OWB 1.18 has been released.

Download it from the usual location at:
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.18.lha
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.18-nosvg.lha

A new update for Reggae multimedia framework is available via Grunch and in MorphZone downloads section. Key features are:

• the first image encoder (using Reggae media saver API) for IFF DEEP format, written by Michał Żukowski,
• Czech, French, German, Polish and Spanish locale for GUI of audio encoders and multimedia.class
• improvements in audio.output class.

As usual there are also small bugfixes, see the changelog for details. The update is selfcontained, may be installed over any previous 3.1.x update or clean MorphOS 3.1.

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

Reggae media processing framework has been updated to version 3.1.5. A new scheme of versioning is synchronized with MorphOS versions, it means 3.1.x Reggae is an update for MorphOS 3.1. Grunch users have already received this update incrementally, now it is also available in the download section of the site, as a standalone archive with Installer script. The update mostly contains new and updated classes resulting from the completed bounty for media writing. As usual there are also numerous bugfixes. All changes are listed in a changelog contained in the archive. Developer documentation and SDK include files have been updated too, and are installed automatically if SDK installation is detected.

MomosIRC is an IRC client for MorphOS. It is a new application, written from scratch, having MUI user interface. Due to incoming another break in the joyful creativity, the author decided to share the beta with users as is (with debug output turned on...). Not all features are implemented yet, but program is stable, and quite usable.

A new version with a MUI gui was released, built with UAE4all rc3 source.

This version finally support the new FAME emulation core that run faster.

Binary: uae4all_031.lha
Source: uae4all_031_src.lha

Jack 3.2.5 Released for all (Amiga-like) Platforms

AmigaOS - OS4Depot
Classic (now available with or without FPU) - Aminet
MorphOS Beta - Available here (Debug mode enabled - I need someone to test it!)
WarpOS - Aminet
Support website: http://jackforamigaos.wordpress.com

To celebrate adding Sudominator and U1Synth to the package manager Grunch, both programs have been updated. Sudominator had some problem with new MUI 4 transparency effect for disabled gadgets. This effect has been unnecessarily applied to the sudoku field when live solver was running, so the whole thing was unreadable. U1Synth has got an octave switch, a first small step towards changing it from a toy to a simple, yet usable synthesizer.

A new version of audio converter Zormanita brings automatic file extension handling. There is an option for removing extension from the source file name and for adding default extension (based on selected output format). These features with previously available ones, like copying source name to destination and dropping files from Ambient into Zormanita window, make it easier to convert multiple files. A Reggae classes update comes with Zormanita, it adds 24 and 32-bit modes to AIFF, WAVE and Raw encoders. Zormanita may be downloaded from our download section.