add-ons are now available for download from the official Hollywood portal:

• Hollywood Player 9.1 for all supported platforms
  
• Hollywood SDK 9.1
  
• Hollywood 9.1 add-on for Cubic IDE
  
• Hollywood 9.1 wordfile for UltraEdit
  
• Hollywood 9.1 online reference manual
  
• Hollywood SDK 9.1 online reference manual
  

The release of these add-ons completes the Hollywood 9.1 release. Please visit the official Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ for download and more information.

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After almost a year of its original release, the first major update has been finally released!

Though most aspects have been further improved, we took extra care on the "Data Disks" section and now, for the first time in the Amiga scene ever, we are offering the complete experience for all World and Euro cups: select your Team directly from the application's menu and relive or rewrite golden moments of football history with historical accurate teams, groups and rules, thus bringing RASTP on par with SWOS 2020 DIY DLC on the PC!

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.17. This release includes numerous important performance, stability and security improvements. X5000 hardware support was improved to handle two Radeon cards and the HDD activity LED. Several text layout and rendering issues have been fixed in MUI.

For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.17, 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 3.17 is available for download in our files section.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 9.1. This is a maintenance release which contains mostly bug fixes amid a few new features. It is available free of charge for all customers who bought a Hollywood 9.0 license and can be downloaded from the restricted download area using the personalized user accounts.

Hi all!

Monotype/Linotype (the company I work for) has just released a free Font Value Pack for all MorphOS/AmigaOS operating systems. You can find it here:

linotype.com/8238750/MorphOSValuePack-product.html

All you need to do is to "buy" it (for 0 USD/EUR) and then download it. The package contains a wide variety of typefaces - I created this package with the intent of giving MorphOS more options when it comes to creating basically anything. I believe this selection should give us the ability to cover most typographic needs.

Hope you all enjoy it! Do let me have some feedback!

Pike

Wayfarer 3.2 is now available!

The new version introduces support for WOFF/WOFF2 fonts, improves support for ligatures and fixes a few minor quirks.

https://wayfarer.icu