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The Magic Lantern source code management is transitioning from Subversion to Git. As part of this transition, the official source code base will be hosted on Github at Magic Lantern Studio. Instructions for building Magic Lantern Studio components can be found at mle-documentation. The move to Git also facilitates restructuring the code into multiple sub-projects and requires a different build environment to address software construction. The mle-documentation wiki describes this new environment.... read more

Wizzer Works is happy to announce the Alpha release of Magic Lantern Studio targeting the Java2D platform on the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system.

Application developers can use this release to develop titles for the Java2D platform using the Magic Lantern SDK. The new Magic Lantern Studio is based on Eclipse Oxygen.1a (4.7.1a). The studio provides tools for creating Magic Lantern projects and managing the targeting process for the Java2D platform.... read more

Wizzer Works is happy to announce the Beta release of Magic Lantern Studio targeting the Java2D platform on the Windows 7/8/10 operating systems.

Application developers can use this release to develop titles for the Java2D platform using the Magic Lantern SDK. The new Magic Lantern Studio is an update based on Eclipse Oxygen.1a (4.7.1a). The studio provides tools for creating Magic Lantern projects and managing the targeting process for the Java2D platform.... read more

Development of the Magic Lantern SDK for Android has been relocated to Github at https://github.com/magic-lantern-android-studio Android Studio projects have been created for each library and the Eclipse projects are being deprecated. For Android solutions, please refer to the source staged on Github.

Work is underway to provide Android Studio plug-ins that support the Magic Lantern application framework. These plugins will also be hosted under the Magic Lantern Studio project on Github.

Support for building the Magic Lantern components for Windows platforms using Visual Studio 2005 is now deprecated. The official build environment is now Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Wizzer Works is happy to announce the Alpha release of Magic Lantern Studio targeting the Android platform. The Magic Lantern Android Studio incorporates existing Android developer tools, extending them to help Magic Lantern title developers build applications for the Android platform.

Application developers can use this release to develop titles for the Android platform using the Magic Lantern paradigm for cross-platform development. The Magic Lantern Studio is an IDE based on Eclipse 3.7 and the Google ADT plugins. The studio provides tools for creating Magic Lantern projects and managing the targeting process for the Android platforms.

Wizzer Works is happy to announce the Alpha release of Magic Lantern Studio targeting the Java2D platform.

Application developers can use this release to develop titles for the Java2D platform using the Magic Lantern SDK. The Magic Lantern Studio is an IDE based on Eclipse 3.5.2. The studio provides tools for creating Magic Lantern projects and managing the targeting process for the Java2D platform.... read more

Magic Lantern is a framework for developing multimedia applications. It is designed to be a cross-platform solution for multiple targets such as desktops, game consoles and set-top boxes.

The initial release of the Magic Lantern Digital Playprint libraries and mastering tools has been released for the Windows 2000/XP platform. These libraries and tools may be used to create and maintain Digital Playprints, the binary file format used by the Magic Lantern runtime engine. ... read more

The initial release of the Magic Lantern Digital Workprint libraries has been released for the Windows 2000/XP platform. These libraries may be used to create and maintain Digital Workprints, the file format used by the Magic Lantern authoring tools.

An update of the Magic Lantern math libraries has been released for the Windows 2000/XP platform. This release fixes bugs with the InstallShield packaging, removing dependencies on Acrobat, DirectX and Java 1.5. The size of the package should be significantly smaller.

The initial release of the Magic Lantern math libraries has been released for the Windows 2000/XP platform. These libraries provide a linear algebra toolkit for floating-point and fixed-point real values.