Is anyone still working on Newscoaster for AOS 3.x or Morphos?
btw who is still using Newsgroups and which reader do you prefer.

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 15.05.2011 - 08:42 ]

I am using Newsrog-68k.

I am still owning and using Microdot 2.
Never found a better newreader!

@weiseb
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Afaik, no. The original author has the skills, but ceased its development because of not enough free time.
afxgroup made an OS4 port with several updates. No major features added so far.


[ Edited by AmigaMancer on 2009/8/2 22:08 ]

As far as I remember the sources compile straight out of the box under Morphos, provided no major changes have been made to its core you could still retrieve latest sources and compile it yourself (or have one of us done for you).

> provided no major changes have been made to its core you could
> still retrieve latest sources and compile it yourself (or have one
> of us done for you).

Just FYI, there has been a MorphOS native binary available for some years:

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2004-03-00174-EN.html
http://kaczus.republika.pl/tomasz%20kaczanowski.html#programy

There is a new version of NewsCoaster for MorphOS. It is not a fast hack, like my last version. This version should be much more stable than latest version for MorphOS and a little more stable than 68k version. This version doesn't use Nlist and Nlisttree classes. So this is possible, some of options doesn't work, like lately. If You find something working differently, please tell me about it. Also I made some changes in memory managment, and removed some bugs.

More info: http://kaczus.republika.pl/newscoaster/


[ Edited by Kaczus on 2009/10/10 9:19 ]

I'm not sure improving bugs is a smart thing to do; wouldn't it be better to get rid of them instead?

You are right :) Thx :)

@Kaczus

Thank you for the new version.
It works pretty well for me.

No stability issues so far, only minor quirk is the scrolling behavior:
It seems to be relative to the amount of items, so its slow with a few threads and jumps a complete screen on groups with many threads.

Any chance to for utf support?

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Yes, but no chance in this version. I'd like to make a stable version first.

New version is available. Only cosmetic changes now.

version 1.64 BETA2 now avaliable.

Thanks a lot Kaczus for this new version of News Coaster for MorphOS !

Beta 3 version :))

Looking forward to test this evening!
Really cool to have a newsreader which is still worked on!

Ok, i justtested the current beta and works very well.
Some suggestions/functions which can be very usefull:

1. Conext sensitive popups would be cool
2. At the moment a group is bold,
if there are unread messages in it.
Nobody reads all messages of a group.
It woud be much better if a group
is bold if there are new messages since
last viewed content of a group.
3. Prewiew of a message would be very cool
(see yam or simple mail for example).
4. I cannot navigate trough content of group
keyboard and select a message by space.


[ Edited by eliot on 2010/9/29 18:37 ]

[ Edited by eliot on 2010/9/29 18:37 ]

@Kaczus
Wow iconv support :)
For me as a german this is enough utf in most cases.

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1) to utf You must converting from other standards
2) with utf is for this day too much trouble on morphos. It needs to write new mui classes (lists and editors). But I can spend on programing only a few hours a week.

Because, code needs another big changes, latest version with some minor changes has changed status to FULL 1.64.

Heh - i had to do fast new "stable" version, there was stupid bug... Thx Andreas.