What ALB is doing at yesterdays Amiga Meeting? Writing a little Client for an Open Source AI Chat bot (Ollama).
Delphi added some AI features to their newest Version of the Delphi IDE (12.2). I don’t want to sent my sources to OpenAI or Google so I decided for the Open Source model which you can install on your own server via a docker container. And I noticed this model even works without GPU rather nicely so I could install it on my server and access it from a little Amiga program via REST API.
And yesterday was the monthly Amiga meeting here in Berlin, so I started to implement directly on my A1200 using FreePascal IDE. It’s little client to send text to this server and show the streamed answer, and it works.
All in all not bad for around 3 hours of work. The power of Free Pascal and MUIClass.
I created a simple ePub reader for Amiga. ePubs are just zip files with XML and HTML files inside which describe the electronic book. Not very difficult to parse. Of course on Amiga its not easy to show the real HTML so I just extracted the Text from the HTML and show it to the User as plan Text in a TextBox.
A little Demo to show how it works:
The app is available as always for Amiga (OS 3+), AmigaOS 4, AROS (i386, arm, x64 ABIV11) and MorphOS. Its the first Version 0.2 (very crude but it works, well enough for me now)
Working on some little enhancements for AmiFox, a special GUI for directly searching in common search engines and an easy way to translate every webpage to your favourite language using google translate.
it works quite well already, some minor glitches to solve, and of course the settings for own search engines to be added.
After some questions about AmiTranslate, I improved it a bit with some convenience features, namely buttons and menus to copy paste and clear the contents.
Changes:
Main menu with copy (result text) and paste (source text) and Clear
Buttons for Copy, paste and Clear
Button to switch input and output language
if Auto is selected the automatically detected language is used (if any)
McDope asked me to make a new AmiFox Version to the occasion of the first anniversary of the release of AmiFox. I already included the language feature which allows to tell google and other pages which languages you prefer. But I thought that as a feature for a new Version is a bit too little so I added a history function which records which URLs are browsed to, still unfinished but a start.
A new AmiFox is released its the Version 0.5. The most important changes are the possibility to download Stuff from Itch.io, which is not possible with other browsers on Classic Amiga. Also if you want to continue your surfing on the mobile it is possible to show the current URL as QR-Code. Also again some bugfixes for size calculations and there are some old TCP/IP stacks outside with a bsdsocket.library lower than 4. To be honest I don’t know if we could work with Version 3 but I guess not.
Added a basic TreeView to MUIClass, I tried the TreeView.mcc but it doesnt work very good so I decided to implement a TreeView from scratch.
it already works very nicely, I also added a simple example to show how it works. I did not write a documentation for it but the automatic docu is already available.
its a pity that its not possible to download files from itch.io directly, because they have a very crude download javascript. But on itch.io there are many Amiga games, so besides Aminet it’s most probably the most used platform for Amiga software.
So i tried out how to download their stuff, and it is possible, not too difficult as it seems. A first very crude version is seen here
it only downloads the first file and has no error checking, so there is more work needed but as a short technical preview its already good. Look forwards to next AmiFox Version.
I updated the online component of AmiFox, just some tiny bugfixes and improvements for avoiding anti-crawler detection and some modules update including some changes for newer chrome versions.
There is no update needed for AmiFox it stays at the current version. Only if you use the docker on your own server you might want pull the latest version. The AmiFox Server Version is still 0.3 because there is no functional change, but the underlying WRP Version is now 4.6.1 (up from 4.6.0), you can read this Version numbers in the About Box of AmiFox after you loaded a webpage.
Prepared a special Version of AmiFox for Amiga38. McDope did a lot of work to create a boxed Version of AmiFox to sell to people (later I decided to pay the bill and make the box a free of charge item).
The Box looks very nice and will be given out for free at the event (others already pre-ordered and will get the box by mail). Originally it was planed to have 50 boxes but the printer services was somehow very generous and send much more boxes for the same price. I added a little serial number and the A38 logo for the people getting this boxed version, every box has a unique serial number. But the serial ist just cosmetics and shown in the window and about. AmiFox is and stays free.
The new version has some new Features like a AREXX interface, a possibility to submit a webpage as command line parameter (both useful for OpenURL usage).
Especially for small screen Amigas (like Native PAL Hires Mode) parts of the interface can be hidden. either automatically (the status bar) or by button click (the text input bar).
