Exactly ten years ago today, Hollywood 1.0 was shipped to the first customers. Since then the software has grown to one of the largest Amiga programs and is now available for all major systems including the mobile platform Android. To celebrate the success story of Hollywood, version 5.2 has been released today for all existing customers of Hollywood. Hollywood 5.2 is a major update which includes several new features among the usual bug fixes. Read more for a brief overview of new features in 5.2.

Hollywood 5.2 is the first joint release of Hollywood for both desktop and mobile platforms. Users of the Android version can conveniently update to 5.2 via Google Play while users of the Amiga and Windows versions can download update archives (35 to 45 MB in size) free of charge from the official Hollywood portal.

Please note that Hollywood 5.2 is currently only available for existing customers and cannot be purchased at this time.

The V.A.M.P. video player is available for download on www.vamp.es. This multimedia player is programmed with Hollywood and it is prtially based on Andreas Falkenhahn's example source codes of VideoPlayer and AnimPlayer. This little tool has been made to demostrate the multimedia features of this programming language it is not aimed at sustituting other videoplayers.

SteamDraw the vector-oriented GFX-program for MorphOS is now available in version 2.1. The following (and more) changes have been made over version 2.0:

• use of cairo as shared library instead of linklib
• removal of fill-option "Gradient", cairo seems to have some issues with keeping track of used memory here
• fill-option "Picture" is now rotated when it's object is
• removed some serious bugs,
• SteamDraw runs now again in only 1 task but extra meassures to minimize CPU-load and lagging are still included.

Available via Grunch, or directly at:
http://www.steamdraw.homepage.t-online.de/SteamDraw.lha

MorphOS.pl in co-operation with Mark 'BigFoot' Olsen is pleased to announce that bounty for MorphOS port to a PowerMac G5 has been opened. Please read more for bounty details.

The following MorphOS related articles have been added to the website of the french Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement during the last two months :

- September/October 2012 news.
- News: insights about the Amiga in 2012.
- Report: Amigâteries 2011.
- Interview with Yannick Buchy (webmaster of Meta-MorphOS.org).
- Review of Hurrican.
- Hardware: reflash of graphic cards in order to you it on Mac/MorphOS (update).
- Tutorial: utilisation of GMail with SimpleMail and YAM (update).