Archives by ALB42

AmiTranslate with DeepL

Posted by ALB42 on 8. Juli 20237 Comments

Usually when I translate texts from one language to an other I use DeepL to do it, it makes better results than Google translate in the most cases (at least if german is the target language). It also has an API to use and the first 500.000 chars are free, so I created a little program for Amiga to use that API.

It’s stupidly named AmiTranslate I know very unimaginative but hey seems the name is not used already, so why not. Of course the program needs an Internet connection and SSL (OpenSSL3 on MorphOS; AmiSSL on all other systems) because it talks directly with the DeepL server (via https) and it needs the texteditor.mcc.

Of course for some of the languages there is the problem of showing the chars (e.g. russian) for that I included a PDF writing function and a plain UTF-8 Text output then you can use other programs to read the actual text. of course nicer would be to make a real TTF output maybe later.

I also removed some languages which does not work at all (even the PDF output, like japanese, korean and chinese)

If you have an own DeepL key you can add the ToolType „DEEPLKEY=<key>“ to the icon, then even my 500.000 chars are used you can still use your own, it’s free so why not.

Downloads at the programs Page

Text to Image AI

Posted by ALB42 on 27. Juni 20232 Comments

Of course it’s perfectly possible to use any text 2 image webpages like getimg.ai with AmiFox on Amiga. But of course a better way is to make a specialized app for it using hugging face with stable diffusion.

It also contains Magic prompt which can produce more sophisticated prompts or even a complete random prompt. Gives really nice pictures sometimes.

Chatting on Amiga with Large language models

Posted by ALB42 on 25. Juni 2023No Comments

If you want to chat with large language models e.g. with ChatGPT or some Open Source models you can just use your Amiga with AmiFox. for Example on https://chat.lmsys.org/ you can test out multiple models and even let them battle against each other.

But of course also other pages like huggingface can be used, choose what even your like. Now available on your Amiga with AmiFox.

AmiFox AREXX and parameter

Posted by ALB42 on 15. April 2023No Comments

Introducing AREXX commands for AmiFox, so you can send a URL to AmiFox to view. If the Browser is idle it will directly start to load the new URL. If still loading another URL it will remember the URL and start it after the current one is finished loading, maybe later also stop the current task, atm its easier that way.

Wit this new AREXX command of course one can use an AREXX script but even better you can use programs like openurl to directly send urls to your favourite Web-browser… or AmiFox 😀

AmiFox-Server for RasPi

Posted by ALB42 on 1. April 2023No Comments

To check if the releases of AmiFox Server work I tried that on a RasPi, fresh install, the only thing you need to install is the Chromium-browser and start the WRP.
sudo apt install chromium-browser
wget https://github.com/alb42/wrp/releases/download/v0.3/wrp-arm-linux
chmod a+x wrp-arm-linux
./wrp-arm-linux

AmiFox-Server for everyone

Posted by ALB42 on 1. April 2023No Comments

The AmiFox Server can already be used via docker container with everything you need installed, but this works atm only for x64 linux with docker installed. But the original WRP was already prepared to cross compile to multiple targets, so I made a release with all the platforms available which includes, Windows, Mac or Linux on a RasPi, there you can start the apps directly. You might need some additional packages though, for example a current Google Chrome / Chromium Browser browser must be installed.

Check github release page for more

AmiFox 0.3

Posted by ALB42 on 27. März 20239 Comments

A new version of AmiFox is ready for release, I fixed some more bugs the last days. The 0.3 Version is a big step forward for usability of AmiFox. Most of these features I already introduced in the blog entries here so just a short recap.

  • Copy Text from selected webpage (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
  • Copy Clipboard from Server (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
  • IFF Format (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
  • send longer texts to page (needs texteditor.mcc)
  • Mouse wheel support
  • Shift cursor up/down send as Page up/Down (AmiFox-Server 0.2+)
  • Error message when Datatype could not load image
  • send Youtube URLs to AmiTube
  • send Google Maps and OpenStreetmap positions to Mapparium
  • AROS Version atm i386 and 64bit ABIv11
  • Read URL at Mouse position
  • direct download of catched URL at mouse position
  • save Webpage Image
  • Copy/Paste URL

Downloads as always on the AmiFox Page or with the Update check inside AmiFox.


If you using an own AmiFox Server please note that you must update to the latest Version to get all the Features, The Current Version should have the Version Number „AmiFox-Server 0.3“ visible in the AmiFox about (after at least one page was loaded) or in the footer of the AmiFoxServer webpage, next to the WRP Version number.

AmiTube 1.4

Posted by ALB42 on 24. März 20233 Comments

A new release of AmiTube is ready. The biggest enhancement is the Search by ID window for easier handling of YouTube URLs.

A second improvement is the self made AREXX Port for AROS which make it possible to send URLs from AmiFox to AmiTube when you are on a Youtube Video page. (all other platforms had it before already)

  • Bugfix for Get Original Window when no entry is selected
  • Search by ID Window added for easier URL handling
  • Support for Youtube shorts (movies in portait format)
  • show the time left when downloading videos
  • AREXX port for AROS

Download as always on the AmiTube Page

First sunny day

Posted by ALB42 on 18. März 2023No Comments

Today is the first sunny and warm day, so I took my bicycle out an drove my usual round course. Curious how much his winter and other stuff in the last month affected my fitness status. And to be honest I’m quite suprised it’s not that bad, today my usual 20 km short round course, average speed 27 km/h… thats not bad at all, my record for that course is around 30 km/h, so 27 is rather good.