Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has updated his MorphOS port of the Origyn Web Browser. This web browser is based on the powerful WebKit engine which is also used by Apple's Safari or Google's Chrome.

Version 1.2 is available in three editions, namely the full browser (owb-morphos-1.2.lha), a version without SVG support (owb-morphos-1.2-nosvg.lha) and "OWB Lite" which excludes support for SVG and for codepages other than UTF-8 and Latin-1. The two extra editions are primarily intented to be used on systems that feature only low amounts of memory (Efika).

System requirements:‏
MorphOS 2.x is strongly recommended but it can still work on a 1.4.x setup if a recent MUI snapshot (2007) is installed. The full browser requires about 5MB of disk space and at least 35MB of free system memory. (The No-SVG and Lite editions of OWB may require different amounts of disk space and system memory.)

New MorphOS Easter Eggs site was launched today! Explore MorphOS 2 secrets!

Due to technical reasons, the long-running MorphOS Developer Connection website had to be closed. We apologize for any inconveniences this might cause. Please rest assured that most files that could be downloaded from the MDC portal will eventually be moved to the official MorphOS Team website and made available without a mandatory registration.

Future discussions about developing for MorphOS, on the other hand, can be had in the new and improved MorphZone Developer Forums, which complement the established MorphOS mailing list and the #morphos channel on the FreeNode IRC network.

PowerDev #6 was held in Lublin, Poland, on March 28 - 29, 2009. The event featured a series of workshops and presentations about topics such as the multimedia framework Reggae, the music application DigiBooster, the Origyn Web Browser, and Ambient, the MorphOS desktop.

The team of organizers has published the following photo and video galleries:
Photo Gallery‏ - Video Gallery

Visitors of the event have provided the following photos:
Gallery 1 - Gallery 2

Airsoft Softwair is the developer of Hollywood, an extremely flexible and powerful Multimedia Application Layer, which can be used for many different purposes due to the inbuilt script language. Other products belonging to the Hollywood product line are the popular Hollywood Designer, a modern presentation editor, and Malibu, a plugin that allows Hollywood to show Scala presentations.

Airsoft Softwair kindly ask for participation in their poll regarding the future of Hollywood and Hollywood designer, which includes questions about your hardware, software, and desired features. You can access the poll here.

Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has released a new version of Helios, a Firewire stack for MorphOS. You can download the achive here. The archive also includes SDK files for third-party developers who are interested to create applications that utilize the Helios library.

Please click on "Read More" for additional details.

After a long period of silent development, a new version of Scalos, an alternative to the Ambient desktop of MorphOS, is now available. In addition to many bugfixes and language packs for French and German, it also includes improvements such as transparent windows or video thumbnails.

Link: Version History
Link: Download

The "Annuaire Amiga & Pegasos Francophone" (French Speaking Users of Amiga & Pegasos Listing), lists french Amiga & Pegasos users but it's also a great communication media for our community. Here is a small calendar of Amiga events that will be held in March and April in France or near :

- 13 to 15 March : Numerica ArtParty #2 (Montb‏liard, 25, France)
- 28 and 29 March : Les AmiG‏teries (Villers-les-Pots, 21, France)
- 28 and 29 March : Niffo's Bouffe (Nantes, 44)
- 4 April, 14h-17h : AMF's reunion (Lausanne, Suisse)
- 18 April : Triple A's AmigaBouffe (Cl‏rieux, 26, France)
- 18 and 19 April : AC 2009 (Congis-sur-Th‏rouanne, 77, France

The Amiga Future issue 77 (March/April 2009) has been released today, which includes a review of MorphOS 2.2. All preorders and subscriptions will be shipped today.

The German issues 47 of Amiga Future are out of stock. You can read the magazines (amongst many other issues) online at http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php‏mode=cat&cat=10 .

We are looking for translators fluent in reading/writing German and English for Amiga Future magazine.‏ Please contact us via mail at: Andreas@amigafuture.de

Airsoft Softwair are proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4: VideoUp. This is a major update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 3. The biggest new feature is that Hollywood can now export AVI videos. Now MorphOS users can for the first time create high quality video presentations with only a few mouse clicks - on their MorphOS system with Hollywood.

After several months of work, your distributor of Amiga Software & Hardware RELEC is pleased to announce the opening of its new web showcase, always at the same address: http://www.relec.ch

Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has updated his MorphOS port of the Origyn Web Browser. This web browser is based on the powerful WebKit engine which is also used by Apple's Safari or Google's Chrome.

Version 1.1 is available in three editions, namely the full browser (owb-morphos-1.1.lha), a version without SVG support (owb-morphos-1.1-nosvg.lha) and "OWB Lite" which excludes support for SVG and for codepages other than UTF-8 and Latin-1. The two extra editions are primarily intented to be used on systems that feature only low amounts of memory (Efika).

System requirements:‏
MorphOS 2.x is strongly recommended but it can still work on a 1.4.x setup if a recent MUI snapshot (2007) is installed. The full browser requires about 5MB of disk space and at least 35MB of free system memory. (The No-SVG and Lite editions of OWB may require different amounts of disk space and system memory.)

A preview and excerpts from Amiga Future Issue 77 (March/April 2009) are now available on the magazine's website. This issue includes a review of MorphOS 2.2.

APC&TCP is looking for people who are willing test alpha releases of Digibooster Professional 3.

The real time strategy game Homeworld have won the AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2008. It precede Jagged Alliance 2 and Command And Conquer : Red Alert.

All results can be seen here : http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2008.php

We have worked on the extension of the Amiga Future database for the past months.
By now it contains about 3000 articles for online reading.

This week we added some workshops and an up-to-date article about astronomy photography by Mirko Strau‏.

http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php‏mode=article&k=3168

To extend the database even further we look for English and German articles. There were lots of websites offering reviews and workshops. Many of them diappeared unfortunately together with their valuable content. We would like to offer this kind of information online again.

Have you made a homepage with such articles which isn't online anymore‏ Or did you write something yourself‏ Then please contact us at the editorial office.

http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php
http://www.amigafuture.de
http://www.apc-tcp.de

Fabien "Fab" Coeurjoly has successfully ported the Origyn Web Browser to MorphOS after about three weeks of work. This web browser is based on the powerful WebKit engine which is also used by Apple's Safari or Google's Chrome.


System requirements:‏
MorphOS 2.x is strongly recommended but it can still work on a 1.4.x setup if a recent MUI snapshot (2007) is installed. The browser requires about 4MB of disk space and at least 35MB of free system memory. If you are an Efika user and you are in need of a stripped down version, please contact the author. (He might disable SVG support for you.)

The highlights of Fabien's implementation are as follows:

• Based on GaleKid 1.0 OWB Branch (December 2008)
• Javascript, CSS, DOM, SVG, Unicode, SSL, ...
• Antialiased fonts and kerning, font families and support for international charsets
• MUI Interface
• Cairo technology !!1
• Multiple tabs and windows
• Download manager
• Bookmarks
• Fastlinks
• Context menus
• Copy/Cut/Paste
• Rexx port (openurl support)
• No paypal donation needed

Download it here.

Each year you can vote for the best AmigaOS/MorphOS game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2008 !

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/award2008.php

The final results will be published wednesday 4th February.

Guillaume "Yomgui" Roguez has released a first version of Helios, a Firewire stack for MorphOS. You can download the achive at the Aminet website. The archive also includes SDK files for third-party developers who are interested to create applications that utilize the Helios library.

Please click on "Read More" for additional details.

The development of the new DBPro3 is slowly but steadily taking shape.

Our first goal is and was to code the whole program completly new to get more structure in order to improve and be more efficient.

Furthermore, the handling is the same as in DBPro2.x. The current development status is the internal version Alpha 17th.

In the next 3-4 months, we will give you a very detailed status update and we hope to release a beta-demoversion. We want to emphasize again, that can not give you more further details. We do not want to pledge that we will not keep that promise.

http://www.digiboosterpro.de

The "Amiga Games List" (http://obligement.free.fr/articles/listejeuxamiga.php), maintained by David Brunet since april 1991 has been updated in its 38th edition. About 850 new entries have been added, the total now reach 13528 entries distributed as follows :

- 12416 games.
- 953 datas.
- 125 gamesor levels editors.
- 34 interpreters.

There are <span style="font-weight: bold;">296 MorphOS native games</span>.

First release in 2009 is out!

Content:
Amitopia TV News
3D games on Amiga
VLC review (MorphOS)
TvPaint guide part 2

The MorphOS development team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year.


As the first release of 2009, we have prepared an update pack for the now out-of-date MorphOS 1.4.x which includes various minor improvements. Most notably, the archive includes several libraries that are required to stay compatible with new software releases, such as future Ambient versions and applications relying on PowerSDL, as many developers continue to migrate to MorphOS 2.x.

The Update Pack for MorphOS 1.4.x is available for download in our files section. To install the update, unpack the archive and copy all files to your system partition. Please take special note that this update is not intented to be installed on MorphOS 2.x or higher.

Tthe French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement (http://obligement.free.fr) published various new articles in the past two months. For a full list, please click "Read More" and visit their website.

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.2, a free update for users of MorphOS 2.1 and 2.0. In addition to numerous bug fixes, MorphOS 2.2 includes additional optimizations and new features such as Kryptos, a disk encryption suite. 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 2.2 is available for download in our files section.

VICE 2.1 has been released.

VICE is the Versatile Commodore Emulator, it emulates the Commodore C64,
C128, VIC20, PET, PLUS4 and the CBM-II, as well as the C64 DTV, and it
runs on Win32, Unix, DOS, RiscOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, SkyOS, AmigaOS and
GP2X systems.

VICE is *free* software released under the GNU General Public License,
and as such it comes with full source code.

Fans of high quality audio can now try out the flac.player for AmiNetRadio. The decoder is linked against the latest public libFLAC and supports 16bit stereo files. Song info metadata is supported.

The plugin is available in two flavors: for AltiVec and non-AltiVec CPUs. Requires MorphOS 2.1.

Download from: http://binaryriot.org/dreamolers

Amiga Future 76 (Januar/Februar 2009) Preview Online

The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 76 (Januar/Februar 2009) are online now.