The French website www.meta-morphos.org is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a beta version of Ultimate pack 1.6.0 for MorphOS 2.5. This pack will allow you to quickly and effortlessly obtain a more complete MorphOS environment. Included features are: Mail, chat, calendar, address book, music and video players, drawing software, photo organizer, E-UAE integration in Ambient and GetVideo integration in OWB (via contextual menu), and much more.

Several MorphOS development team members will be present in Essen on Saturday, July 24, 2010. They will demonstrate the latest version of MorphOS on various hardware platforms. The developers will be looking forward to meet all interested visitors.

Link: Amiga Meeting

lzmaLoader 1.2 has been released. lzmaLoader is a simple executable packer for MorphOS. It is mainly targeted for cases where extremely small executable file size is required (scene intros mostly).

Version 1.2 adds a hand optimized 380 byte shared loader which can be used when the compressed binary targets MorphOS 2.5 (or newer) systems.

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

- Amiga/MorphOS news of may/june 2010.
- Interview with Frederic Boisdron (director of Robootic).
- Review of MorphOS 2.5.
- File : MorphOS beginner's guide (update).
- Tutorial : installation of MorphOS 2.5.
- Tutorial : Rival.
- Tutorial : MorphVectrex.

Rendez-vous on http://obligement.free.fr for this nice reading.
All translations are welcome. Please contact me for more info.

The very first release of a plug-in SDK for the applications Sketch and Scandal has been published.. If you are a developer, you can now create your own effect plug-in  for these two applications. You can download the SDK archive from here. 

Please make sure to read the included documentation / source comments and then compile, compile, compile.

Requirements:
-MorphOS SDK 2 must be installed
-Knowledge about graphics programming
-Free time

We will be looking forward to test your plug-ins!