Short: RSS/Atom feed reader with HTML rendering and podcast playback
(Shareware)
Author: Yannick Buchy
Type: comm/net
Version: 1.4
Date: 07.09.2026
Architecture: ppc-morphos >= 3.19
Requires: MorphOS 3.19+, HTMLview.mcc (not included)
URL: https://www.papio-software.com/#rss-reader
RSS-Reader 1.4 demo
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A MUI-based RSS/Atom feed reader for MorphOS. It also plays the audio
attached to a feed, so it doubles as a podcast player.
FEATURES
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- RSS 2.0 and Atom feed support
- HTML article rendering via built-in MUI Floattext
- Feed groups with drag & drop organization
- Inline image display (JPEG, with automatic PNG to JPEG conversion)
- Audio/podcast playback via Reggae multimedia framework
- Link extraction with Open in browser and Copy to clipboard
- Asynchronous feed fetching and image downloading
- Localization support (English, German, French)
INSTALLATION
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1. Copy the RSS-Reader drawer to your preferred location
2. The HTMLview MUI class is required and is not part of this archive; you
may already have it. Without it the article view falls back to plain
text and images are not shown. The easiest way to get it is Easy2Install,
which downloads and installs archives straight from MorphOS-Storage.
3. Run RSS-Reader
4. Use "Add Feed" to add RSS/Atom feed URLs
5. Click "Refresh" to fetch articles
The drawer holds the catalogs for fifteen languages; the program picks the
one that matches your Locale settings and falls back to English.
feeds.default is the starting feed list, used only when no feeds.cfg exists
yet. Your own list is written to feeds.cfg and is never overwritten by an
update, so a new version can be copied over the old drawer.
USAGE
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- Left panel: Feed list with groups
- Middle panel: Article list with date column
- Right panel: Article content with HTML rendering
- Click a feed to load its articles, then click an article to read it
- Audio playback continues when switching articles or feeds
- Use < > buttons to navigate between article links
- Open, Copy, Play/Stop buttons to interact with links
- Use "Save Prefs" to save your feed list
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
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- A: Add feed
- G: Add group
- S: Save preferences
- Q: Quit
REGISTRATION
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RSS-Reader is shareware. The unregistered demo version is limited
to 5 feeds. To unlock the full version with unlimited feeds,
please register for 5 EUR.
Run Papio-RegTool, in this drawer. It offers two choices:
RSS-Reader - 5 EUR
I am already registered for Stylos - free registration
Pick one, fill in your MorphOS name and your e-mail address, pay with the
PayPal button if there is something to pay, then send the registration. The
free choice does not open PayPal at all: registered Stylos users get
RSS-Reader for nothing, they only have to say so.
Your registered version is sent back to the address you give, so make sure
it is right. The MorphOS name must match your machine exactly, character
for character - that is what unlocks the program.
COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 2026 Yannick Buchy
RSS-Reader is provided as-is without warranty.
THANKS
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The MorphOS Team, for MorphOS.
NewSense for bug reports and suggestions.
CONTACT
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Bug reports and suggestions welcome.
www.papio-software.com
HISTORY
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1.4 (07.09.2026)
- Application icon shown on the Workbench when iconified
- Edit an entry: rename a feed or correct its address, from the Rename
button or by double-clicking it
- A name you type yourself is kept when the feed is refreshed
- Fixed a hard freeze when moving quickly from one article to another:
the HTMLview load hooks run in a separate task and used C library
file calls, which are not re-entrant; they now use dos.library only.
A blocked image also returned 0, which made HTMLview retry forever
- Feed and article text now converted to the system character set, so
Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish and Romanian letters show properly
when the system uses a matching charset; where it cannot, the plain
letter is shown instead of a question mark (Wroclaw, not Wroc?aw)
- Thirteen new languages: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish,
Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek
1.3 - Fixed feeds moving to wrong categories when adding a duplicate feed URL
- Fixed buffer overflow in HTML entity decoding (multi-char replacements)
- Fixed unsafe strcat in CSS inline style parsing
- Automatic backup of feeds.cfg (.bak) before each save
- Increased maximum number of feeds from 256 to 512
1.2 - Removed debug log output from console
- French localization
1.1 - Stability fix
- Fixed freeze when rapidly switching between articles
- Default feed file (feeds.default) loaded when no feeds.cfg exists
1.0 - Initial release
- RSS 2.0 and Atom parsing
- Audio streaming and playback
- Feed groups and drag & drop
- Clipboard support for links