ISSTracker live puts the International Space Station on your Amiga desktop.
It displays the current ISS position on a world map, keeps a visible trail, and adds useful context
such as daylight state, terrain, nearest city, update status and space facts. The application is
built for AmigaOS 1.3, uses classic Workbench/Intuition UI elements, and fetches ISS data directly
over plain HTTP.
Feature List
v1.2.1
- Kept Update and Info button text fixed to Topaz 8, independent from the selected UI font.
- Fixed garbage characters after the font size value in the Font settings window.
- Synchronized StringInfo state for numeric input fields.
- Applied the same numeric field cleanup to color settings.
- Removed GACT_LONGINT from small numeric string gadgets to avoid Intuition display side effects.
- Updated the application version to 1.2.1.
v1.2
- Optional HTTPS support via amitls13.library (Aminet).
- Automatic HTTP fallback when amitls13.library is not available.
- Extended ISS data via HTTPS: altitude, velocity, visibility, footprint, and solar position.
- Day/night display uses HTTPS API data when available.
- Terrain display uses HTTPS coordinate data when available.
- Shows people currently in space, including spacecraft and crew names.
- Crew data is fetched once at startup, with one retry on failure.
- Crew list wraps across multiple lines.
- Startup message reports detected amitls13.library.
- Manual Update resets the automatic update timer.
Funfact: This is the first amiga program on OS1.3 ever wich is able to use secure communication
by TLS/SSL. :-)
v1.1
- Added color settings: water, land, map border, ISS cross, ISS dot, trail, text and background can
be assigned to available pens.
- Color settings are saved and restored on the next start.
- Improved support for higher color depths: graphics-card setups can use higher pen values.
- Added default pens: water 4, land 7, map border 1, ISS cross 2, ISS dot 3, trail 5, text 1, background 0.
- Added font settings: selectable font from FONTS: and adjustable font size.
- Font settings are saved and restored on startup.
- Button text always uses the system font at size 8, independent from the selected UI font.
- Fixed the font-size display in the settings window.
- Reduced unnecessary map redraws when opening/closing settings windows and using menus.
- Fixed quit-time crashes introduced around the color/font settings work.
- Version bumped to 1.1.
v1.0
- Live ISS position tracking via HTTP
- World map display with blinking ISS marker
- Position trail/trace
- Status display for Online, Loading, Error and Offline
- Day, night and twilight calculation for the ISS ground position
- local land/water detection
- nearest city, country and approximate distance
- automatic updates
- configurable update interval
- multilingual UI: English, German, Polish
- localized menus and status messages
- two-line status area with rotating information
- space fun facts in the selected language
- Europe proximity/over-Europe notification with alert beep
- readable UTC timestamp for last update
- saves window size and position
- fallback window placement if saved settings are invalid
- supports 2 to 4 bitplane Workbench displays
- map variant selected according to available display depth
- classic Intuition menus and gadgets
- AmigaOS 1.3 compatible
- network access through bsdsocket-compatible stacks
- no HTTPS, proxy or external helper required
(c)2026 Marcel Jähne
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