As a precursor to a more substantial SDK update to be released in the future, the MorphOS Development Team has prepared a package of MorphOS 2.1 system includes for interested third party developers. It was designed as an intermediate drop-in replacement for the os-include part found in the current version of the MorphOS SDK. Regardless of what MorphOS version you develop for, an update is beneficial in any case as the archive includes various fixes and improvements, such as support for the latest release of the VBCC compiler. 

In order to use the MorphOS 2.1 system includes, it is suggested to either replace the older archive with this one during a fresh installation of the SDK, or to extract the archive and then replace your os-include directory (Special note: do not simply copy the content). The package can be downloaded here.

ShInKurO has released a new version of his MUI based text editor called NoWinED. V0.75 it's its third public version. Looking at the archive list you can find there four amiga compilations and select the one of your flavour :)

NoWinED features:
- Handling of multiple files through tabs;
- Context menus;
- Search and replace module;
- Multiple file Drag & Drop;
- Basic texteditor features (C&P, select all, Undo, Redo, etc...);
- Usage from keyboard supported;
- Programmable Fn keys;
- UTF support;
- CR/LF/CR+LF support;
- Configurable backup of all opened files;
- Configurable AutoSave of current file;

To find more details read the ChangeLog file.

The autor mentiones NoWinED is his first Amiga program, so do not expect too much :) You can download the application and find out more about it on this website.

Pianeta Amiga Exhibit XII Edition will take place at Palaesposizioni Building in Empoli (Florence), Italy, on 27 and 28 September.

http://www.pianetaamiga.it/2008/eng/

Grab your p(h)ants... again!


Elephant 1.2

The Ultimative Update for just 105 EUR (not including tax and shipping).
Now for free!

What is new?

• Girlfriend support. Enjoy romantic evenings with 'Dream of Stars'
• Seal of Approval by the Military after successfully absolving a field test by using the brand new and customized camouflage suit
• Real-time Mimic-a-Chameleon abilities
• Countless of other visual finesses
• Proof that perfection can be made more perfect

Download Site:
http://tokai.binaryriot.org/public/

Grab your pants...


Elephant 1.1

A cute elephant for your 3D layers powered MorphOS desktop. Or -if you like- you also can launch a whole elephant army to conquer your desktop. The choice is yours!

All AmiWest 2008 hotel bookings made with the former Clarion Hotel Cal Expo before Sept. 8, 2008 have been canceled. The new owners of the hotel have lost them. Please rebook with the new hotel owners as soon as possible. The new hotel web site is http://www.capitolcityhotel.com and the hotel is called the Capitol City Hotel Cal Expo now.

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the public release of MorphOS 2.1, a free update for users of MorphOS 2.0. In addition to numerous bug fixes, MorphOS 2.1 includes several new features. Some of the most notable ones are the much anticipated sound driver for EFIKA mainboards, a 2D driver for XGI Volari V3XT graphics cards and a virtual CybergraphX monitor (for operating MorphOS without the use of a graphics card via VNCServer). For an overview of the included changes and possible limitations of the forementioned features, please read our release notes.

A description of the hardware requirements and installation procedures can be found here. MorphOS 2.1 is available for download in our files section.

Today issue 74 (September/October 2008) has been published.

This means that all subscriptions, preorders and dealer supplies have been brought to the postal office.

In this issue you'll find reviews of WinUAE, AmiBlitz, MorphOS 2.0, AMuse, Cave Story and lots of more.

A more detailed description of content and excerpts can be found at: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=2650

Chicago, IL -- September 1st, 2008

DiscreetFX Founder Interviewed on the DV Show

The founder of DiscreetFX discusses the origins of the company in the mid-1990's as an Amiga Video Toaster Flyer consulting firm that morphed into a visual effects software developer. Current product developments SportsFX & ReligousFX are discussed. Questions are also answered about The in production documentary "Oil Change The Movie". This film is about the dangers of Trans Fat in the food supply. It is a killer in your food! Please listen to the show and enjoy.

DV Show

Something wonderful has happened! 2.5 years after the last update of Poseidon for MorphOS 1.4.x, the latest version V4.2 is now available for MorphOS 1.4.5 PowerUP Amigas. This version is not meant for Pegasos or Efika, nor for MorphOS 2.x installations. Please consider buying MorphOS 2.x for the latest Poseidon V4.x release.

The Poseidon V4.2 update can be downloaded using Trident online update (if V3.x is installed) or from my website http://www.platon42.de

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 :

RELEC at the Colmar Multimedia EXPO 2008 !

"RELEC + Pegasos-Suisse.com", a proud distributor of MorphOS / AmigaOS software & hardware,  is happy to announce its participation at the upcoming Colmar Multimedia l'Expo 2008, the second edition of the largest IT meeting in the North-East of France. The event takes place on the 24th, 25th and 26th of October. We will be looking forward to meet you.

Click "Read More" for details!

We would like to introduce you to the new MorphOS User Portal. It was designed to be a light-weight and fast-loading start page for interested MorphOS users that provides the ability to search the internet, a quick overview on the latest news and forum posts on MorphZone, a few important links, and access to the re-opened MorphOS User EMail System.

All email accounts include several gigabytes of storage, and can be accessed via POP3, IMAP, plus modern web browsers. In order to sign up, please visit this page.

Please note: Sputnik is a minimum requirement to properly display the website on MorphOS. Also, SSL encryption is mandatory to retreive your email messages. For basic instructions on how to set up your email client, please read this.

Stefan Stuntz, creator of MUI (Magic User Interface), a key component of MorphOS, has successfully completed a 5 months bike tour. He travelled from the Canary Islands to Northern Africa, then South Europe, and ended his journey in Italy. In addition to writing an online blog about his daily experiences, Stefan took an extensive amount of pictures that can be seen here. If you understand German, you can find his past blog entries and feedback from readers on this website.

The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future 73 (September/Oktober 2008) are online now.

In this issue you'll find reviews of the recent version of  <span style="font-weight: bold;">WinUAE</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">AmiBlitz</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MorphOS 2.0 </span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">AMuse</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cave Story</span> and much more.</span>

A more detailed description of contents and excerpts can be found at: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=2650

The Amiga Future is available as an English and German print magazine directly from the editorial office and some Amiga dealers.
The Amiga Future is available as a single issue and subscription each with or without a cover CD.

A few of you have noticed that a new AmiZilla website was launched recently. The talented artist that created it did a great job. AmiZilla has been a catalyst for change in the Amiga marketplace and an inspiration to all. AmiZilla shocked the Amiga market and even received wide press on Slashdot, Mozilla forums and many other news sites when it was launched in 2003. Many were caught off guard that an Amiga effort could bring in over $10,000 in donations, the Amiga is suppose to dead right? The Amiga is not dead, the AROS Bounty system, MorphZone Bounties and many other bounty systems were all inspired by AmiZilla and went on to collect thousands of dollars. DiscreetFX did not consider this competition to AmiZilla, in fact we embraced it and put lots of money into AROS Bounties, MorphZone Bounties and many others. The small community that is Amiga proved that it was not giving up and it was willing to pay for quality software to be ported to the Four Headsmen of Amiga.
(Read more)

Here is a translated news article mentioning MorphOS 2.0 from China!

Original article here

VICE 2.0 has been released.

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

Users of the website http://www.pegasosforum.de have opened a new bounty system to encourage and get in touch with developers who would like to improve existing applications or develop new ones to close the one or the other gap in MorphOS' software situation.

The german issues 44 of the Amiga Future are out of stock. Because of that you can read the magazines (amongst many other issues) online at http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=cat&cat=10 .

The issue 73 has been released recently and is available in our online shop. Just now we work hard on issue 74.

You can order the german and english Issue 73 of Amiga Future in our online shop.

Amiga Future needs your support

We are looking for editors for the magazine. You should own a classic Amiga or Pegasos and know it's workings. Furthermore you should have some experience in writing reviews. As well as that, your native language has to be either German or English which you should be fluent in.

Please don't forget: The Amiga Future is a community project.

In addition we are still looking for translators for the magazine. Again your native language should be German or English and you should be fluent in reading/writing both of them.

Interested? Please contact us via mail at: Andreas@amigafuture.de

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

A new version of OpenTTD 0.6 was just released for MorphOS.

OpenTTD is an open source clone of famous classic PC game 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe' with uncountable improvements and new features compared to the original.

For more information and screenshots, please read this Morphzone.org Thread.

Happy Tycoon'ing!

IMMEDIATE RELEASE : DiscreetFX Announcement

Open Video Toaster Instant Bounties

Chicago, Illinois ? July 14th, 2008 -- Visual FX company DiscreetFX LLC Inc., in order to stimulate development for the Video Toaster Flyer source code DiscreetFX is launching an Instant Bounty contest. What is an Instant Bounty? This is a bounty that is paid once a programmer has requested and been assigned a programming task for Open Video Toaster. This does take a little trust on our part since bounties are paid before coding even begins. Programmer past developments and applications will be taken into serious consideration and help gain them approval for OVT Instant Bounties. Programmers should review source code for the bounty in question before applying for consideration. Each development task for OVT will have set guidelines and coding time limits. <span style="font-weight: bold;">(Read more...)</span>

On schedule and not rocking like usual, OS4Emu 2.0 is released only two years late and is more annoying than ever. While slacking and playing Halo on X-Box, we developed a few new features and fixed some old!

Beta versions of prism2.device and etherlink3.device (a replacement for 3c589.device) that support PCMCIA cards under AmigaOS4 and MorphOS are now available for download. Thanks must go to Chris McGonagle for testing several versions of the OS4 drivers on a PPC-equipped A1200 as I don't have such hardware.

Be sure to install the provided 68k pccard.library in LIBS:. Further information about installation, compatible cards and contact details can be found in the older prism2 and 3c589 archives on Aminet.

Download here. Please report successes as well as failures - I need to know if the software is ready for a full release.

GammaMeter is a simple tool for measuring gamma coefficient of display devices. It uses luminance comparision method, so it does not need any external hardware. GammaMeter uses MUI, is localized and is distributed with source code on BSD license.

Download here..

Just 2 days have passed and Lucy has been updated once again!

This time we added options to ignore front and toolbar windows and windows just by their window title. Furthermore the documentation received an extensive overhaul and explains in detail what you can do with Lucy and its options.

Download Lucy V2.0 HERE

Based on the feedback on the newly released MorphOS 2.0, we have added a new Help Desk section to this website which covers solutions to various potential problems and answers to general questions. In case your problem or question is not listed, please sign up to our mailing list by following the instructions on the same page.

The Amiga Future 73 (July/August 2008) has been released. This means that all subscriptions, pre-orders and dealer supplies have been shipped. Now it's out of our hands and up to the postal service when the magazine actually gets to you. In this issue you'll find recent reviews of OWB, MySpellChecker, Sputnik, Deneb and lots more. Needless to say the specials like Game Endings or a report about Jagged are also in this issue. Also in the magazine, we have an interview with the makers of NatAmi and Thilo K?hler.
You can find a more detailed description of the full content at: http://www.amigafuture.de/kb.php?mode=article&k=2649

Amiga Future is available as a German and English print magazine directly from the editorial office and also through some Amiga dealers. Amiga Future is also available as a single issue or by subscription, each with or without a cover CD.

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

UPDATE: The software has been updated. Please download the latest version.

#amigazeux is pleased to release Lucy for MorphOS 2.0.

Lucy is a small commodity that uses one of the new features of MorphOS 2.0 and makes currently inactive and / or unfocussed windows translucent, depending on its operation mode.

Please note that Lucy requires MorphOS 2.0 and enabled 3D Layers.