Wow, time flies and another year started. World in general still seems to have gone nuts, but here in our small niche we may still bother about the small things. Hence, I start the yearly thread:

What's in the pipeline for 2026 from a MorphOS POV then?

Someone with deams, hopes, actual expectation, announcements - bring them on here!



[ Editiert durch Zylesea 03.01.2026 - 10:46 ]

MorphOS 3.20 on a Mirari

- New SDK
- OpenGL 2.0
- USB3 support
- 4Gb support
- Hi-speed network
- New printer support in one place

Hmmm, hard to say will hopefully get some of my stuff over the finish line, public release of 3.20 this year seems like an certainty. Which would/should also make the Mirari available for mortals.

Also some hints and tidbits going around that could end up being nothing burgers or supersized BigMacs.

My 2026 shall be simple, to finally explore MorphOS to its fullest now that I seem to have the sound issue resolved BUT one since we are dreaming, a couple things.

#1
AmigaOne X5K and local network transfers seems off. Small files that should takes seconds take minutes and little bit larger files takes MANY minutes... like 15 to 20. haha. Some of my older posts show this anomaly. I start a transfer and seems like an endless abyss and many times they stall. Just think a 50mb file takes ages. I see MorphOS on other platforms work fine so appears an X5K thing?

#2
Emotion for MorphOS for easy movie playback. I used Emotion on X5K in AmigaOS and is very nice GUI and with nice video card drivers, 1080p or even higher play well.

#3
Radeon 580 Driver so we can do very nice video playback for games and videos so I can ditch the ATI 1950 and use just 1 video card and not have to do 2 for my X5K.

#4
An easy to use Video Creation Application like say iMovie for MorphOS so I can edit and export some of my YouTube content from my X5K running MorphOS.

I am sure I can think of more but 2026 will just be about finally exploring MorphOS for me.

TJ

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my expectations:
- New Morphos Release
- Mirari availability
- Spreadsheed App
- Wayfarer Updates
- Hollywood Update

And I Hope to finally get into (Hollywood) programming again, there are a few started Programms that should get some Love.

The very only one thing:
Leave the blind alley of PPC and go to amd64 / x86.

My expectations:
- Mirari
- Mos 3.20
- new Sdk
- Finally release Ermentrud international version
- maybe Mirari with Altivec

I hope for MorphOS 3.20 and new / updated applications.

I really hope my PowerBook G4 will survive the whole of 2026, so I can continue working on my game for MorphOS. An unexpected failure of my MOS machine would be a huge problem for me. :(

I also hope MorphOS 3.20 will be released with the latest TinyGL, so users don’t have to install a beta versions.

I would also like to see a really good, modern graphics application for MorphOS. But I know this is unrealistic, so I don’t include it in my expectations.

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+1 from me. But i think it won’t happen any time soon.
I would love to have a machine that is twice as fast as my G5 Quad supported by MorphOS.
And new GFX-Drivers supporting 3D and all the stuff on Radeon GCN(2) or Polaris.
With h264 and h265 acceleration.

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If you find some developers around Hamburg that can add all that to MorphOS in 2026 and also build some new h/w that outperforms a Quad G5 by at least two times, let me know.

happy new year to the Morph users.

my expectations for the 2026... MorphOS supporting ARM or x86 ...

Guys, the majority of people hate M$ and their f#cking win11.
MorphOS is a much easier OS than Linux and it could be great for the old x86 machines and Raspberry.


Please do it.

My realistic and predictable expectations for MorphOS in 2026 are...

* MorphOS 3.20
* MorphOS to NOT switch to another architecture, for if they do, then people will lose another reason to continue using PowerPC Macs, we already have enough operating systems on the boring mainstream x86 platform
* Kronos's new panel revamp
* Jacadcaps's new program CellBasics
* Papiosaur and BeWorld porting more SDL2 games
* Mirari official release
* Papiosaur's new word processor, image viewer/slideshow, and ffmpeg GUI

My unrealistic expectations that perhaps only I can wish for:

* SheepShaver ported to MorphOS to emulate Mac OS 9 (we already have Basilisk II for 68k Mac OS, why not SheepShaver?)
* An updated, perfect, unmatched RSS client instead of IvoRSS and AmRSS
* MUI frontend for Mednafen as a competitor/alternative to RetroArch
* A native MorphOS Bittorrent client (currently I use the 68k AmigaOS3 software DizzyTorrent 2.22 which is on Aminet but MorphOS-Storage still has 2.20)
* A long-overdue update to Odyssey Web Browser (I know it's been superseded by Wayfarer but I still frequently use it on MorphOS)
* NetSurf 3.11 on MorphOS (it's already on AmigaOS), or some other web browser to use in addition to Wayfarer and OWB (one can never have too many web browsers)
* Gemini or Gopher client (I am unaware of any Gemini client compatible with MorphOS)
* Someone developing an alternative file manager like maybe WorkBench Explorer on os4depot
* A PROPER port of VLC Media Player, not that 0.8.6f version on morphos-storage.net

[ Edited by ppc-grinch 07.01.2026 - 14:24 ]

Print-function for Ambients pic- and text-viewer!
Integrate Icon-rename-function to Info-window (like OS3.9)
USB Driver for FT230XS based adapters (~ FDTI)
Vpdf: Printer-button in GUI
Updated SAMBA and smbfs

Far away dream:
Office package (Writer and Spreadsheet with compatible data-format to Open Office/Word_EXCEL)
Serial port and 2nd IDE-Channel on Efika

3rd party (or new MOS-native VNC-Viewer/Server): Updated TwinVNC with drag&drop filetransfer......

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Why so salty. It's just a wish. I know that the MorphOS Devs have a private life. And that the things i mentioned are not trivial to achieve.
But i would wish that after the Mirari there would be a more powerful Hardware.
Because for me browsing the internet is very essential. And the G5 is just to slow to do that in an convenient way.

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This!

But would different HW really be that faster for browsing?

We would still be running single core 31bit wrong-endian (cos thats just what it is for modern web).

Or (just as insane, maybe even more) would a PPC64LE QBox be more useful? G5s should be able to run that, no idea about X5000/Mirari. G4 and below would be out anyways.

Or maybe the "solution" is to support recent GFX cards and offload most of the heavy lifting there.


All 3 options are beyond what could be expected from the team in a reasonable timeframe, but if we choose a pipedream we should make sure it's the one with the most shrooms in it.

> would a PPC64LE QBox be more useful? G5s should be able to run that

Thanks to its POWER4 heritage, the G5/PPC970 got stripped of any little-endian support the G4/e600/MPC74xx and predecessors offered.

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-June/082797.html

> no idea about X5000/Mirari.

The e5500 core can be run in little-endian mode (not sure whether true mode or just address swizzling), the e6500 cores on a future T2081-equipped Mirari as well but would have to do without VMX/AltiVec at that.

The T2080 Motherboard NXP-Prozessors Solution from Tyche is the better way for everyone.

A Motherboard with T1042 Prozessor / Mirari is the wrong way. No Thanks -)

Only T2081 or T2080 with Altivec and e6500 is the future

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Correction:
The T2080 Motherboard NXP-Prozessors Solution from Tyche MIGHT be the better way for some sometime in the future.
Sofar we've seen 10 years of big speeches, e-begging and failure from the PPC-laptop guys.

But let's say best case scenario and they do get something going this time around, what would we get? (in 2027 that is...)
Something that is (well might be) marginal faster than Mirari at over 1000€.


Sure Altivec and higher clock would be nice, but my real world experience is that a 2.5GHz PCIe G5 barely beats the Mirari and even falls behind in some tasks.
All (most) of the things that Altivec does should and could be offloaded to the GPU anyways.

And here we are where that Tyche board is not only an unknown on availability and price but also on actual performance.
Mirari seems to have done a pretty good job on getting the most out of RAM and I/O, areas where pretty much all previous "NG" HW has failed. Will Tyche be good on those? Hard unknown.


Just to be clear, if there is a T2081 Mirari or T2080 Tyche available at a reasonable price I will again raise my finger, but until then I got what is pretty much the 1st sensible/good NG HW since the Pegasos2.




[ Edited by Kronos 13.01.2026 - 09:20 ]

@Xersipan

T2080 from Tyche has one big disadvantage - very looong development time. It could have been here a few years ago and we can had MorphOS on it.
But this board still nowhere and Mirari is (almost) here.

So Mirari is good way. I also prefer e6500 core with VMX, so I at first take Mirari with T1042, and if there will be version with T2081 I will take it too

And if there will be sometimes, around 2035, Tyche, I will gladly use it too

[ Edited by sailor 13.01.2026 - 09:44 ]

Currently, Mirari T1042 is the only new board that fully supports MorphOS >now< - some smartasses might claim except the USB3 but that doesn't rule it out for the future and they will show up here soon enough, anyway, so enough of that - which makes it an easy choice for me in order to replace my ageing PMacG5 ;)

Is any OS other than Linux confirmed for this Tyche Motherboard ? At least I couldn't find any info.

I'm all for choices and I would also like to see some T208x based laptop, just don't let this project look like some ongoing cash grab without anything actually working if you ask me ...

So have fun running Linux on it if it ever appears and go on claiming it to be the better package.

[ Edited by cyfm 13.01.2026 - 22:25 ]

> Mirari T1042 is the only new board that fully supports MorphOS >now<

The fact that it was MorphOS that was adapted to run on the existing Mirari (prototype) and not the Mirari that was developed to be able to run a pre-existing version of MorphOS as is rather indicates that MorphOS supports Mirari (by deliberate decision), not the other way round.

> Is it confirmed for this Tyche Motherboard ?

Sorry, is *what* confirmed for it?

Hello

What does the average user need? Ask yourself this question...
-> A high-performance browser
-> A basic office suite
-> An email client
-> A photo manager with a few practical and basic options
-> The ability to print documents and photos in two clicks without needing an engineering degree.

And all of this in their native language.

I think that's what you should be looking for.

Well, one of them has already come true, Hollywood 11.