For the third year in a row I will be demonstrating the latest version of MorphOS2.x at the AmiWest 2010 Show in October. This year I will have four computers running MorphOS2.5 (or greater), including my Efika (which I am working on putting in a new and interesting case w/monitor), 1.5GHz G4 MacMini, 1.25GHz G4 eMac, and Dual 1.25GHz G4 MDD PowerMac. I have also been asked to run the Amiga Game Competition again for this year's AmiWest 2010 Show and have decided to donate the 1.25GHz G4 eMac running the demo version of MorphOS2.5 as the grand prize to the winner of the competition. So, if you like playing Amiga games and can make it to Sacramento, CA in October, come to AmiWest 2010 Show and have a chance to win yourself a 1.25GHz eMac to run MorphOS on.

I hope to see some of you at the show, please introduce yourself.

David W. Morris
aka AmigaDave
Efficient by Design

Carsten Siegner has released the first public version of Magical Ink, a new vector paint application for MorphOS 2.5. The software can import OpenOffice Draw, Microsoft Word (97), SVG documents as well as common text and bitmap graphics files. Currently, it can also export to the PDF, SVG, PNG and EPS file formats.

The software requires at least MorphOS 2.5 or higher, antiword-0.37 (for Word95 Import), fonts from an OWB installation, a screen size of at least 1024x768 or higher and a bare minimum of 100 MB of memory. Please note that, not unlike OWB, the software may have to create a font cache on the first run which may take several minutes.

Link: Download

The following articles have been added to the website of the French Amiga / MorphOS magazine Obligement during the past two months : A news summary for July / August 2010, a review of Fortis, a review of Giana's Return and, last but not least, a review of IceFileSystem 1.13.

Sudominator is a fast GUI based sudoku puzzle solver. It uses optimized brute-force algorithm, so it can solve any sudoku, assuming it is resolvable at all. The program offers sudoku validation, instant solving, as well as live solving showing every step of algorithm at a rate of 40 to 50 steps per second. Full source code included. Sudominator can be downloaded from our downloads section.

After more than 5 Years and several gaps where the page wasn't available, Geit.de was switched off in August this year. Countless people asked about the reason and showed that this site is regularily being visited by community members.

Geit.de changed server and domain provider during the last month and was only available through a fall back home server. But this period was used constructively. It all started with a new logo and ended with a complete make over of all 100 (!!) pages found at Geit.de. Some sections were enhanced, reworked and improved. Thanks to the new look and design future changes and providing new content will be much easier.

The multi-track audio recording and editing software Audio Evolution 4 is now available for MorphOS! With almost identical features to the AmigaOS4 and AROS version, it allows non-linear and non-destructive editing of 16-bit audio, real-time effect processing, automation, multi-track playback and much more. Visit the Audio Evolution website for more information, download the demo or buy it now for only 49 euro!

Many thanks go out to the MorphOS developer team who helped me out tremendously with getting my hardware up and running and solving software issues!

Carsten Siegner has published a video preview of Magical Ink, a new vector paint application that is similar to Inkscape and runs on MorphOS 2.5. The software can import OpenOffice Draw, Microsoft Word (97), SVG documents as well as common text and bitmap graphics files. Currently, it can also export to the PDF, SVG, PNG and EPS file formats.

Link: YouTube

A new version of the 64bit file system IceFS has been released. It contains various bug fixes. Existing users are strongly advised to upgrade.

The pack Ultimate 1.6.1 for MorphOS 2.5 is now available.

In preparation of the beta release of Audio Evolution 4 for MorphOS, I have ported my Envy24HT AHI driver to MorphOS! It supports the following cards: Terratec Aureon Sky/Space, Phase 22/28, M-Audio Revolution 5.1/7.1 and ESI Juli@.

Please visit http://www.audio-evolution.com/drivers_mos for more information.

Special thanks to Frank Mariak for his continuous support for getting my PowerMac working, my gfx card(s) and with debugging my Envy24HT driver!