The real time strategy game Homeworld has won the AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2008. It beat Jagged Alliance 2 and Command And Conquer : Red Alert.

All results can be seen here : http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2008.php

Thanks to Andrea Palmat? a new version of ffmpeg is avaible which supports several new codecs and fomats, including the much asked for aac audio codec. An updated version of ffmpegGUI is also available which supports many of the new codes and formats. It also now allows the use of KCON: for output. See details below.

Get ffmpeg here!
Get ffmpegGUI v2.1 here!

The chat client Pidgin 2.5.2 is now available on OS4-depot. Pidgin supports
many protocols, which can be used at the same time:

Read further or supported formats

Available for immediate download

CodeBench 0.8 Beta

Due to a lack of internal testing, it is time to release CodeBench out to a wider audience.

Download it now from here

Antwerp, Belgium - January 31, 2009.

Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability of AmigaOS 4.1 for the Pegasos II PowerPC platform.

AmigaOS 4.1 for the Pegasos II is functionally identical to the AmigaOne version.

Worldwide distribution to dealers and production are handled by ACube Systems S.r.l. .

Interested customers are invited to contact their local Amiga dealer to place their order.

No major changes, but its been in beta for a long time.

Changes:

Customers complained to us that the special price on Aladdin 4D this month was only available to Amiga Video Toaster customers. We have listened to your feedback and are now offering it for all current owners of Amiga OS 4.0, 4.1, Sam440, EFIKA, MorphOS, and Amiga Forever 2008. Customers who have purchased these software/hardware products are active and stimulating the market.

Leuven, Belgium - 26. January, 2009

Hyperion Entertainment is proud to announce the availability of the Software Development Kit Version 53.13 for AmigaOS 4.1.

The new SDK features the gcc 4.2.4 compiler, binutils 2.18 (with support for the PowerPC 440ep), as well as updated header files and autodocs for AmigaOS 4.1.

The download area of the Amiga Future homepage has been updated again.

There are new full versions and keyfiles amongst other stuff online.

Each year you can vote for the best AmigaOS/MorphOS game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the AmigaOS/MorphOS Games Award 2008 !

To vote for the best AmigaOS 68k, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS or AROS games, you can rate them at this page :

http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2008.php

The final results will be published wednesday 4th Febrary.