Meta-MorphOS

AmiArcadia 36.70 and MCE 15.63

papiosaur — 2026-10-07T13:25:53+00:00

Stefan Haubenthal releases the MorphOS ports of two programs by James Jacobs. AmiArcadia 36.70, the Signetics-based machines emulator (Emerson Arcadia 2001, Interton VC 4000, 1970s-80s micros and coin-ops), now emulates the ETI-645 Tasman Turtle robot on PIPBUG machines. It recognises three more Japanese homebrews on the Arcadia, gains infinite lives and invincibility trainers for Windworld, and no longer hangs when the RetroAchievements login is cancelled. The Greek translation is up to date.

MCE 15.63, the editor of characters, saved games, levels and high-score tables for 126 classic Amiga games, no longer crashes on quitting after the graphics editor has been used. In Demon's Winter, a character's "standing" field becomes editable.

Both require ReAction and are open source. 11 MB archive for AmiArcadia, 5 MB for MCE.

Visit the dedicated webpages on MorphOS-Storage, AmiArcadia and MCE, or the author's site.

ACE 1.27: the Amstrad CPC emulator moves to shaders

papiosaur — 2026-10-07T13:10:56+00:00

Philippe 'OffseT' Rimauro releases ACE 1.27, his Amstrad CPC and CPC+ emulator written from scratch for MorphOS, the first release since January 2024. OpenGL display, present in the code but never enabled until now, now takes advantage of the MorphOS shaders, with a dedicated shader for each screen type (colour, green or grey); it needs an R300 GPU or better, and bilinear smoothing takes over otherwise. The render engine can be changed on the fly from a menu. Each PSG sound channel can be muted on its own from the main window, and the title bar shows the elapsed time in fast forward.

On the emulation side, VSync handling of CRTC 2 and the update of registers 12 and 13 of CRTC 0 are fixed, and the Sonic demo by NoRecess no longer freezes on CPC+. Developers get AREXX commands to extract and inject shaders, MagicBeacon notifications when video recording starts and stops, and several fixes in the breakpoint windows and the Z80 disassembler. Plugins can now store their state in snapshots.

The ACEpansion plugins are released at the same time: storage and expansion cards (Albireo and a second Albireo, M4 Board, X-Mass, Dandanator, Mirage Imager, Nova), sound (PlayCity, Play2CPC, Willy for OPL3 and MIDI, Amdrum, DK'Tronics, SSA-1 and Techni-Musique speech synthesizers), MultiPlay joystick ports, and for developers CycleCounter plus a newcomer, LiveMemoryMap, which shows the memory map live. Each one is installed by copying its archive into the ACE drawer; some require ACE 1.27.

Requires MorphOS 3.20, a 700 MHz CPU (1 GHz for the CPC+). Free, a 2 MB archive for the emulator.

Visit MorphOS-Storage for the emulator and its plugins, or the official website.

Lorraine 0.6: faster and more comfortable

papiosaur — 2026-10-06T15:31:22+00:00

Papiosaur releases Lorraine 0.6, the Amiga emulator written from scratch for MorphOS, the day after 0.5. Emulation is faster, notably on AGA screens full of sprites, and WHDLoad games load faster from their .lha or .lzx archive. The A1200 can run at maximum CPU speed, the mouse speed can be set, and the settings panel attaches to the left of the emulation window and can be made much narrower. The window title shows what the Amiga started from (DF0:, hard disk or WHDLoad).

As for fixes, interlaced pictures no longer shake, some AGA screens are no longer shifted or garbled, WHDLoad games with a NewIcon start and the mouse pointer no longer runs wild in some games. The Kickstart ROMs must be copied in by yourself. Requires MorphOS 3.20 and sdl2.library for gamepads. Free, a 6 MB archive.

Visit the dedicated webpage on MorphOS-Storage or the official website.

MorphOS-CDPlayer 1.4 gains stability

papiosaur — 2026-10-06T15:29:46+00:00

Bernd Assenmacher releases MorphOS-CDPlayer 1.4, his audio CD and WAV file player written with Hollywood. This maintenance release makes the program more stable: buttons are enabled and disabled according to what is possible, the Scan button no longer causes an error and the displayed status is correct again.

The guide is updated. It is free, and the author welcomes donations. A 1 MB archive.

Visit the dedicated webpage on MorphOS-Storage or the author's website.

Papio-Design 1.23: a cleaned-up archive

papiosaur — 2026-10-06T09:52:49+00:00

Papiosaur releases Papio-Design 1.23, the graphics suite that brings together Folios (page layout), Graphos (vector drawing), Momento (photos) and Pixelios (pixel painting). This version only fixes the archive: the 1.22 one held by mistake the files of a Momento test, a drawer of thumbnails and a picture catalog. If you installed 1.22, you can delete the Momento/cache/PAPIOSAUR-LINUX drawer, which only holds thumbnails of our test pictures. As a reminder, 1.22 brought Pixelios to 1.3, which opens pictures up to 8192 pixels a side.

Requires MorphOS 3.20. It is shareware: each program can be tried as a demo, €59.90 for the whole pack, future updates included. A 26 MB archive.

Visit the dedicated webpage on MorphOS-Storage or the official website.

Papio-Office 2.6: documents that travel better to Word and LibreOffice

papiosaur — 2026-10-05T12:31:23+00:00

Papiosaur releases Papio-Office 2.61, the office suite for MorphOS, following a 2.5 released a few days earlier. Stylos, Sigma, Diapos and Cardex now save a copy of your work every five minutes and offer it back at the next start after a crash. In Stylos 4.6, page and line breaks, tab stops, and table borders and colours survive the trip to .odt and .docx, and a .docx holding a tab opens in Word and LibreOffice again. Undo now covers margins, paper size, styles and the position of pictures.

Sigma 3.7 exports to PDF and prints a large workbook up to thirteen times faster; since 2.5, a sheet holds 65,536 rows and typing replaces a cell's content as in other spreadsheets. Diapos 2.4 exports to PDF twice as fast, shows the transparency of pictures, and gains justified text, highlighting and formatting of part of the text in table cells. Cardex 1.3 searches regardless of accents and has a Preferences window; NoPaper 1.6 follows files added to the drawer and makes its thumbnails several times faster; IPP-PrintScan 1.8 no longer risks freezing for lack of stack.

Requires MorphOS 3.20. It is shareware: each program can be tried as a demo, €89.90 for the entire suite, future updates included. A 49 MB archive.

Visit the dedicated webpage on MorphOS-Storage or the official website.

Raptor 0.8.2: Apogee's shoot'em up flies again on MorphOS

papiosaur — 2026-10-04T11:13:28+00:00

BeWorld releases Raptor 0.8.2, an SDL2 port of Raptor: Call of the Shadows, the vertical shoot'em up by Cygnus Studios published by Apogee in 1994. This is not emulation: the game runs natively thanks to the source code rebuilt by reverse engineering by nukeykt. This version fixes fullscreen and joystick and uses far less CPU; the previous one had already fixed game controllers, keyboard and a crash on exit.

The game data is not included: copy the .GLB files from the original game next to the executable, then adjust the options with raptorsetup. Requires MorphOS 3.20 and SDL 2.32.11 or newer. Free, a 355 KB archive.

Visit the dedicated webpage on MorphOS-Storage.

CVBasic 0.9.2: BASIC programming for the ColecoVision and 8-bit consoles

papiosaur — 2026-10-04T11:13:07+00:00

Stefan Haubenthal ports CVBasic 0.9.2 to MorphOS, the BASIC cross-compiler by Óscar Toledo G. (nanochess). It turns a BASIC program into assembly code for the ColecoVision, and for about fifteen other 8-bit machines as well: MSX and MSX2, Sega SG-1000 and Master System, NES/Famicom, TI-99/4A, Spectravideo, Memotech MTX, NABU, Tatung Einstein, Casio PV-2000 and a few more. A single command-line option switches the target.

The output still has to be assembled with gasm80 or xas99.py to get a ROM you can run in an emulator or on the real machine. A Shell tool, available for MorphOS and AmigaOS 68k. Free, a 585 KB archive.

Visit the dedicated webpage on MorphOS-Storage or the official website.

Koliber 0.9.1 and Cameleon 1.2: Stefkos moves his presentation and paint programs forward

papiosaur — 2026-10-04T11:06:23+00:00

Pawel "Stefkos" Stefanski updates two of his native programs. Cameleon 1.2, the layer-based paint program, brings Free Transform: a frame surrounds the active layer, and dragging it rotates, scales or moves the layer, with a live preview. Text behaves like a vector object: rotated or enlarged, it is redrawn crisply from the font and stays editable. Copy and paste now goes through the system clipboard, so it works with other programs too, and whatever you paste arrives as a new layer. Shape and path tools are grouped into pop-up menus, brushes are defined from a selection, Duplicate and Merge in the Layer menu work, and a memory corruption while drawing has been fixed.

Koliber 0.9.1, the presentation program that flies the camera across a borderless canvas, polishes everyday work: text stays sharp at every zoom level, the canvas draws under any renderer, text is typed straight onto the canvas, and the inspector can be folded away. It is still beta.

Koliber can use TinyGL for accelerated rendering and ships the FFmpeg libraries for video. Free, archives of 2.5 MB for Cameleon and 19 MB for Koliber.

Visit the Cameleon page or the Koliber page.

hURL 2.2 for Hollywood

papiosaur — 2026-10-04T11:03:35+00:00

Andreas Falkenhahn releases hURL 2.2, the curl-based Hollywood plugin that gives scripts access to nearly every transfer protocol, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP and SMTP included. On the MorphOS side, this version updates the built-in root certificates (Mozilla, August 2026) and fixes file uploads through UploadFile(), which did not always work. A 2 MB archive.

Visit the dedicated webpage on MorphOS-Storage or the official website.