Google again changed the access to YouTube for downloading files. It resulted in empty downloads in AmiTube or a error 500 or 404. One needs a javascript engine now to download from youtube. But even with the javascript (deno) installed, I noticed that most of the formats don’t work anymore only the audio only and video only work nicely. The only video+audio format still working is 360p and yt-dlp seems wrongly often use formats which it can’t download.
I tried newer versions of yt-dlp but they would not work on my old docker server, just because its a very old debian installation with python3.8 but for the later yt-dlp you need at least 3.10. The debian repository does not provide that. I had to redo the whole docker server in principle, because there where more changes needed, the agaconv program changed a bit, no need for the script starter anymore and a parameter for std-cdxl seems to be gone.
I often got complains about the MPEG conversation settings, so I changed it to a better Amiga fitting MPEG which automatically sets the width the 320 px and the height accordingly, therefore resized proportionally.
The AmiTube Client program needs no change its only the server needs to be updated. If you use your own server don’t forget to pull the update.
some small changes in AmiDream, bugfixing and introduced a daily image of a random image created very day, including a list of the last days, because the most just use the random image function as far as I see. So we just create a random image every day, which is then much faster to load for the users just want to see some random images to get idea what kind of text to write to create an image.
By request on amiga-news.de I also added a image save routine for the QR Code creator. The original code had this already but it was using VCL types (TBitmap and so on) but I dont want to make it an LCL application the LCL application wrapper is so huge and slow on standard 68k Amigas. So i made a new version of it using the free pascal own FPImage library. So here is the 0.2 Version of CreateQR with image save function.
I found a little source code on GitHub to create QR Codes. The Source is rather straight forward and simple with little changes, most about difference between Delphi and Free Pascal. So I created a little Version for Amiga, but not save an image as the original but print it to the console using the CRT unit with white and black background. It works nicely can scan with my iPhone.
Finished the implementing of image upload for MPW. it was more tricky as i thought. Usually I use AWeb to test the pages, but the upload file never worked with AWeb and the Free Pascal build-in HTTP Server. It never showed any files. A cross check with IBrowse and it worked. It took me some hours of debugging to find the bug in the Free Pascal HTTP Server code. But now it works without problems.
Besides that I introduced a template folder. When the data folder is empty the contents of the template folder is copied to data (for the first start for example). That way one can just overwrite MPW from the archive without destroying the own pages.
Menu entries for „New Page“ is now hidden when the client has no write access.
Today I released the Source Code of AmiFox under CC0 License on GitHub, like the other programs before. As for AmiTranslate some parts are not published, like the API Keys for the distributor and Itch.io which are included in the programs. But if you setup an own distributor you can put in your own URL and Bearer token to ah apikeys.inc and voila you have a full AmiFox Version. Alternatively you can use the single WRP Server URL as with every AmiFox version possible. Besides this the Serial number stuff is removed for now. No worry it does make no difference, only that the image and serial number is shown in the startup, no other effect.
I published the Source code for AmiTranslate on Github today with the same free CC0 license. Its a little bit different than the other Sources because it contains my DeepL API Key which I dont want to share in the source code repository. Therefore one file is missing, the include file (deeplkey.inc) with the API Key, but there is a template for that include file as template (deeplkey.inc.template) present. If you want to compile, apply for an DeepL API Key put it into the deeplkey.inc file. This Source also uses the MUIClass as GUI Toolkit so you need to as well to compile.
I found a neat little program hunkster, written in Free Pascal, to create an Amiga 68k Hunk file of a given file, which can be linked to your program, very nice if you want include everything into the Executable. The program was made for Windows only but also compiles without problems on Linux. The command line version of it also works out of the box on Amiga. In principle one could even compile the GUI version with the Amiga MUI-LCL but its far too slow and buggy, therefore I wrote a little MUIClass application which does the same as the LCL application.
The source code of MPW is now available on github with an open source license (CC0), basically use it as you like. It uses the fpc-markdown library which has an own license, check there. To compile you also need the MUIClass libraries.
