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

Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 22, February 2011

ACube Systems is pleased to announce a new release of the U-Boot firmware for its line of motherboards Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex.

In addition to the recently presented Beta version of DigiBooster 3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS you will now get the 68k version for AmigaOS 3.x !

This one was successfully tested with version 3.0 and 3.1 with and without graphics boards and even different WinUAE configurations. Have fun!

http://www.digiboosterpro.de

The bounty for a JIT enabled version of E-UAE for AmigaOS4.1. has been assigned to Álmos Rajnai. Álmos is undoubtedly one of the best qualified persons for the job we could think of, as he's the author of (Petunia) the JIT 68K emulator in AmigaOS4.

Our current version of E-UAE on AmigaOS4.1 (and also MorphOS) supports only interpretive emulation and is quite slow compared to f.ex. winUAE.
Gaining JIT 68K code emulation (like Petunia) will speed things up. Especially AmigaOS4.1 users with slower machines should gain a lot from a JIT version of E-UAE. The JIT version will automatically become open source and other PPC OS will hopefully be able to benefit from the work as well.

As usual donations can be made via the Amigabounty.net website: JIT enabled E-UAE bounty

Amiga Future 89 preview and excerpts online

The preview and excerpts of the Amiga Future issue 89 (Februar/March 2011) are online now.

Highlights in this issue:

Enjoy the read. Short issue this month.

SHORT RUN DOWN OF MONTHLY PAGE ISSUE SEVENTEEN :
- Interview with AmigaSoft (Article by Gebrochen)
- Coming Out Of The Shell Part 1(Article by Hypex)
- Some advert pictures.
- Top ten downloads OS4depot.

After a long period of closed testing the DigiBooster 3 music tracker enters the public beta stage. The main goal of public betatesting is to check program core stability and performance on different operating systems and hardware configurations.

Demo versions of DigiBooster 3 for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS are available for download on the official DigiBooster website. Please note that this is not a release candidate. Many important features still wait to be implemented. It is highly recommended to read a "readme" file after installation.

On February 9th 2011, the magazine Obligement have announced the results of the Amiga Games Award 2010. This represents the best Amiga games voted by amigans on all Amiga platforms.

For AmigaOS 4.x

• 1. Aquaria (Bit Blot)


• 2. Descent Freespace 2 (Volition / Interplay)


• 3. Warzone 2100 (Pumpkin Studios, Warzone Resurection Project)

I am releasing a "full preview" of the next version of the PortablE programming language. It is now aimed at beginners & those new to the E language.

Previous releases of PortablE were aimed at existing AmigaE users, and those familiar with AmigaOS programming. But after more than a year of development, PortablE is much easier for beginners to pick-up & play with:

Each year you can vote for the best Amiga game of the previous twelve months. Now it's time for the Amiga Games Award 2010 !

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

[url]http://obligement.free.fr/hitparade/award2010.php[/url]