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)

Links: Demo Video<span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span>Screenshot 1 - Screenshot2 <span style="font-weight: bold;">- </span>Application Download<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>

Airsoft Softwair are very proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4.5 (Codename: Snowflake). This is a huge update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 4.0. In this update we paid special attention to all the wishes that reached us from the ever growing Hollywood community. We carefully listened to all these requests and tried to realize as many wishes as possible.

Among the countless new features in Hollywood 4.5 is the ability to open multiple windows with Hollywood (scripts are no longer limited to a single window!), fonts can be embedded into executables (it's no longer necessary to install them first), windows can use alpha channel transparency, hardware accelerated transition effects (only on AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 2), full clipboard support, load and save GIF animations, save AVI videos, drag' n' drop support, and much much more.

Various articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) during the last two months. The most notable ones include a tutorial on how to enhance your Mac Mini experience in general and how to boot MorphOS from a USB drive on a Mac Mini G4.

Stable release of SCANdal (scanner frontend) 1.3 is now available.

What's new:
- Autocrop (works best with LineArt mode)
- Autoconnect tooltype, Connect button
- TIFF and PDF saver
- Fixed JPEG saver
- Sketch plugins support (NOTE: do not use plugins from MorphOS 2.4, latest plugins are included in SCANdal archive, plugins don't work with 1.4.5)
- Fixed Mode list (for gt68xx d river)
- Fixed DPI Radio (for gt68xx driver)
- Settings window
- Autoincrement filenames

You can download it at http://brain.umcs.lublin.pl/~rzookol/download/scandal.lha .

The Aminet team contacted Paolo "The Alien" Cattani and were granted the permission to host and redistribute the MorphOS version of Virtual Grand Prix 2.

If you enjoy this game, please consider making a Paypal donation to: donations@virtualgrandprix2.com

When discussing the Aminet upload with the Aminet team, Mr. Cattani pointed out that even a MorphOS port of VGP3 might be considered, but that he's not promising anything and that "there are some technical issues about that".

For high resolution textures that significantly improve the looks of Virtual Grand Prix 2, have a look at Jason Frabotta's VGPHD project: http://www.siniscope.com/vgphd/

Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The first public beta release of AmiTwitter is available for immediate download here:

AmiTwitter SourceForge Download

<span style="font-weight: bold;">WAManager:</span>
WAManager is an application to help you manage Picasa Web Albums. The goal is to provide image upload, download, modification and synchronization functionality. Read more for details and screenshot

<span style="font-weight: bold;">ShowGirls:</span>
Version 1.2, besided WAManager integration, includes minor bugfix in time rendering for thumbnails, batch converter functionality extension (can process only selected images from given album).

Fabien Coeurjoly has just released version 1.6.1 of his port of the Origyn Web Browser which now includes a very powerful web profiling and debugging tool. The included changes are as follows:

1. Enabled WebInspector (Firebug-like). WebInspector allows browsing resources/scripts, profiling, debugging... It can be enabled with: "setenv OWB_ENABLE_INSPECTOR 1". When enabled, a new "inspect element" entry is added to webview contextmenus that opens the tool. Here's what it looks like: http://fabportnawak.free.fr/inspector.png

2. Avoid conflicts between regular context menus and javascript contextmenus.
3. Updated russian, swedish and czech locales.
4. Added a lame workaround in javascript interpreter that caused regressions in google maps.
5. Fixed a possible crash with priority popups in MLdonkey HTML interface.

 

Download Links: OWB v1.6.1 Full Version - Lite Edition Without SVG Support

Pawel Stefanski released version 2.40 of his HTML gallery generator Gallerius. The new version includes the following changes:
- support for ShowGirls galleries
- new logo
- option to abort the html generation process
- 2 new modes added for aspect ratio picture scaling (by width and by height)
- fixed reported bugs.

You can download Gallerius from here

Requirements: MorphOS 2.x

I'm happy to present version 1.1 of an image manipulation, and starting from this version, also image cataloging application, ShowGirls. Version 1.1 among many other changes, brings one substantial improvement. Image cataloging functionality. It allows to group images in 'virtual' catalogs (groups and albums), commenting, searching of photos in different physical disc location. Read more for other changes.

Chicago, Illinois December 12th, 2009 -- Every Christmas DiscreetFX enjoys giving away lots of prizes to the MorphOS Community. This Christmas is the best giveaway yet. We will be giving out the following items to randomly select winners that contact our sales department requesting to be in the contest via the link below

Fabien Coeurjoly has just released version 1.6 of his port of OWB. He has also released the first public version of a compatible Flash plug-in (swfdec).

Translators: Please update your translations, the developer will supply the locale archive separately.

Note: There's a known regression since r1106 (or so): maps.google.* is slightly broken (some options / buttons don't have any effect). It is a generic issue in WebKit when JIT is disabled, and it was reported to their bugtracker. Fabien will provide a new version when this is fixed.

 

Download Links: OWB v1.6 Full Version - Lite Edition Without SVG Support - Flash Plug In

OnyxSoft released an update for Annotate!

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Annotate v2.7 </span>- (OS3,OS4,MOS,AROS) A very comprehensive text editor with a lot of functions such as syntax hignlighting. Annotate can now be compiled for MUI instead of ReAction which made an AROS port possible! And it works better on MorphOS and OS3 too.
Added simple project support to be able to save the state of all opened files. It is now possible to drop icons on Ann's windows. And other fixes and improvements. Note: Annotate is also available as an auto-update if you prefer that feature :)<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>

jPV / RNO has written a very extensive review of MorphOS 2.x. that is not only informative, but also includes a series of five videos demonstrating the operating system on a Mac Mini G4. For the full review, please visit the following link:

http://jpv.wmhost.com/morphos2_review/

Videos: Performance on a Mac Mini - Ambient Desktop - Screen Bar Modules - Blankers - Window Skins

The MorphZone Team is proud to finally introduce the MorphOS Library, a new online resource that aims to collect and provide access to all there is to know about the MorphOS operating system.

If you would like to participate, please sign up as an editor using the contact information provided on the MorphOS Library's index page. We will be looking forward to your contributions.

Special thanks to Dave 'Targhan' Crawford for writing the very first texts, Andrea Maniero for updating MorphOS - The Lighting OS, Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski for his various changes, Harry 'Piru' Sintonen for the contribution of his TLSF article, Jacek Piszczek for the contribution of his Dual-boot MorphOS on A Mac Mini Guide and, last but not least, David 'amigadave' Morris who will be managing inquiries from new editors.

You can access the MorphOS Library via MorphZone's top navigation menu.

The MorphZone Team is proud to announce that MorphZone.org has now a new and improved downloads section.

The new downloads section integrates the well-established MorphOS Files software repository and makes its extensive content more easily available to all MorphZone visitors.‏ A big thanks to Grzegorz 'krashan' Kraszewski who spend a lot of time adapting the site engine behind MorphOS Files to enable a seamless integration into the MorphZone user interface.

You can access the download section via the top navigation menu. (Some of the files that used to be found in the old MorphZone download module will be moved to MorphOS Files in the days ahead.)

Diskmag about demoscene and coding on/for Amiga and Amiga-like computers. "The Vague" is the first multiplatform Warp3D-based Amiga diskmag ever!

Currently we release only Warp3D version (os3,os4,mos and aros) and in next weeks we will release online-html and aga-rtg versions.

The Desert Racing of BarDos port MorphOS has been released today. The port is a direct port of the original version and is available at APC&TCP and other dealers. There is an up-to-date demo version of Desert Racing of BarDos for the classic Amiga, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, which can be found at the support site: http://www.apc-tcp.de/support/0020.php .

This port has been tested for over 6 months on various systems. We ask all users interested to download and try out the demo version first, before buying, we feel sure you will enjoy it.

Warning: The game does not run on Efika.

Ralph Schmidt announced in the MorphZone forums that MorphOS will soon include support for Apple's PowerMac G4 range of computers. While they are not as compact and portable as Mac Minis, they are often more affordable (compared to 1.5 Ghz Mac Mini models), can be faster (1.8 Ghz G4) and offer far superior expandability options to all power users who need them.

A new version of PortablE has been released. PortablE is an AmigaE compiler, written from scratch in E, and able to compile itself. It supports Windows, Amiga OS3, OS4, AROS & MorphOS.

http://vague.lorraine-design.com

Diskmag about demoscene and coding on/for Amiga and Amiga-like computers.

"The Vague" is the first multiplatform Warp3D-based Amiga diskmag ever!