Sudoku solver Sudominator has been updated to version 0.2. The most important change is a feature of saving and loading puzzles. A few example sudoku have been added to the distribution. Extended configurability includes user adjustable sudoku field foreground color and effect of the active field highlighting. A few spotted bugs have been fixed as well. Full archive including source code is available in our download section.

Geit reports: "Here is a collection of images taken at the PowerDev #8 in September 2010 in our convention center. PowerBook and PowerMac systems running MorphOS were shown. Even the old PowerMac with 400 Mhz and Rage128 graphics card makes a good impression of the usability. MorphOS simply is fast on any hardware. PowerMac support will be released with MorphOS 2.6.

Of course we had a wide range of hardware running. Pegasos1, Pegasos2, Efika, yA1, AmigaOne, A2000 and several MacMinis were used during the meeting. Beside hardware there also was the software. A sneak preview of the new Ambient panel system was shown which has some quite unique features. These new panels will replace the old ones in future Ambient versions. Also, a sneak preview of MagicAction was shown. It is a MorphOS adapted version of the well known Automator. Furthermore, the new MorphOS scanner application and driver system Scandal was demoed to the audience by using an Epson scanner. It is a rather nice piece of software and even the transparency unit worked.

We had alot of fun and interesting topics to discuss during the entire meeting. And it was nice to see several new software products getting ready for being released. A small museum with old hardware was shown at the entrance. There was even a Busch 2090 4 Bit computer (CPU: TMS 1600) with 768 byte of system memory, which worked the whole 72 hours without a crash. Not bad for a 27 year old computer system!

Another highlight was MorphOS playing 3D movies on the Pegasos2 system using a 3D display and proper glasses."

Link: Event Summary

IceFileSystem 2.0 has been released and features at least 387% more frozen awesomeness. Get it while it's cool!

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ChocolateCastle is a template source code generator for MUI and Reggae classes. Current version generates C sources for internal classes, linked with the main program. The class skeleton code is customized with nice, MUI based graphical interface. Generating Reggae classes is a new feature of version 0.6. The program is distributed with source code and may be downloaded from the download section.

The English and German issue 86 (September/October 2010) of the print magazine Amiga Future has been released today and can be ordered directly at the editorial office and the Amiga dealers.

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Content</span>: Reviews of A/Nes Pro, Gianas Return, <span style="font-weight: bold;">MorphOS 2.5</span>, Timberwolf and many more. Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko, report of Amiga Event Essen, report of VCF UK, workshops and much more. A more detailed description of content and excerpts can be found at the Amiga Future hompepage.

For the third year in a row I will be demonstrating the latest version of MorphOS2.x at the AmiWest 2010 Show in October. This year I will have four computers running MorphOS2.5 (or greater), including my Efika (which I am working on putting in a new and interesting case w/monitor), 1.5GHz G4 MacMini, 1.25GHz G4 eMac, and Dual 1.25GHz G4 MDD PowerMac. I have also been asked to run the Amiga Game Competition again for this year's AmiWest 2010 Show and have decided to donate the 1.25GHz G4 eMac running the demo version of MorphOS2.5 as the grand prize to the winner of the competition. So, if you like playing Amiga games and can make it to Sacramento, CA in October, come to AmiWest 2010 Show and have a chance to win yourself a 1.25GHz eMac to run MorphOS on.

I hope to see some of you at the show, please introduce yourself.

David W. Morris
aka AmigaDave
Efficient by Design

The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the past two months : A news summary for July / August 2010, a review of Fortis, a review of Giana's Return and, last but not least, a review of IceFileSystem 1.13.

Sudominator is a fast GUI based sudoku puzzle solver. It uses optimized brute-force algorithm, so it can solve any sudoku, assuming it is resolvable at all. The program offers sudoku validation, instant solving, as well as live solving showing every step of algorithm at a rate of 40 to 50 steps per second. Full source code included. Sudominator can be downloaded from our downloads section.

After more than 5 Years and several gaps where the page wasn't available, Geit.de was switched off in August this year. Countless people asked about the reason and showed that this site is regularily being visited by community members.

Geit.de changed server and domain provider during the last month and was only available through a fall back home server. But this period was used constructively. It all started with a new logo and ended with a complete make over of all 100 (!!) pages found at Geit.de. Some sections were enhanced, reworked and improved. Thanks to the new look and design future changes and providing new content will be much easier.

The multi-track audio recording and editing software Audio Evolution 4 is now available for MorphOS! With almost identical features to the AmigaOS4 and AROS version, it allows non-linear and non-destructive editing of 16-bit audio, real-time effect processing, automation, multi-track playback and much more. Visit the Audio Evolution website for more information, download the demo or buy it now for only 49 euro!

Many thanks go out to the MorphOS developer team who helped me out tremendously with getting my hardware up and running and solving software issues!

Carsten Siegner has published a video preview of Magical Ink, a new vector paint application that is similar to Inkscape and runs on MorphOS 2.5. The software can import OpenOffice Draw, Microsoft Word (97), SVG documents as well as common text and bitmap graphics files. Currently, it can also export to the PDF, SVG, PNG and EPS file formats.

Link: YouTube

A new version of the 64bit file system IceFS has been released. It contains various bug fixes. Existing users are strongly advised to upgrade.

The pack Ultimate 1.6.1 for MorphOS 2.5 is now available.

In preparation of the beta release of Audio Evolution 4 for MorphOS, I have ported my Envy24HT AHI driver to MorphOS! It supports the following cards: Terratec Aureon Sky/Space, Phase 22/28, M-Audio Revolution 5.1/7.1 and ESI Juli@.

Please visit http://www.audio-evolution.com/drivers_mos for more information.

Special thanks to Frank Mariak for his continuous support for getting my PowerMac working, my gfx card(s) and with debugging my Envy24HT driver!

Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has released yet another version of Origyn Web Browser for MorphOS. You can download version 1.9 via the following website: http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/

The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 86 (September/October 2010) are now online.

Highlights in this issue: Interview with Petro Tyschtschenko, hardware review ZorRAM, <span style="font-weight: bold;">software reviews of MorphOS 2.5</span>, Timberwolf, Gianas Return...

The MorphOS VNCServer was just updated with better support for Enhanced Display screens. Get it from http://dreamolers.binaryriot.org/vncserver/

IceFileSystem 1.13 released

IceFileSystem is 64bit disk filesystem supporting a high number of useful features, such as...

The MorphOS version of Encore Games' action shooter title "Fortis" has been updated to version number 1.1.

The full version of the game is available here.

The French website www.meta-morphos.org is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a beta version of Ultimate pack 1.6.0 for MorphOS 2.5. This pack will allow you to quickly and effortlessly obtain a more complete MorphOS environment. Included features are: Mail, chat, calendar, address book, music and video players, drawing software, photo organizer, E-UAE integration in Ambient and GetVideo integration in OWB (via contextual menu), and much more.

Several MorphOS development team members will be present in Essen on Saturday, July 24, 2010. They will demonstrate the latest version of MorphOS on various hardware platforms. The developers will be looking forward to meet all interested visitors.

Link: Amiga Meeting

lzmaLoader 1.2 has been released. lzmaLoader is a simple executable packer for MorphOS. It is mainly targeted for cases where extremely small executable file size is required (scene intros mostly).

Version 1.2 adds a hand optimized 380 byte shared loader which can be used when the compressed binary targets MorphOS 2.5 (or newer) systems.

The following MorphOS related articles have been added to the website of the french magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months :

- Amiga/MorphOS news of may/june 2010.
- Interview with Frederic Boisdron (director of Robootic).
- Review of MorphOS 2.5.
- File : MorphOS beginner's guide (update).
- Tutorial : installation of MorphOS 2.5.
- Tutorial : Rival.
- Tutorial : MorphVectrex.

Rendez-vous on http://obligement.free.fr for this nice reading.
All translations are welcome. Please contact me for more info.

The very first release of a plug-in SDK for the applications Sketch and Scandal has been published.. If you are a developer, you can now create your own effect plug-in  for these two applications. You can download the SDK archive from here. 

Please make sure to read the included documentation / source comments and then compile, compile, compile.

Requirements:
-MorphOS SDK 2 must be installed
-Knowledge about graphics programming
-Free time

We will be looking forward to test your plug-ins!

Fortis game for MorphOS has been finished and released. It is old school shooter wrapped in flashy 3D art and FX. More details about the Fortis for MorphOS, screenshots and video-trailer (see on YouTube or download AVI/XviD) available on Encore Games website.

The MorphOS development team would like to announce that the MorphOS Software Development Kit 2 has left the beta state. All developers who are interested to upgrade their existing MorphOS development infrastructure will need a computer running the recently finished MorphOS 2.5 and at least 300 MB of free disk space.

The latest release of the MorphOS SDK 2 includes the following changes:

• Improved MorphEd compatibility when invzeropage is enabled
• Added minor improvements to the documentation
• Added a convenient update mode to the installer
• Increased the amount of example source code

You can download the MorphOS SDK 2 in our files section.

Back in the days Nuance released a musicdisk-series for classic Amigas called Trilobyte. They released 11 issues, and now after ten years they are back with issue #12!

Download it from morphos-files.net:  click here

The MorphOS development team would like to announce the immediate availability of the MorphOS Software Development Kit 2. This first release is officially in beta state and will be followed up by updates in the near future. Developers who would like to test the software development kit will need a computer running the recently finished MorphOS 2.5 and at least 300 MB of free disk space.

Notable features of the MorphOS SDK 2 are as follows:

• MorphED with MUI-centric quickhelp (shows syntax of MUI methods, MUI special values for an attribute, etc)
• GCC 2.95.3 compiler with AltiVec support and C++ enhancements
• GCC 4.4.4 compiler
• MUI, Reggae and System documentation in text and aguide formats
• Example source code
• Development utilities: logtool and Wipeout
• Complete GeekGadgets environment
• Easy to use installer

You can download the MorphOS SDK 2 in our files section