Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present version 2.0 of the PDF plugin for Hollywood. This plugin can be used to create and view PDF documents from Hollywood scripts and contains the most advanced PDF rendering engine available on Amiga systems. The plugin was formerly known as Polybios and was renamed for version 2.0 because the old name caused some confusion. Version 2.0 is a major update which, in the spirit of Hollywood 11 which has lots of optimizations for smaller executables, now contains two separate flavours of the plugin: A full version that includes the full PDF renderer and a light version which is much smaller because it only contains the engine to create PDFs. Furthermore, it's also possible to directly load PDF pages into Hollywood vector brushes now. Finally, the PDF plugin supports the macOS arm64 and Linux arm64 platforms now.

The plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, arm64, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64, arm64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64) and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce that version 1.6 of the AVCodec plugin for Hollywood has just been released. This plugin allows Hollywood scripts to load all kinds of video and audio formats supported by FFmpeg. Version 1.6 is a minor update which contains some enhancements, bugfixes and support for the macOS arm64 and Linux arm64 platforms.

Version 1.6 of the AVCodec plugin is now available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux (ppc, arm, arm64, x86, x64), macOS (ppc, x86, x64, arm64), Windows (x86, x64), Android (arm, arm64), and iOS (arm, arm64) are provided.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present the first plugin exclusively for Hollywood 11: Coderise It's called MP3Enc and allows scripts to use the new sound export interface introduced with Hollywood 11 to encode sound streams as MP3s. Constant and variable bitrates as well as certain quality settings are supported. It's also possible to directly record audio data as MP3 now.

The plugin is available for free download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, arm64, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (arm64, ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided. Hollywood 11 is strictly required.

Note that on AmigaOS 3 it's highly recommended to use the FPU version of the plugin because otherwise MP3 encoding will be very slow since the MP3 encoder used by the plugin is heavy on floating point operations.

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

Version 2.1 of the ZIP plugin for Hollywood is now available for download. This is a minor update which contains a few new features and bugfixes. Also, the plugin is now available in a version for the Linux arm64 platform.

Airsoft Softwair just dropped a bunch of new add-ons for the latest Hollywood! Here’s what you can grab now:
- Hollywood Player 11
- Hollywood SDK 11 (packed with examples and documentation)
- Cubic IDE add-on (to get that Hollywood 11 scripting support)
- Documentation (massive 1100+ page PDF, plus HTML, CHM, and AmigaGuide formats)

RNOEffects 2.1 has been released. It adds more extensive Palette graphics support among many other improvements.

Please click "Read More" for the full change log.

After almost 3 years of development Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 11: Coderise. Hollywood is a programming language that can be used to create a wide variety of programs, ranging from games and GUI-based applications for desktop systems to mobile apps for Android and iOS. Hollywood's special feature is its support for retro platforms (e.g. AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) and modern operating systems (e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux) alike. It comes with a library of over 1000 commands and its functionality can be extended further through over 30 plugins which are available for free download.

Hollywood 11: Coderise is a massive update with lots of new features, optimizations and bug fixes. The most important new feature is that Hollywood 11 finally introduces a modular build system which will only link the libraries actually required by a script to the compiled program. This can drastically reduce executable sizes and is especially important on Amiga systems where memory is often limited. Hollywood 11 finally makes it possible to compile programs that fit on a single 880kb disk and run on a vanilla A1200! The new modular build system is made possible by a brand-new subsystem called Miniwood which, in contrast to Hollywood, allows scripts to only link the libraries actually required by the script to the output executable. Using Miniwood doesn't only have advantages for Amiga users but also for users of other platforms: For example, if scripts don't decide to load the display library, the program will also work on systems without X11, e.g. on pure terminal servers which was previously impossible.

NetFS 3.4 was released!

NetFS is a network filesystem and AREXX ports sharing for MorphOS and Amiga.
Available on Aminet now!

Wayfarer 11 is now available for download.

This version is based on the latest stable WebKitGTK 2.50.0.

Wayfarer 10.6 is now available for download. This version updates WebKit to WebKitGTK 2.48.6 and addresses several major issues.

CSS Gradients are now fixed to render correctly. Settings defaults are now always correctly updated to include latest Youtube presets.

Additionally, the simplified Youtube interface moved from now defunct youtube-nocookie.com onto a self-hosted solution. The first time you navigate to youtube.com or m.youtube.com, you will be asked which interface to pick for video playback. Choose Simple mode to enjoy fast load times on a bare-bones youtube player.

As with the last two events, there will be a special issue of Amiga Future for the Amiga 40 in Mönchengladbach.

The special issue is free for all visitors to Amiga 40 Mönchengladbach and is funded entirely by advertising (thanks to all supporters!) and APC&TCP.

In addition to all important information about the show, there will also be a section in the issue dedicated to supporting Amiga programmers.

This time, we want to include a screenshot gallery in the issue.

Wayfarer 10.0 is now available for download. The new version comes with WebKit rebased to WebKitGTK 2.48.3 (latest stable). As always, automatic updates are recommended.

A lot of work in this release went into improving youtube support, with better auto-quality switching, built-in predefined settings and user-agents. The MediaSource player was rewritten to fix the issues that plagued it in Wayfarer 9. Additionally, Wayfarer can now all automatically redirect all YT video links into youtube-nocookie.com that gives you just the video player, with no comments, recommended and most notably no video ads.

This version also adds HTTP/3 support*

Hi guys,

Because I received some questions lately: yes, the MorphOS free font package is still available. Send an email to support@monotype.com and ask for the free MorphOS font package. They will send it to you.

Please let me know if you encounter any issues. My email is jkonrad at fonts dot de. I will check and help.

thanks


Pike

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.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are back on your screen with version 2.0 of the SID plugin for Hollywood. Once this plugin is installed, Hollywood will "automagically" be able to play SID files just like any other audio file. Version 2.0 is a major update which now uses completely different SID core. Version 1.x of the SID plugin was based on the rather outdated TinySID core whereas version 2 now uses the state-of-the-art cRSID replayer written by Hermit (Mihaly Horvath) which features a much more accurate SID emulation that also supports the RSID format (Real SID). Additionally, version 2.0 comes with several other new features like the possibility to set the SID model to emulate (6581 or 8580) and several convenience enhancements for users of Hollywood 10.

A demo applet which demonstrates the playback of a SID file is included. This applet can also be run using the freely available Hollywood Player so people who don't own the full version of Hollywood can check it out as well.

You can download the plugin from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (arm, ppc, x86, x64), macOS (arm64, ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64), Android and iOS are provided.

To download SID music visit the High Voltage SID Collection.

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

Iris 1.36 is now available for download and via auto-update.

This version moves authentication of GMail/Outlook/Yahoo mail into a browser window presented within Iris, instead of launching Wayfarer. Several minor issues were also fixed.

Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to announce the immediate availability of RapaGUI 2.2. One of the most popular Hollywood plugins, RapaGUI is a cross-platform GUI toolkit that allows you to create graphical user interfaces that run on AmigaOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and even on Android. GUIs are conveniently defined in XML files and then run out-of-the-box on many different operating systems, using the native GUI widgets on all operating systems for an authentic look and feel.

Version 2.2 is mostly a maintenance update which contains several bug fixes. On top of that, RapaGUI 2.2 also introduces support for the macOS arm64 platform and a few other new features. It 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.

Wayfarer 8.11 out now.

Changes:
- Rebased to latest stable WebKitGTK 2.44.3
- Fixed a rare crash when hitting back/forward buttons
- Updated cURL
- Enabled VisualViewport API

Only four months after its initial release, Pangomonium, the Hollywood plugin that contains a state-of-the-art text and graphics engine including full support for color emojis and exotic scripts, is now available in a brand-new version 2.0. This is a major update which now adds SVG support to the plugin. In comparison to the dedicated SVG plugin which has been available for Hollywood for over a decade, Pangomonium's SVG renderer supports more SVG features because Pangomonium's text and graphics engine is much more powerful than the one used in the other SVG plugin for Hollywood. 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 2.0.

Iris 1.28 is now available!

The new version improves local message cache synchronization performance, makes local caching configurable on a per-folder basis. Insert Image and Insert Link popups got remote image support.

The WebKit core was updated to 2.44.2, like in the latest Wayfarer.

iris-morphos.com

Wayfarer 8.7 is now available with WebKit code updated to WebKitGTK 2.44.2.

Additionally, a targeted workaround was added to fix ReCaptcha on slower hardware, along with fixes for PayPal login page redraw issues and many small performance optimizations.

libcurl was updated to latest version, along with performance improvements and bugfixes.

Built-in Safari User Agents were updated to reflect changes in latest macOS/iOS Safari and editing of custom User Agents is now working correctly again.