MorphOS 3.20 with Papio Office, Claude AI and more on AmigaOne X5000

 It has been quite a while since I did any mucking around with MorphOS. It doesn't mean there hasn't been any activity in the world of MorphOS - just I didn't have the time to focus on it. Indeed MorphOS 3.20 is now released in 2026 and I wanted to try it out!

In addition there is some interesting new software available for it I will try out here on MorphOS 3.20, like the Papio Office suite, Claude & OpenAI client, Momento Photo manager, Wayfarer web browser and Iris mail program updates and more! Let's dive in!

The last time I played around with MorphOS seriously was on the X5000 back in 2020, installing and running MorphOS 3.12! You can read more about that on my blog post: MorphOS 3.12 on X5000

My Powerbook G4 systems that run MorphOS are stored away, and I don't really use them anymore in 2026 as they have various hardware issues with USB ports and displays, which makes sense - they are over 20 years old after all. 

MorphOS 3.20 apparently supports the upcoming Mirari PowerPC system board, which will make it the first available to purchase (new) system since the AmigaOne X5000 in the late 2010's. But Mirari is not yet available, so that leaves me with the X5000. Which, along with the supported Sam460 system is also no longer for sale. That said, Acube systems announced recently they are also working on a new PowerPC board called Tyche to replace it.

The AmigaOne X5000 can run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition and also runs MorphOS, and that system has been stored for a long time. The reason for that is because the last time I fired it up, it didn't work at all. 

With plenty of other projects I was working on, I couldn't be bothered trying to fix it at the time and so it went into storage, but now in 2026 I decided to fix it finally.

One frustration of X5000 is that you have to choose whether to run AmigaOS 4 or MorphOS. Not because it can't dual boot them - it can. But graphics card support is VERY different between the two operating systems.

AmigaOS 4.1 Final edition with the latest Radeon HD drivers and Enhancer 2 from A-Eon allows the use of Radeon Southern Island chipset and Radeon RX graphics cards, opening up more possibilities for modern games to be ported to the system.

MorphOS is someway behind in this graphics card support, and until 3.20 didn't support Southern islands chipset graphics cards. It now has some support for these cards, but not 3D and 2D overlay support as yet.

BTW I read up that some people are putting two graphics cards in their systems to solve this - one that AmigaOS 4 can use, and one that MorphOS can use - the setup is quite involved though. I am happy to keep AmigaOS 4 on my X1000, Sam460 and A1222 and keep X5000 purely for MorphOS.

So I still need to choose MorphOS or AmigaOS to run on the X5000, and from the testing on the X5000, it appears clear I need to change the graphics card as there is no output at all, even though the machine itself is running ok.

I put in a Southern islands graphics card, connected my previous original X5000 SATA hard disk running AmigaOS 4.1 Final edition and the machine came to life, proving the issue was the graphics card. 

While I had AmigaOS 4.1 Final edition running, I updated it to the latest Update 3 release from last year and the latest Enhancer release.

I also installed Heretic II that I bought last year, which takes good advantage of the Southern island chipset support. It is unusable on the A1222 due to the lack of hardware FPU. It works perfectly on the X5000 under AmigaOS 4.1 Final edition Update 3.

Quake 3 also runs well.

Anyway, I then powered down the X5000 and removed the graphics card, since it is not usable on MorphOS. 

To move forward, I will need to get a new graphics card that is supported for 3D and 2D overlay support under MorphOS.

Graphics card support on MorphOS is much like AmigaOS 4, that is, patchy.

There are specific ATI/Radeon cards that are supported under MorphOS, but only a small number of those actually have full 3D hardware and 2D overlay support.

Without this support, games and demos don't run well at all. So, you need one of these cards if you want to do this. 

I previously bought a X1950 ATI Radeon card for the X5000, as it was top of the pile performance wise for MorphOS at the time. Sourcing it was hard as these cards are quite old now, and it came from overseas.

Given this card has now completely failed, I had to find a new one and sure enough, six years after the last time I bought one, I couldn't find one.

I searched through the model numbers on the MorphOS support site to locate a model with 3D and 2D overlay support that I could actually find. 

Eventually I found this ASUS X1600 PRO PCI-e graphics card. It was available locally and quite cheap.

This card has DVI and VGA output (and S-Video). No HDMI but having DVI means I can use a DVI to HDMI converter to connect to my HDMI screen.

Time to remove the case on the X5000 again.

Another annoying thing is the audio card that comes with the X5000 system works under AmigaOS 4.1 final edition just fine, but not MorphOS.

I have a SB Live PCI audio card which does work under MorphOS, which I also have to swap in to the X5000 when I want to use MorphOS. This is another reason why dual booting is not an option annoyingly.

Here  is the new X1600 graphics card installed in the X5000.

I disconnected the AmigaOS 4.1 final edition SATA disk and reconnected a new MorphOS hard disk, which I decided to do as a fresh install rather than upgrading the old version, which at 3.12 was a lot of versions behind the current 3.20 release.

With everything installed internally that is needed for MorphOS in the X5000, and case now closed up, I burned off MorphOS 3.20 to a CD-R and booted from the DVD drive from the early boot menu.

MorphOS 3.20 boots up from the CD quite quickly.

MorphOS boot speed is so much faster than AmigaOS 4.1 final edition on the same hardware, even when using the CD! More importantly, I had a display and the MorphOS desktop soon appeared at full resolution, showing the new card works well.

I then set to work on the installation work:

In case you are wondering, the HDMI screen is being shared between the Pistorm 500 in the Checkmate 1500 plus case, the AmigaOne A1222 and the X5000. That's why the pile of keyboards and mice in the photos.

I have covered the installation of MorphOS many times in the past, so I don't plan to repeat that again here. You can look back at some of my earlier blogs posts here for more detailed step by step process - it has not changed much since then.

Both ethernet devices (onboard and seperate ethernet card I use for OS4) are detected by MorphOS during the installation..

One thing I did do differently though is I adjusted the default size of the System partition, as I wanted 10GB for it.

The rest of the disk I will sort out later.

The installation then gets underway:

Install now completed!

After the reboot I removed the CD so it boots from the newly installed hard disk partition:

MorphOS's workbench screen is called "Ambient" and the nicest thing to say about it is that it is "Amiga-like". It has some functionality carried over from AmigaOS, but adds plenty of new functionality and features. Windows have DOpus/Windows style function menu buttons, iconify buttons and more.

Icons are true colour PNG and look very nice. It can display normal Amiga icons just fine too. 

Blue dominates the styling, which of course you can change if you want - but I like Blue a lot so I am happy to leave it.

I set to work setting up the remaining larger partitions on the 2TB hard disk.

The default file system type will get MorphOS upset if you create partitions larger than 127GB.

I found I needed to use SFS2 file system in order to create partitions above the 128GB barrier limitation that the default file system type forces on you.

I could then save the drive configuration, reboot and format the newly created drives.

Here is the HDConfig setup after I finished on my 2TB hard disk - I setup DH0 as system drive with 10GB, Work as SFS partition 128GB, then DH2 and DH3 as 862GB SFS2 volumes to store music, videos, photos and larger files:

You see the DH0 partition setup below:

Here is all the volumes from the AmigaShell - there is a MUI version of Shell under MorphOS, which allows for tabbed shells, and more options too:

The interface of MorphOS 3.20 is clean and crisp:

On a standard install (with no registration) you get 30 minutes to play with it before it slows down to be unusable. You can reboot to reset the timer as much as you want. 

If you register it, as I did, you run the RegTool under the Tools drawer to start the process, which prepared the registration info and tied it together with some unique hardware info from your machine to send off (internet access is needed for this). 

After some time you get an email with the cost and you pay for the license (which includes all upgrades for free). I used PayPal for this. You then get a license keyfile to place in the system drive as per the instructions, which then unlocks the time restriction. The license is tied to this machine - it will not work on any other machines, including another X5000. 

Note that it is currently not possible to register a virtual MorphOS system (eg. run on the Kyvos setup I reviewed earlier this year), so unfortunately MorphOS can only be used in demo mode under Kyvos. You need a real PowerPC based system that MorphOS currently supports to run the full unrestricted operating system.

The single Preferences application in MorphOS brings up an older MacOS X style preferences application divided into sections.

I like this method compared to the modern macs adoption of ipad/iphone preferences below, where now we scroll through piles of options in one left pane to see the options for that option on the right pane that appears...it sucks. With Golden gate released recently you can even resize the window, which is just ridiculous. The dumbing down of MacOS features to eventually become iOS continues....

Anyway, back to MorphOS, where it's display settings are an obvious copy and paste from Windows display preferences, with some additions naturally.

IControl from AmigaOS has been changed a lot in MorphOS, wirth many options and screen/desktop settings too:

Date/time settings look nice, with internet time syncing available too if you want it.

The USB stack is Poseidon, originally an add-on software and drivers for USB support on AmigaOS, but now fully integrated into MorphOS.

Anyone familiar with Poseidon on AmigaOS will feel right at home here.

MorphOS uses Panels as a replacement for the Amidock in AmigaOS 3.9.  By default there is no Panels configured in MorphOS. You need to add them in yourself. Personally I think they should create a default one with a handful of important things in it, so people know it even exists!

This is available in the Ambient settings in the title bar menu. Confusingly it is not in the preferences app for some reason so many people could miss that it is available and built in to MorphOS.

Ambient settings also allows you to customise what menu buttons are visible on the windows on the Ambient desktop:

Moving on there is a lot more to see with MorphOS 3.20 as delivered out of the box, before we even add anything to it. Utilities includes a number of useful programs.

MUIProCalc is certainly nice, providing a full scientific calculator, rather than the usual basic ones operating systems come with:

The included graphical editor works well also:

The Graphics board application shows the Radeon X1600 series graphics card I have installed in the X5000 - the OS only detects 256MB though, when this board actually has 512MB installed:

The CyrusPlus Thermals utility shows the CPU usage and temperatures internally in the X5000:

Looking at the WBstartup drawer next, we see a Mixer application which is run at system startup:

Again similar to the Windows mixer application of many years ago, it is conformable and easy to use:

In AmigaOS 4 the mixer is an add on from Enhancer pack, and for Amiga OS 3 it is only available for sound cards with mixer applications included with them, like the AmiGUS and Picasso IV concierto for example. MorphOS has it built in:

Some games are also included with MorphOS, like Wordy, which is based on the popular Wordle game:

You need to guess the word in 6 guesses. You get some tips on whether each letter in your guess is the right letter in the wrong place, or in the right place, or not the right letter at all. Rules are shown below:

It is fun, still, in 2026 to play this game:

I lost - by the way, is SEGRE even an English word? I have never heard of it.

Diamonds is another included game - a candy crush variant:

A web browser called Wayfarer is also included, based on webkit and still being actively updated in 2026. Compared to the old Odyssey on AmigaOS 4, Wayfarer is way more advanced and much more capable in terms of websites that work with it.

I tried ABC news website, which works quite well on Wayfarer:

YouTube also works quite well if you use it in TV mode, and spoof Wayfarer to be a AppleTV ore similar device in it's settings - logins work just fine, MFA also works, unlike in Odyssey on AmigaOS:

Playback of videos works well in Wayfarer too, but the screen grab software doesn't grab it unfortunately. Looks like Japanese fonts are not downloaded with the download fonts option in MorphOS either.

Wayfarer's website includes a useful FAQ section that covers how to get this working:

Iris is an included modern email client you can use with Google for example. I didn't play with it today, but I have used it in the past and it works well.

MorphOS Storage is an important website for MorphOS users, and it is where you can download a lot of MorphOS software.

So, I got to work installing SDL, and a number of other applications for MorphOS 3.20:

I also set to work copying the very large amount of music, mod files, games, photos, music from my QNAP network shared drives to the empty partitions on MorphOS. I can browse the QNAP from the Networks icon on the Ambient desktop:

As you can imagine, this was going to take a long time - days as it turned out. Sadly copying over network is slow with so many small files - I probably should have just connected a hard disk to the system. But anyway, whatever.

I used the Applications drawer on the System partition to install my applications downloaded from MorphOS Storage:

One new addition to MorphOS 3.20 worth covering is the new backup software called MirrorBackup, which is included in MorphOS as supplied:

You can backup your drives to a local partition, or a network drive if you want:

For whatever reason, backing up to QNAP didn't work for me:

Backing up the system to a drawer on another partition though worked well:

I downloaded a newly released simple CD player application to try out playback of audio CD's on MorphOS. It didn't grab album art or track names from the internet unfortunately, and is a pretty plain GUI compared to AmigaAmp for example, but it plays audio CD's just fine on the X5000:

I have MorphOS native demos to try out on it too, like this music disk Saturday's at Joe's, although there is only a small number of scene demos native to MorphOS:

If you run some classic AmigaOS 68060 demos that are compatible with MorphOS like the Elude demos in the mid to late 2000's, they run quite well - indeed, I can run two of them at the same time on the X5000:

I downloaded Grunch, which is a tool to help easily download and install MorphOS software and deal with updating them, too, like rexxsyslib.library, which I couldn't find anywhere else:

Sadly not all software downloads are working - AmiNetRadio for example doesn't. It used to, so I guess whoever is hosting it has taken it offline. 

It's been a few years since I saw any updates to AmiNetRadio and when I did find it elsewhere, I found it it doesn't work on MorphOS 3.20. Apparently it works on earlier versions, but I am not interested in running older versions just to use one piece of software. Hopefully someone finds a solution to get it working again soon.

I also played around with IntiliousHorny, which is MIDI sequencer software that runs well on MorphOS. I connected my USB UM-1 midi connector to the X5000, which is in turn connected to a Roland MIDI output device.

Poseidon USB stack detects the USB device immediately.

I needed to install the CAMD USB driver for MorphOS so it would work with the Horny MIDI sequencer. Once done I could select the UM-1 as MIDI output device in the Horny software.

I really enjoyed listening to a number of MIDI songs through my X5000 on MorphOS 3.20:

There is also some good tracker software working natively on MorphOS to make Amiga modules with, like Milkytracker and a conversion of the classic Protracker:

I also tried out some MorphOS ports of some classic games like Doom which, as expected, run perfectly on the X5000.

Newer game ports like Cromag Rally also work perfectly under MorphOS:

TORCS is a 3D racing game simulator, and is also good fun to play:

The 3D support in MorphOS is not as advanced as AmigaOS 4 due to newer AMD Radeon graphics card support than MorphOS right now, but what does work runs very well indeed! 

Games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Doom 3, Quake, etc, also have MorphOS versions.

Fortis is another interesting recently released game on MorphOS in 2026:

It's nice to play a new 3D game on MorphOS that isn't a 3D first person shooter or racing game:

I also have some other commercial MorphOS games I bought a number years back like Ace of Hearts and Tower 57, which work great on MorphOS 3.20 on the X5000.

Tower 57 was a kickstarter released retro style run and gun shooting game for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and on Steam for PC/MacOS. It is still a lot of fun to play using MorphOS 3.20 in 2026:

Moving on from games now, what is very interesting to try out on MorphOS 3.20 is the new Papio Office suite released recently. With it, you get a word processor, spreadsheet software, presentation software, air printing, contact management and more.

It is not free software, but you can try a demo of it. 

Papio Office suite includes Stylos (word processor), Sigma (spreadsheet), Diapos (presentations), IPP-PrintScan (driverless printing and scanning), NoPaper (scanning and document management) and Cardex (card file)

I chose to buy Papio Office suite as I wanted to be able to save files and have no limitations, and also to support such development effort. It costs EUR89.90. All updates for the registered version are free.

There are also additional applications you can buy (and try as demo version) like the Papio Design suite that includes Folios (page layout), Graphos (vector drawing), Momento (your photos) and Pixelios (pixel painting, formerly Croquis). I am trying out the demo versions of some of them here.

I can hear people saying they can install 30 plus year old Amiga software like Final Writer, Wordsworth, etc to do work processing, and similar aged classic Amiga spreadsheet and presentation software "for free".

Ok, maybe. I have done that too in the past.

But none of that software supports importing or exporting to modern Microsoft and other common office document formats like ODS, DOCX, PPTX, XLXS, RTF and PDF. These new applications do.

And seriously, when is the last time you actually used Final Writer or Wordworth to do something genuinely productive and useful in 2026?

Without the interoperability to modern document formats, it is just too limiting, and people don't want to deal with that anymore in 2026. maybe twenty years ago, when that software was less than ten years old, but not today.

MorphOS 3.20, AROS and AmigaOS 4 are next generation operating systems, working to genuinely push forward what AmigaOS like operating systems can actually do, to drag them into the modern era and allow us to do productive work with them in 2026.

The Amiga operating system through AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS is evolving and working hard to become more relevant in 2026. Developers are doing great work, and it deserves recognition, support and thanks from the community.

I can hear some people saying, "why bother?". Well for those people, I guess this operating system and hardware is not for you. I fully respect that. I don't agree, but I understand and respect you.

For those people who are not interested, please also respect people who do want to push the system capabilities forward also. We are very interested!

Classic Amiga FPGA and emulation solutions work great for those people who want to scratch the nostalgia itch and replay games from their youth, and happy to live within the restrictions of the software and hardware released in that era. I have many of these solutions too and reviewed many in this blog.

I can tun classic Amiga games via emulation on MorphOS 3.20 as well - and it works great. I can play new release classic Amiga games on it too, like Masters of Minefields. 

But I don't really care about trying to run the bulk of the 40 year old software on MorphOS in 2026 anymore, even though I can do it.

That said, MorphUAE is a great modern solution for running Classic Amiga games and legacy AmigaOS 1.3/2.0/3.1/3.2/3.5/3.9 setups if you want it.

You can run native Amiga workbench applications under MorphOS too, as long as they don't try to hit the original classic Amiga hardware directly without the operating system interfaces.

Hardware solutions like Pistorm and Vampire accelerators are opening up new software possibilities on the classic Amiga, but even that is a tiny speed bump compared to what the X5000 and similar next generation powerpc based systems can achieve. 

The Pistorm and Vampire solution allow us to use RTG workbench screens, networking, play low quality videos in special converted formats, play some RTG software, and play mid-late 1990's MS-DOS 3D game ports that were not possible on classic 68k Amiga systems. That is genuinely great to see, but I think that is as far as that development can go. The speed and capabilities of 68k hardware will always limit what is possible, although I know there is plenty of interesting hardware and software development going on in 2026 for it - I enjoy that too!

The limitations are why I bought the X1000 in 2012, Sam460 in 2014, X5000 in 2016, and an A1222 in 2024. It's why I bought AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS, and buy games and applications released for them still. It's why new PowerPC systems are still being made like Mirari and Tyche to run them on. 

I know AROS also now has a Raspberry Pi ARM support which is also exciting. I believe in a modern Amiga operating system platform still.

AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS communities are quite small. MorphOS and AmigaOS 4 run on small runs of modern PowerPC hardware - we are not linux with thousands of active developers pushing it forward daily. 

Development is slower naturally as a result - but don't ever think it is not happening. Development continues. 

The recent resolution of the long running dispute with Hyperion and Amiga corp (or whatever it is called these days) for the last decade and more finally means more development effort on pushing forward AmigaOS 4 (and AmigaOS 3.3) rather than feeding greedy lawyers retirement funds, and that can only be a good thing.

The developments for MorphOS 3.20 and AmigaOS 4 mean we can now support more modern Radeon RX and HD graphics cards using modern PCI-e connectors - we can play games that support OpenGL ES, MESA and 3D acceleration that opens up games simply not possible on classic Amiga systems, even with Pistorm or Vampires installed. It gets me very excited to see this!

You will not be playing 1080p MP4 videos in full HD on AmigaOS 3.2, even with Pistorm or Vampire accelerated processor capability. I tried using AmiVision this year and even with a linux machine doing all the heavy lifting of decoding and sending the video over the network, this hardware struggles to playback even a low resolution stream! 

You can do this on X5000, X1000 and A1222 using AmigaOS 4.1 with the latest Enhancer pack and Radeon HD drivers in 2026. YouTube playback works well on MorphOS 3.20 as I already showed earlier using the modern Wayfarer web browser.

The haters will probably reach for their iPad, Samsung or other android tablet, smart TV or other streaming devices, sneer and say this hardware is too expensive and still can't do what those devices can do for much less money. 

Ok, fine. Enjoy your modern tablet/smart tv made by corporations making billions of dollars and endless developers on staff. Please stop giving people who are trying to push things forward on smaller platforms (with far less money available) a hard time! I appreciate what the MorphOS/AmigaOS 4 platforms can do, without expectation of it being able to do everything a modern system can do - it can do way more than a classic AmigaOS system can do - for me, that is progress.

I enjoy seeing the Amiga do more than the original creators ever dreamed possible. And it is, thanks to the efforts of dedicated developers on AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS. Only Amiga makes it possible. And it 2026 it continues to have my full attention.

Anyway, time to get off my soapbox and take a look at Papio office suite.

Stylos is the word processor. I am playing with the latest version (at the time of writing) released on 21st September 2026.

It allows you to import common Microsoft DOCX documents, and export in that format also.

It support network and Airprinting documents, integrating with IPP-PrintScan, which uses modern bonjour printer discovery and works out of the box with my modern Brother MFC-L3750CDW colour laser printer. 

Stylos supports many modern word processing features. Modern word wrapping, Image insertion, tables, HTML links, modern fonts, spell check, and much more.

But for me, the ability to import and export in DOCX format is the most important. I tested importing a word document from my Mac and although some formatting was lost, the import parts of the document were imported well. This is a huge step over what a classic Amiga can do.

Papio office suite includes a launcher so you can run whatever suite program you want without needing multiple launchers for each program in your panel (dock) on the ambient desktop. Below I have Sigma (the spreadsheet software) open alongside Stylos with a Microsoft word document I imported into Stylos.

Of course things like Visual studio macros are not going to work given we don't have that software on MorphOS (hell, that doesn't work on MacOS version of Microsoft Office either), so I don't care about that so much.

Next I tried Diapos, the presentation software.

I imported a Microsoft PowerPoint PPTX presentation I gave a few years ago at a Amiga retro group meeting in Brisbane. It is not perfect, formatting again is not perfect, but it works.

I can run Sigma, Diapos and Stylos at full speed on MorphOS, multitasking well.

Moving on to Momento, the photo management software. It works very well indeed. I was pleasantly surprised. I pointed it at my newly copied Photo drawer containing over 35,000 photos. It didn't crash out trying to index it.

Photos display quickly, and I am very happy to have a solution for this on MorphOS.

While I was in the mood for trying out new software, I bought Hollywood 11 and the latest Hollywood designer, which is software you can use to develop games, applications or whatever on MorphOS, and have it compile to work on AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS4, AROS, Linux, MacOS and Windows. You can even produce Android compatible applications! 

Hollywood has a very large collection of regularly updated plugins allowing it to work with so many different kinds of files natively, and to support more advanced functionality of application development toolsets. New ones are often being added also.

I then set to work installing it.

It has seen constant development over many years, and still keeps adding new features. It now also works on AmigaOS 3.2, as well as older AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Windows 11, MacOS, and Linux (ARM/X86/X64).

It personally feels great to support such development software in 2026 - it allows us to develop software on MorphOS/AmigaOS4 or even classic Amigas and produce software that can run on all these platforms, Windows, MacOS and linux. It is amazing.

There are a bunch of demos included to show the sorts of things you can make with Hollywood.

You can learn the language syntax, and get coding and compile your programs from the Hollywood program, or you can use the seperate Hollywood Designer if you prefer something more graphically based an easier to work with at the start!

Or, in this modern age of AI tools, you can also use the latest Claude and OpenAI API connections using the new MorphOS AI cloud software called AI4MorphOS to come up with a solution for you! I was keen to try this out.

Let's see if I can produce a Hollywood program on MorphOS 3.20 with the X5000 using AI4MorphOS with Claude!

There is a bit of setup work involved in getting this client working on MorphOS with Claude (which is what I will use to test it), so I will cover a bit of that here as the process is a little bit unclear. I will also cover what it can (and can't) do.

Straight up, I realise a number of people don't want to use AI tools for such purposes. But then again, quite a few people do want to do it. 

AI slop is everywhere and I don't like it either. I am proud to say all of my content is 100% me. No AI tools used.

As they say, you can't put the genie back in the bottle. People are using AI tools to do things - lot of things - we have to accept it and work with it. It's not going away.

The company I work for also aggressively uses AI tools to develop software, hardware and for admin purposes too, and most likely if you work for any company in 2026, they are also using AI tools to some extent. 

Kids and students use AI tools to do their homework and university papers. Many developers and content creators now use AI tools to make games, music and videos. 

People often seem to blindly trust it's output even though it is 100% not to be trusted. I have extensive experience at work using it and have a lot of experience with prompt engineering, setting up MCP servers, building skill plugins and more. 

I find that the AI tools often spit out endless garbage and nonsense (which it presents like it is factual and true) that needs to be checked, rechecked, fixed, and fixed again and again. AI tools flat out lie, they miss critical steps even when clearly defined and fencing built to protect from it, they often don't follow instructions consistently. Even the tools themselves tell you this and tell you to check output - it is often wrong. 

That said, AI tools are rapidly getting better as people pump more information into it and build up the LLM (large language models) capabilities. 2026 is as dumb as this technology will ever be - it is only going to get more skilful with the sheer number of people and companies actively training it and feeding it information willingly. 

You are training AI tools every day just by using any Google, Apple, or Meta product on your phone, tablet or computer. In addition AI client software that is not licensed specifically for enterprises has no fencing to protect personal data from being used to build LLM models - OpenAI is a great example of this. 

This privacy breach goes way beyond cookies to track your activity in your web browser. Any one globally can now find out any information you feed into any AI tools and any data you willingly give it access to read or create, even by using apps on your phone, tablet or computer. 

There should be way more controls and protections around AI tools and their use, and I hope this is sorted out sooner rather than later as it is already quite scary what is being done with AI tools. Technology in AI tools is as usual developing way faster than the safeguards to prevent misuse of it. Be really careful.

AI4MorphOS helps with privacy more than most AI desktop clients do. It only uses API calls to Claude and OpenAI, and it is not allowed to do it's own internet based research. Beyond the API calls to use Claude, the data exists only on your local computer. 

Personally I would love for the client to connect to a local hosted LLM on my own machine rather than commercial cloud based APIs, so nothing goes out to Claude, OpenAI or anyone else for that matter. But maybe a future release will give us that. For now, the website for AI4MorphOS explains how the AI agent works quite well:

I have a subscription to Claude, which is why I am using it for testing this on MorphOS. In Claude's website, you need to go to the API platform section, and setup an API key for the local MorphOS client to work with, so it can have access to your Claude subscription. 

The AI4MorphOS software will not directly connect to Claude like the Claude desktop client on Windows/MacOS does. It needs the API key setup first.

I added $20 to the Claude platform so I could generate an API key and play with it, and a very short life on the API key I generated to cover the period of testing only.

With that done, I next needed to download CACert files for the AI4MorphOS client to do TLS connections to Claude API. Mozilla hosts CACerts in the PEM format needed, so it is easy to download the file needed, and pop into the AI4MorphOS drawer on MorphOS.

The API key I generated from Claude platform website then needs to be added to the configuration example default.json file provided in the AI4MorphOS drawer - I followed the instructions provided in the archive and moved it to the config drawer, and that part worked fine.

I created a drawer called ClaudeAIWorking so all files I give access to in AI4MorphOS (and Claude) are limited to this location only.

I then closed and reopened the AI4MorphOS client and now I could select the AI LLM model from Claude that I wanted to use in the session - so the API key is working:

I can now get to work with Claude in the AI4MorphOS client! I asked it to show the features of MorphOS 3.20 compared to earlier versions. 

As mentioned, I wanted to create a simple example program using Hollywood script (hws) on the MorphOS machine as below. It spat out the code as below. So let's try it.

I went to the working drawer I created earlier and it has put the new hws file in there. (I did some earlier runs too)

This one is welcome_orig.hws. I opened it in the MorphOS editor:

I went to the Shell and used Hollywood to run it. Since this is a script, it is not a compiled executable yet - it needs Hollywood to run it at this stage.

The program runs on MorphOS just fine - simple, I know, but I was just testing it:

Next I fired up Hollywood GUI and created a project using the hws script I created with AI4MorphOS above. 

It appears in my projects section of the Hollywood 11 GUI. I can run it from here of course, but there are also options to compile it into an executable. So let's do that next.

When I compile it, I get a bunch of options for the target executables to create:

I created MorphOS, AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, MacOS (ARM) and Windows (x64) executables of this test program too.

It works away for short time, and then advised compilation completed successfully.

Going back to the working drawer, I now have a number of new excitable files for the requested target systems:

Here are the MorphOS, AmigaOS3 and AmigaOS4 executable versions:

I ran the MorphOS executable and it works no problem! My first AI generated program on MorphOS!

Of course I can do way more, but for now hopefully this shows you the possibilities and that we can use modern AI tools on MorphOS 3.20.

This AI4MorphOS is limited to the local machine working directory. It has no internet access to research, unlike Claude and OpenAI official clients. It is a privacy thing, and I agree with it - although it does slow things down a bit of course. You need to feed your own research results from Wayfarer into the client for it to be able to use it with Claude. This is explained ion the screenshot below by the client itself:

I hope this post has given you some insight into how far the latest MorphOS 3.20 has come, and some of the new interesting software available for it in 2026. 

It is well worth playing around with MorphOS 3.20, even if you are using it on an older powerbook g4 laptop or via Kyvos on a modern computer, which is of course a much cheaper entry point than an X5000.

I will continue to explore MorphOS 3.20 applications and new software now that I have a working X5000 setup again. It is still a lot of fun tinkering around with it in 2026!