News

  • 2024-12-05: After creating Mops way back in 1986, project founder Mike Hore announced he is formally ending his involvement with the project. He gave a couple of reasons, including:

    • He is still using a large screen intel-based iMac, so doesn't have a way to progress work on an ARM version.
    • "But the main reason is that Mops just doesn't represent the state of the art in system-level programming any more. Object orientation has fallen out of favor as unnecessarily complex. With hindsight multiple inheritance wasn't worth the complexities of implementation and simply wasn't such a good idea."

  • 2023-04-23: aMops Code Generator 3.4 Download page

    • bug fixes
    • late-bind cache

  • 2023-01-03: MAX 6.1 Download page

    • reimplements multitasking
    • reimplements garbage collection

  • 2022-12-08: MAX 6.0 which reflects early rethinking based on the ARM Morello architecture

    • GPRs containing binary data have a full 128 bits available
    • capability has become the standard term for what was previously called codeword
    • Multitasking and garbage collection are on hold since they need updating for the new tagging scheme

  • 2022-11-04: aMops Code Generator 3.3

    • minor bug fix
    • initial support for Morello

  • 2022-09-23: MAX 5.2

    • re-implementation of multitasking
    • addition of garbage collection

  • 2022-09-04: MAX 5.1

    • class/object code re-implemented, simplifying things
    • bug fixes

  • 2022-07-23: MAX 5.0

    • major new version, incorporating some of the new ideas from aMops
    • rejigged opcodes

  • 2022-04-02: aMops Code Generator 3.2 Download page

  • 2022-02-21: aMops Code Generator 3.1

  • 2022-02-05: iMops 2.23 Download page

    • Fixed crash on launch on Monterey (macOS 12)
    • Other bug fixes
    • iMops is now a third party application without any developer signature. To avoid possible GateKeeper troubles, see file Read Before Launching iMops or iBucket in the distribution.

  • 2022-01-12: aMops Code Generator 3.0

  • 2021-11-17: aMops Code Generator 2.6

    • Can compile a definition under emulation, up to the point where it needs to make a new dictionary entry for the new definition.

  • 2021-10-08: aMops Code Generator 2.5

    • It can now completely load itself.
    • This target-compiled version of the code generator can begin to run under the emulator, up to the point where the big object_array "theNodes" is created in the heap.
    • There are new features to help in following an emulation trace.

  • 2021-08-25: aMops Code Generator 2.3

  • 2021-08-04: aMops Code Generator 2.2

  • 2021-06-22: aMops Code Generator 2.1

  • 2021-05-26: aMops Code Generator 2.0

  • 2021-05-25: new Mops website, built in Markdown

  • 2021-03-02: aMops Code Generator 1.5

  • 2021-01-26: aMops Code Generator 1.4

  • 2021-01-11: aMops Code Generator 1.3

  • 2020-12-12: aMops Code Generator 1.2

  • 2020-11-22: aMops Code Generator 1.1

  • 2020-10-30: aMops Code Generator 1.0

  • 2020-09-11: aMops Code Generator beta 1

  • 2020-08-14: aMops Code Generator alpha-3

  • 2020-08-07: aMops Code Generator alpha-2

  • 2020-07-31: aMops Code Generator alpha-1

  • 2018-12-29: iMops 2.22 distribution was revised. (Previous distribution seemed broken)

  • 2017-07-10: iMops 2.21 released -- Interruption into "Echo during Load" by Space key was made possible. Some bugs were fixed

  • 2016-11-12: iMops 2.2 released -- A maintenance release but now iMops is a developer-signed application.

  • 2016-05-05: iMops 2.11 released -- A maintenance release. Few bugs were fixed. Details are in a file "What's new".

  • 2015-08-01: iMops 2.1 released -- some bugs have been fixed and new STRING+ class source file included.

  • 2015-01-18: iMops 2.01 released -- a bug was fixed and object cascading feature was added.

  • 2014-09-07: PowerMops wiki restored after SourceForge hosted app shutdown.

  • 2014-07-27: iMops 2.0 released -- many bugs fixed and French language resource is included (thanks to GĂ©rard CastagnĂ©).

  • 2009-10-24 : PowerMops 6.2 has been released -- a few bugs fixed, and a new mechanism for creating arrays and lists of objects.

  • 2009-01-01 : Updated from a unique MediaWiki instance to the SourceForge hosted app.

  • 2007-07-07 : PowerMops 6.1 has been released! Dozens of bug fixes.

  • 2006-06-23 : PowerMops 6.0 has been released. Check out the latest release notes in the Open Me First document or go directly to the Download page to fetch your complete copy.