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!

A MorphOS Development Wiki has been established.

The goal of this Wiki is to collect and provide development information for everyone who is interested in developing software for MorphOS primarily in the C/C++ language and APIs.

For those familiar with Tiki Wiki, you are aware of it's (overwhelming at times) power. Therefore, a second goal of this site, is to provide a clean, cut down Wiki that is easy to navigate and with minimal distracting bells and whistles. In most cases many features will not be included on the site if they exist in other places, for instance, Forums will take advantage of synergies that already exist in the MorphOS community (i.e. MorphZone). Other programming language Wiki's already have been established such as Python and FreePascal, etc.

Please consider registering and contributing your knowledge so that we can grow the MorphOS developer base:

http://www.ezcyberspace.com/mos-dev/

Thanks,
IKE

Guillaume - Yomgui - ROGUEZ has released the Python language port in 2.5.4 version.

To celebrate that, he also released a Python module name PyMUI that give an easy way to develop MUI user interface, directly in Python scripts, like WxPython does for external example. And it's not finished: to celebrate PyMUI, a Proof-Of-Concept named Gribouillis is also released by the same author.Gribouillis a (currently) simple drawing application with the special feature to not limit your drawing in size: borderless painting.‏ And to celebrate Gribouillis... no, that's quite enough for now

So, get all the related installation instructions and downlad the respective archives on his development wiki page (translated in English) that can be found at the following address:

http://www.yomgui.fr/yiki/doku.php/en:dev:start

Enjoy

Hi guys, this is mainly a bugfix release, I suggest you to update your NoWinED installation with this one :)

As usual, read changelog for changes: LINK
You can download it from Aminet: DOWNLOAD

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

The magazine Obligement published an interview with Mark Olsen, member of the MorphOS development team. Mark is perhaps best known for his Quake 3 port, 3D drivers work and recently the port of MorphOS on Mac mini G4.

The interview is available here: http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwolsen_en.php
A French translation can be found here: http://obligement.free.fr/articles/itwolsen.php

OnyxSoft releases four updates of software!

Annotate, WiiLoader, GummiSurf and ZoomIT


Updated programs:

Annotate v2.6.4 - (OS3,OS4,MOS) A very comprehensive text editor with a lot of functions. Ported to AmigaOS 3.x and MorphOS! Added a Find next change/Find previous change function to the Search menu. Fixed copying of a line to the find or replace field with a vertical selection. And other minor fixing..

WiiLoader v1.2 - (MOS,OS4) WiiLoader is a utility to load .DOL and .ELF-files over network to the Homebrew Channel. Now works with HBC 1.05 and later. AppIcon / AppWindow functionality (drag'n'dropable). Made the program singletasking to be able to "wake it" if iconified by start it twice. New icons made by Martin 'Mason' Merz added.

GummiSurf v1.4 - (MOS,OS4) GummiSurf is a companion tool for the download managers like Charon, and built-in managers in IBrowse, Voyager and AWeb. Added AmigaOS3 binaries. Support for OWB (MorphOS) and NetSurf (OS4). Changed the default URL to a working one =)

ZoomIT v1.1 - (MOS,AROS,OS3,OS4) Magnifying glass program using MUI. Fixed the borderless window function. Now includes locale support (and a swedish catalog). Added Crosshair option. Added Mouse coordinate and RGB-Value options. Borderless windows are now also draggable by simply pressing anywhere on them.

If you know a bug or have a suggestion, please don't hesitate to drop us an e-mail

Emerald Games have backported HyperCannon 1.0 from the iPhone to MorphOS. According to the developer, it runs much smoother thanks to the included TinyGL support.

Features:

• 3D rendered visuals
• many levels of gameplay
• fully animated graphics
• responsive touch controls
• huge number of onscreen objects
• awesome weapons and powerups
• arcade and survival modes
• massive end of level bosses
• highscore table
• also available for iPhone + iPodTouch

Requirements: Pegasos, Efika or Mac Mini system with 3D graphics hardware that is supported by TinyGL. Playing via gamepad (USB or gameport)‏ is recommended. In terms of software, you need either MorphOS 1.4 or 2.x and lowlevel.library. AHI is used for sound output. If you experience problems, try increasing the number of sound channels (to at least 10).

Amitopia TV is once again back with another show for you. It contains mixed content. A highlight of this month's episode is a short MorphOS presentation held by Mark 'bigfoot' Olsen at the Amiga Meeting event in Bad Bramstedt.

Download it here:
Amitopia TV 23rd of October<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(720x576 - Format: MP4 - Size: 284MB)

Thorsten Mampel submitted the following report to amiga-news.de. It contains information about upcoming MorphOS features and new third-party software developments.