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

Gish MorphOS port released.

This is fast port of next multiplatform arcade game. If you want to play it, download MorphOS port from here then go and buy original game from site. Install with using original data files and have fun.

You can find more information from here.

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.5, the fifth new OS version since the debut of MorphOS 2.0 in the same month two years ago. MorphOS 2.5 finally adds the Apple eMac to its list of officially supported platforms. In addition to the extended hardware support, existing users will benefit from various bug fixes and a few new features. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.

We strongly urge owners of eMac computers to carefully read our installation and troubleshoot 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 2.5 is available for download in our files section.

Encore Games is proud to announce the premiere of its new game - FORTIS. The game is based on classical shooter scheme although presented in new 3D environment. Full version of the game should be out some time in May, but you can check the video-trailer today!

AmiTwitter is a small program for MorphOS and AmigaOS which allows you to interact in many ways with the Twitter and TwitPic networks. It has many features and, in fact, it has more features than almost all open source Twitter clients that are currently available for other operating systems and in other programming languages.

Airsoft Softwair is proud to annouce that the coolest multimedia application on the Amiga planet is now available in a brand-new version. Hollywood 4.7 is another quality release brought to you by Airsoft Softwair and contains some cool new features as well as bug fixes and fulfillments of some user wishes.

Another "movie made in Hollywood" is now attacking your screens. Created as my latest Hollywood3 project, BoingPairs is a simple bilingual (czech/english) game of pairs for MorphOS. The only thing that makes it a bit special is that it is devoted to the Amiga - in fact, this could be taken as my humble contribution to the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of our most beloved machine...
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Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski has published his new website that contains information about his past and on-going projects. To celebrate the new website, he also released a number of new software titles and updates.

The titles include...
- F1Spirit port,
-Drac card game port,
-Net Nuclear port,
-Road Fighter port,
-new Gallerius 2.41 and Titler (update from internet new version added).

The website can be found here.

A quick service release of WAManager (Picasa web albums handling application) is available. Version 1.1 fixes memory leaks occuring in photo upload process. Archive can be found HERE

Fabien Coeurjoly has just released version 1.7 of his port of the Origyn Web Browser which now supports HTML5 multimedia playback (video / audio).

Links: OWB v1.7 Full Version - Lite Edition Without SVG Support - Application Screenshot - Change Log

Fabien Coeurjoly strikes again with the release of UFO Alien Invasion, a nice clone of the good old UFO Enemy Unknown from Amiga in 1994. The game needs about 400 MB of free RAM.

The MorphOS files are here : http://fabportnawak.free.fr/misc/ufoai-2.2.1.lha
This doesn't contain datas. Read the read-me for more info.

Thomas Igracki has released CRABUM which provides a comfortable graphical user interface to manage Ambient user menus.

Links:   Website    -    Download    -    Readme     -    History

New features of this release include full localization. Catalogs that have been completed thus far: Deutsch, Espanol, Francais, Polski, Nederlands, Italiano, Greek. More are planned or in work. If you are interested in doing others please contact me. Other features that have been added to this version include number of characters typed countdown for Tweets and Direct Messages (thanks JahC!). Also new menu items include most recent Direct Message -> Sent and most recent Direct Message -> Received. The logo size has been reduced and enhanced to better represent the Operating Systems it runs on, Modern looking .png button images courtesy of Martin "Mason" Merz. International Character Support via codesets.library has been implemented! Allows for much better display particularly of international characters output. Feedback in general and donations have been few and far between...please consider making a donation or sending an email.

Files are available here for AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/amitwitter/files/

More info is available here:

http://www.ezcyberspace.com/programs/read-me-first.html

Thanks,
IKE

On February 15th 2010, the magazine Obligement have announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2009. This represents the best Amiga games voted by amigans on all Amiga platforms.

Due to popular request, there is now an official Hollywood portal online at http://www.hollywood-mal.com (MAL standing for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Multimedia application layer</span>). The portal contains everything you need to know about Hollywood and Hollywood Designer (which is exclusively available for Amiga systems!), screenshots and references, you can purchase Hollywood and Hollywood Designer at the portal, and most importantly, there is finally an official Hollywood forum to reduce the traffic on our mailing list a little. Feel free to stop by, have a look, and join the forums!

Amigan Software are proud to announce the availability of the Signetics-based machines multi-emulator AmiArcadia 13.02 for MorphOS. The previous MorphOS release was the now very obsolete V4.81. Thanks to Stefan Haubenthal for undertaking the port.

Improvements in V13.02 as compared to V4.81 are far too numerous to list, but include emulation of PIPBUG-based machines, Signetics Instructor 50, Central Data 2650, Astro Wars, Galaxia, Malzak 1 & 2 and Chaos 2, as well as support for the French, German, Italian and Russian languages.

http://amigan.1emu.net/releases/
http://amigan.yatho.com/

Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2009 !

To vote for the best AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS or AROS games, you can rate them at this page :

http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2009.php

This year there will be no "global" winner but a winner by systems (AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS).

The final results will be published Febrary 15, 2010.

Amiga-Look.org recreated from the scratch. We changed the CMS to Drupal and we now made a totally new website. We moved to a faster web server.

For those who don't know anything about amiga-look.org, it is a website for the AmigaOS, MorphOS and Aros artworks that a lot of people create. The main idea is to gather all this content into one web site, so that it could be really easy for someone to find something that he needs. Inside amiga-look.org you will find screenshots, icons, themes and many other things that you would like to use and make your workbench look better.

Also, everyone can make his own account and upload his own artworks. And we can support him with our voting system, and say how much we like it with comments.

So come on you guys, upload your icons, wallpapers, themes and lets make a websites that has them all gathered.

www.amiga-look.org

A test version of Blender 2.50 alpha0 for MorphOS is now available for download:
http://www.yomgui.fr/blender/blender-2.5alpha0-test-mos.lha

The required installation procedure is fortunately quite simple. It is a standalone archive. You just need to uncompress the content to your harddisk and run the application.

Do not hesitate to try it out, experiment and please provide feedback to the developer.

The "Amiga Games List" ( http://obligement.free.fr/articles/listejeuxamiga.php ), maintained by David Brunet since april 1991 has been updated in its 39th edition. The total now reach 11192 entries distributed as follows: 10143 games | 887 data disks or extensions | 127 games or level editors | 35 interpreters.

There are now <span style="font-style: italic;">307 native MorphOS</span> games. This 39th edition has declined since the vast majority of interpreted games (platform independent games playable via an interpreter) were removed in order to keep only pure "Amiga" games. In addition, the games created in 2009 have been added. The list recognize now also the "Creative Commons" license and the "AmiBlitz" programming language.

Version 2.0 of Titler has arrived. This powerful animation creator in alpha state but is free and can produce professional high-quality animations for titling, video editing and presentations. It has been used extensively to produce animations for the AmitopiaTV show.

This new version has great new features such as:
- animation functionality
- ability to embed flat 2D images in 3d scenes
- loading images by datatype and reggae
- save animations in formats supported by mencoder
- animated textures (avcodec)
- and more (check manual for details)

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