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.

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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.