After long time on SDL 2... It's time to upgrade to version 3.

Now SDL 3.x is a static library (everything is included in the binaries). This method is much simpler for me.

You can find the SDL 3.2.8 "beta" SDK, as well as SDL_mixer, SDL_image and SDL_ttf in version 3 on storage https://www.morphos-storage.net/?find=SDL_3.

New ports are coming...

The English and German issue 173 (March/April 2025) of our print magazine Amiga Future has been distributed today, and can also be ordered directly from our editorial office at Amiga Future, and from other Amiga dealers that stock it.

Magazine Content: Review MorphOS 3.19

and so much more ... if you haven't already, right now might be the best time to get your collectable copy ordered, before they're all sold out!

For a more detailed description of its contents and previews of this issue click-on link of the Amiga Future magazine hompepage.

Wayfarer 9.2 is now out and fixes endianness problems introduced in the WebKitGTK 2.46 branch.

As always, please update using the auto-updater.

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.19. This release includes numerous important stability and security improvements.

For a more extensive overview of the changes included in MorphOS 3.19, please read our release notes.

We strongly urge new users to carefully read our installation and troubleshooting guides before they attempt to install MorphOS for the first time. Existing users can upgrade via the familiar procedure but are encouraged to read the guides as well. MorphOS 3.19 is available for download in our files section.

A new version of Lite XL v1.7.1r1, the lightweight editor for AmigaOS 4 and Linux just got released. This is based on the latest upstream version, that is for other platforms, following all their updates and bug fixes. Furthermore, in this version I introduced plenty of useful plugins, expanding its capabilities.

Please, find more information at my blog post in ko-fi.

Wayfarer 9, with WebKit rebased to WebKitGTK 2.46.5 is now available for download from wayfarer.icu.

Please check the forum post for more information.

Iris 1.44 is now available for download.

Several past releases have mostly focused on re-implementing local cache for offline viewing of messages. Iris can now use up to 10 threads to simultaneously download whole emails. Once a folder is cached, messages and attachments will display instantaneously.

Calendar events may now be responded to as well as cancelled via Iris.

Sending emails may be configured to always BCC to a predefined account. This makes it possible to verify if a mission critical email was in fact accepted by the SMTP server or for backup purposes.

Please use 'Check for Updates' from Iris' menu to automatically download and install the update.

Leif Salomonsson wrote ECX as a closed-source AmigaE compiler for PowerPC Amiga-likes (starting with MorphOS) and classic Amiga. Several years later he discontinued development and released the source code of the compiler, written in ECX as a self-hosted development system.

EEC is a fork of it, hosted on GitHub, that compiles all ECX sources. The intended purpose is to parallel E-VO on the classics whose compiler is developed in 68k Assembly and is based on generations of AmigaE after Dr. Wouter van Oortmerssen left the Amiga scene in similar fashion to Leif, leaving the Assembly source to AmigaE.

If you know anything about Leif's work on ECX, please share it in the comments below or in the EEC discussion board on GitHub. There are still a few bugs left but without the help of knowledgeable developers it will once again languish in a bit-bucket. Bug reports can be made to the EEC issue tracker on GitHub. Thanks to D. M. Coles, the author of E-VO, the EEC sources compile themselves and the demo programs that came with ECX.

Version 1.5 of Malibu, the Hollywood plugin which can be used to show Scala scripts, has just been released. Version 1.5 contains several bug fixes so that it's now possible to run the Scala games Beyond a Steel Sky and Adventure 2 by Quantum Code Monk with it. This makes it possible to play those games on your Nextgen Amiga, on Windows, macOS, or on Linux. Furthermore, starting with version 1.5 Malibu is now also available in a version for macOS arm64 (Apple Silicon). Malibu 1.5 is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal.

This release was brought to you by Airsoft Softwair - the hardest working men in code business.

Pangomonium 2.1 has just been released. Pangomonium is a Hollywood plugin that contains a state-of-the-art text and graphics engine including full support for color emojis, exotic scripts and SVG rendering. Version 2.1 is a bugfix release which fixes a bug in the SVG loader. Pangomonium 2.0 is now available for free download for various platforms from the official Hollywood portal. Note that Hollywood 10 is strictly required by Pangomonium.