Carsten Siegner has released a beta version of "Bluepaint",‏ a basic vector graphic program for MorphOS. It can load and save ".odg"-files as well as save in SVG, Postscript and PDF. In order to run the software, users need MorphOS 2.x, RxMUI, LhA, ZIP, Unzip and gzip.

Link: Download

sananaman has published a report about his experiences while installing MorphOS on a Mac mini. His review includes an extensive amount of screenshots. The original comments are in Dutch but a reasonably good machine translation is available below as well.

Link: Dutch original
Link: English translation

Fabien Coeurjoly has just released version 1.5 of his OWB port for MorphOS.

Notable changes include the following:

• Added Locale support
• Some GUI elements are now draggable/droppable
• Optional Favicon support. They are displayed in tabs, history panel, bookmark, bookmark panel and quicklinks.
• Added save/restore session menu entries in project menu.
• Made restore session requester at startup optional.
• Added password manager for auth and forms (for forms, enable "save form credentials" in options).
• Added history sidepanel.
• Made bookmark sidepanel update faster.
• Added "History" pulldown menu with recently visited entries and recently closed tabs submenu.
• OWB SVN r1092.
• Curl 7.19.6.
• and many more....

See the OWB.readme file for a full list of all changes.

Download: http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/

The Amiga Club Hamburg has set up a web camera and provides a live feed from the Amiga Meeting Nord 2009 in Bad Bramstedt. The event will be open to visitors until Sunday.

Link: http://www.amile.de/amigaclubhamburg/c/club/meeting/webcam/index.html

Stefan Kleinheinrich (Kronos) has posted two photos made at the event on late Friday evening. They show an eMac running a development version of MorphOS and a Mac mini that features a subtle, but interesting case modification.

Link: http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php‏p=290674#post290674

Following the release of MorphOS 2.4 for the Mac Mini, I have prepared a small PDF explaining how to install MorphOS along with Mac OS X on the Mac Mini on the same hard drive.

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Update:</span> A new version of the document has been published which includes additional information.</span>

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.4, the first ever public version to install on Mac mini G4 machines. 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 Mac mini G4 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 2.4 is available for download in our files section.

In related news, MorphOS 2.4 will be demonstrated at the upcoming Amiga Meeting in Bad Bramstedt. Interested users will be able to pay and register MorphOS at the event.

Keymap.sbar (Screenshot) is a plugin for the screen titlebar and allows comfortable switching between multiple keymaps without having to open MorphOS' System Preferences each time.

Features

• Support for MorphOS and legacy (AmigaOS 3.1) keymaps
  
• A configurable keymap selection
  
• Beautiful hand-pixeled images in two sizes (automatically chosen depending on screen titlebar height) for each known MorphOS and legacy keymap
  
• Hotkeys for opening the quick selection menu and for cycling between activated keymaps
  
• Quick launching of Keystroke for character overview and selection
  
• Fully localized.
  

OSNews.com reviewed MorphOS 2 on EFIKA. The full review can be found on their site: http://www.osnews.com/story/22315/MorphOS_2_3_EFIKA

For Immediate Release

Chicago, Illinois ‏ September 24th, 2009

While we can't discount the current price of Aladdin 4D ($99) we do have an interesting offer for you. Purchase the current version of Aladdin 4D 5.0 from now until October 5th, 2009 and get a free upgrade to Aladdin 4D 6.0 on the platform of your choice when it ships. For example MorphOS 2.x. Aladdin 4D 5.0 will be available as a instant download with PDF manual once you purchase it.

DigiBooster 3 development has been resumed after a vacation break. While it has been demonstrated that the program skeleton is working on both MorphOS and AmigaOS 4, and the player engine, the heart of any music tracker, was mature enough to release it inside DigiRoller, there are still substantial features missing...

The first one of them just implemented is instrument loading...

New version of SCANdal 1.2 (Betascan frontend) for MorphOS has been released.
Version for other systems will be released in a few days.

Download: http://aminet.net/driver/other/scandal.lha
SCANdal in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch‏v=aIiIEwp_RVM

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 :

- Amiga/MorphOS news of july/august 2009.
- News‏: update on AROS.
- Interview with Hugues Nouvel (Amiga developer Amiga, organizator of Amiga parties).
- Interview with Wayne Hunt (from Amiga.org).
- ...

NoWinED is a MUI-based TextEditor that can handle more files simultaneously,
using different "pages" for each file.[...]
NoWinED has born to be a portable MUI program, and in fact it exists for every
Amiga flavour (OS3.x, OS4, MorphOS, AROS).

You find it on aminet or on its homepage:

http://shinkuro.altervista.org/amiga/software/nowined.htm

CPUGauge is a screenbar plugin for MorphOS and displays the current CPU load as a smooth sliding gauge in the screen title.

Requirements: MorphOS 2.0 or higher
Changes for V1.3:

- Now uses SA_ScreenbarSignal for its timer in order to prevent the Public Screen Manager task running out of signals due to CPUGauge running on too many screens.
- Fixed a bug that made CPUGauge crash when the timer was not created (Fabien Coeurjoly).
- Small adjustment to localisation: Changed "Opacity" to "Visibility" and "Undurchsichtigkeit" to "Sichtbarkeit" in the german catalog.

Download CPUGauge V1.3 HERE

MouseEyes are watching you prevaricate. AmigaZeux present at least someone to watch over you lonely people out there. With this harmless looking screenbar plugin that displays fun, user-configurable eyes that apparently look at and follow the mouse pointer no matter where it goes. But through this we can actually spy into your room, through your computer screen, and give details of your underwear to Genesi's guerilla marketing arm. This is secret information and you users won't know about it.



Requirements: MorphOS 2.0 or higher


Download MouseEyes V1.0 HERE

Chicago, Illinois ‏ August 25th, 2009
For Immediate Release

Programmers have requested more complete and example code from Open Video Toaster. This has always been available via a $9.95 CD-ROM that was shipped by snail mail. Coders wanted something faster so in an effort to appease their instant gratification request DiscreetFX has now made this CD-ROM available via a instant down-loadable ISO image. The cost still remains $9.95 since this is a big file and our server is going to take a hit with lots of downloads. This change in policy should get the complete Amiga Video Toaster Flyer source to many more coders especially overseas programmers that never really got to enjoy the Video Toaster on their Amiga's.

The magazine Obligement have published a review of the new released version 2.3 of MorphOS.

The article in french : http://obligement.free.fr/articles/morphos23.php
The article in english (automatic translation) : http://translate.google.fr/translate‏u=http%3A%2F%2Fobligement.free.fr%2Farticles%2Fmorphos23.php&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8

MemoryGauge is a screenbar plugin for MorphOS and displays all kinds of memory information as a gauge in the screen title.

Requirements: MorphOS 2.0 or higher

CPUGauge is a screenbar plugin for MorphOS and displays the current CPU load as a smooth sliding gauge in the screen title.

Requirements: MorphOS 2.0 or higher

MemoryGauge is a screenbar plugin for MorphOS and displays all kinds of memory information as a gauge in the screen title.

Requirements: MorphOS 2.0 or higher

Download MemoryGauge V1.0 HERE

Press release: "Sick of MorphOS being so much faster than the rest‏ No‏ Well, CPUGauge will help you enjoy it to the max!

Besides this, CPUGauge is a screenbar plugin for MorphOS and displays the current CPU load as a smooth sliding gauge in the screen title. Requirements: MorphOS 2.x (a system that can unpack a small lha in less than four minutes.) Download CPUGauge V1.0 HERE."

The magazine Obligement published today a benchmark comparison of AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 2.3 running on a Pegasos II. The overall comparisons is based on 20 benchmark categories, which include boot time, processor, 3D, USB, IDE hard disk, WarpOS emulation, 68k emulation, etc. No subjective comparison was made, all benchmarks are based strictly on numbers.

The article was written in French but very easy to understand. You may read it at http://obligement.free.fr/articles/amigaos41_vs_morphos23.php

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.3, a free update for users of MorphOS 2.2, 2.1 and 2.0. In addition to numerous bug fixes, MorphOS 2.3 includes additional optimizations and new features such as configuration options for the MorphOS display engine, useful utilities for the screen bar and read-only support for HFS+ formatted volumes. For an overview of the included changes, please read our release notes.

A description of the hardware requirements and installation procedures can be found here. MorphOS 2.3 is available for download in our files section.

Marian "MaaG" Guc has updated his AutoDocReader tool, which is primarily useful for developers. Version 1.6 is available for download at the link below.

Download

An anonymous sponsor came forward to support the cost for adding Sunday, October 18, 2009 to the long-running AmiWest event in Sacramento, California (USA). For additional informational information, please visit this website.

Just wanted you to know that newest Amitopia TV is out. This show contains News,
Guides and Musicvideos.

www.amitopiatv.com

Later this week I will release parts of the show on YouTube.

Another barrier is falling in extending the capabilities of Amiga-like systems. Fab Coeurjoly added Flash video support to his already great port of OWB browser for MorphOS. A screenshot:

http://fabportnawak.free.fr/swfdec-owb-plugin.png

He used "swfdec" to implement the feature but mentioned that it is very slow currently.

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 ... (Click on Read More for the full text.)