Is AutoPlay Media Studio still supported? or more recent updates available?

[Mark Tomkins]

Looking at the release notes today I can see that the last AutoPlay software update was 8.5.3.0 - back in October 10, 2018 Does anyone know if that's it now? or if the software is still in development as 5 years since last product update seems like a long time for any additional updates / patches or even new program releases.?

[Colin]

This has been covered many times already… Yes, it’s still supported. We’re here and assist customers who own licenses. It works the same as it did since the last update, we’ve made sure it runs on Windows 11, Ulrich created an Edge plugin etc.

There have unfortunately always been many more people who use AMS than those who actually pay for it, which makes further large scale development infeasible (read uneconomical). Don’t expect it to magically support Mac development or something. However, for those of our customers that still rely on AMS, we do have a maintenance update planned for later this year. It will likely come after updates for our other tools, but it will clean things up, and perhaps serve as a springboard to a future open sourcing of the codebase for those who want to try taking on larger challenges. If we can figure out how that would even work…

[Mark Tomkins]

No that's fair enough and totally understand the major development side of things. I had worked with Ulrich in the past on a project that I once worked on a long time ago using this software. I just wast sure if the company was either still running or if producing updates as nothing showed since 2018. I do have a genuine license to use the software and I was looking to re-new but on checking and seeing that there wasn't any "updates since 2018" I wanted to check prior committing to updating my version.

[Imagine Programming]

This has been covered many times already… Yes, it’s still supported. We’re here and assist customers who own licenses. It works the same as it did since the last update, we’ve made sure it runs on Windows 11, Ulrich created an Edge plugin etc.

There have unfortunately always been many more people who use AMS than those who actually pay for it, which makes further large scale development infeasible (read uneconomical). Don’t expect it to magically support Mac development or something. However, for those of our customers that still rely on AMS, we do have a maintenance update planned for later this year. It will likely come after updates for our other tools, but it will clean things up, and perhaps serve as a springboard to a future open sourcing of the codebase for those who want to try taking on larger challenges. If we can figure out how that would even work…

That's pretty interesting news!

[kingzooly]

This has been covered many times already… Yes, it’s still supported. We’re here and assist customers who own licenses. It works the same as it did since the last update, we’ve made sure it runs on Windows 11, Ulrich created an Edge plugin etc.

There have unfortunately always been many more people who use AMS than those who actually pay for it, which makes further large scale development infeasible (read uneconomical). Don’t expect it to magically support Mac development or something. However, for those of our customers that still rely on AMS, we do have a maintenance update planned for later this year. It will likely come after updates for our other tools, but it will clean things up, and perhaps serve as a springboard to a future open sourcing of the codebase for those who want to try taking on larger challenges. If we can figure out how that would even work…

This is something I will be gluing my eye sight to even if it's a few tweaks I am very interested in this news if the changes are good enough I will be renewing my version but I am on 8.2 right now and I can tell you it fully works fine on windows xp to windows 11 we do have to work around some things but it works fine for everything I build but I would love to push to a more up to date version and this might be the push

Thanks @Colin for popping in and giving us this little cookie crumb.