| Readme: | Short: Unofficial native Telegram chat client
Uploader: michele.dipace@kaffeine.net (Michele Dipace)
Author: Michele Dipace <michele.dipace@kaffeine.net>
Type: comm/tcp
Version: 0.0.99
Replaces: comm/tcp/TelegramAmiga-MOS.lha
Architecture: ppc-morphos
Requires: MorphOS 3.x with its TCP/IP stack
WHAT IS THIS?
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Unofficial Telegram Amiga: it uses the Telegram API and is part of the
Telegram ecosystem, but it is not made by Telegram.
Telegram Amiga brings real, live Telegram chat to the Amiga -- not through
a gateway, a proxy service or a web wrapper, but by speaking Telegram's
own MTProto protocol natively, from scratch, on your machine. You sign in
to your normal Telegram account, your chat list appears, and you talk to
people (and they talk back) on hardware that may well be older than they
are.
Everything is built in: RSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, SHA and the SRP two-
factor login are implemented inside the program. Zero external
dependencies -- no MUI, no ixemul.library, no AmiSSL, no TCP helper
beyond your system's own bsdsocket stack.
One program, two faces, one engine and one saved login:
TelegramAmiga - the native Intuition/GadTools GUI: chat list with real
profile-picture avatars, message bubbles, scrollbars,
mouse wheel, context menus. This package ships its icon.
The same binary also runs a full-screen text/console client
from a Shell -- the manual gives the command line.
WHAT CAN I ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
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Read and send messages in private chats, groups and channels. Download a
received file (right-click -> Download) or send one from disk, up to
250 MiB on this build, including files over 10 MiB.
Photos appear immediately as blurred previews, refine from a bounded download
and reuse decoded pixels from disk when reopened. Click one for a larger
progressive viewer, or disable inline loading on a slower machine and open
only the images you choose. Forward one message to Saved Messages in a
click, or choose another destination through chat search.
Use the pinned Saved Messages chat as a cloud transfer drawer between the
Amiga and your phone or PC. Reply to a specific message (right-click it).
Edit or delete your own messages. See
real delivery state: one tick = sent, two blue ticks = read, updating
live. See who is typing. Search for chats. Send messages from your desk
at work and find the conversation already synced when you get home to
the Amiga -- and the other way round.
Message times follow your Amiga clock. Unread badges and your chat order
survive restarts. The window remembers where you left it, and can open
on its own screen if you prefer a dedicated page for chatting.
GETTING STARTED
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1. Copy this drawer to a WRITABLE volume (not from the archive directly).
2. Double-click TelegramAmiga (or TelegramAmiga-TUI on very low-end setups).
3. First run walks you through the normal Telegram login: phone number,
the code Telegram sends you, and your cloud password if you use
two-factor. That is all -- next time it goes straight to your chats.
The login is stored in telegram-auth.bin next to the program. Treat that
file like a house key: NEVER copy it around or share it -- anyone who has
it has your Telegram session. Full EN and IT manuals are in the archive,
including per-platform notes and troubleshooting.
WHAT IS NEW IN 0.0.99
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ADDED
- "Support development..." in the window's Telegram menu, after Help: it says
where to support my work on Patreon and opens the link, or copies it when no
OpenURL command is there. Voluntary, nothing changes without it, and it
never shows on its own. The text client has the same two lines at the end of
/help.
- More reactions than the ten of the grid. When a chat allows more, the grid's
last cell is an arrow that opens every reaction it allows, ten to a row: in
a chat that allows all, the 69 free reactions in Telegram's order, and a
group's own list whole instead of cut to ten. The text client's /react takes
every standard reaction by name, and /reactions lists the names.
- Hide message, after a user asked to get rid of posts that do not interest
them in groups. Telegram lets nobody delete someone else's message for
themselves in a supergroup, so in a group or a channel the right-button menu
of someone else's message offers Hide message: it leaves the transcript and
stays out on every reload, kept in data/telegram-hidden-msgs.txt (the newest
256). "Show hidden messages" in the chat's menu in the list brings them
back. In a basic group the client also asks Telegram to delete it for this
account, so it goes from one's other devices too, and that cannot be undone.
The text client has /hide, on the last message received or on an id, and
/unhide.
- /ring in the text client, for the open chat: /ring on lets a group or a
channel ring, /ring off makes it quiet again, the same choice as "Enable
ring" in the window's chat menu and kept in the same file, so it holds in
both. Since 0.0.98 groups start quiet, and the 68000 build, which has only
the text client, had no way to wake one. In a direct chat on and off unmute
and mute it, and /ring alone says what the chat does now, Telegram's own
mute and /bell included.
- /ids in the text client, after a user asked what to put where /react wants a
message id: the text client never showed one. Switched on, each message
starts with its number, like #4821, which /react, /forward and /forwardto
take; off by default, so the lines stay as they were. And /react no longer
needs the number: without one it takes the last message received from the
others, never one's own, so /react heart is enough.
- 38 more emoji on the sheet, from the same Noto Emoji set: the free reactions
that were missing, among them the exploding head, the clown, the whale, the
trophy, the ghost, the unicorn and the three monkeys. They show in messages
and reactions, join the end of the emoji panel, and read as short words in
the text client, like (unicorn) or o7.
CHANGED
- The hint a lone / shows in the text client lists every command /help does,
on four lines of at most 64 columns. It had fallen behind: /reactions, /ids,
/hide, /ring and older ones like /swap and /diff were missing, and its
second line ran past 80 columns.
- More contrast in the dark colours, same hues, after a user asked for no dark
blue on black. The selected chat takes the desktop's selection blue, and on
it the time and preview are drawn in the full text colour. Sender names in
groups take a lighter shade of their avatar colour, the incoming bubbles and
the side panel stand a little further from the window, the read ticks are
lighter on one's own bubble, and the unread badge is a brighter blue with a
white number.
FIXED
- A message's right-button menu acts on the message it was opened on. It
remembered the message by its row, and in a chat with a full transcript
every new message moves each row up by one, so a message arriving while the
menu or the reaction grid was open turned the choice to the message below: a
reaction landed there, and when that message already carried the same
reaction of yours, it was taken away instead. Reply, Edit, Delete, Download
and Copy could miss in the same way. The menu now finds its message again by
id, and closes when that message is no longer loaded.
- Reactions on a photo, a file or a message with a link preview stay shown.
The history reader stops at such a message's media, short of its reactions,
and passed that unread field on as "no reactions": each refresh of the chat
wiped the reactions just added, and reopening the chat showed none, though
Telegram and the other clients had them. The history now leaves such a
message's reactions as they are, and the periodic reactions poll asks
Telegram for them once, the user's own messages included. Opening a chat
asks at once instead of waiting for the poll's twenty seconds, and the
answer shows on the same tick.
- Smoother round shapes on true-colour screens: the reaction chips, the unread
badges, the jump button and the initials discs. Their edge was a one-pixel
ring halfway between the shape and the background, with the shape one pixel
inside it, which read as a dark rim along the straight sides. Each edge
pixel now takes the share of it the true circle covers, in quarters, and the
shape keeps its full size. Paletted screens keep the hard edge.
A COMMUNITY PROJECT
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MIT licensed, non-commercial, written for the love of the platform.
Bug reports and wishes are very welcome -- testers on real hardware
(A1200s, A4000s, Pegasos, Sam, FPGA machines) are what moves this
project forward.
The icon is our own design. Carlo Spadoni optimised it for each system,
put it on a standard drawer for the drawer icon, and let me ship his
versions.
Source + issues:
https://github.com/kaffeine1/telegram-amiga
Development diary:
https://androidlab.it/en/telegram-amiga-mtproto-client-development-diary/
Support my work on Patreon (voluntary; no subscription
is required to use this software):
https://www.patreon.com/c/kaffeine1
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