Subj : BBS Software for the Amiga
To   : Oli
From : Vorlon
Date : Thu Jan 27 2022 10:36 am


  Hello Oli!

26 Jan 22 11:55, you wrote to me:

Vo>>>> There you will run into into issues. I've tried a number of
Vo>>>> times to do remote headless on Amiga systems and the mouse
Vo>>>> movement has always been a very frustrating time.

Ol> I guess this is normal, if there is no dedicated support for the
Ol> handling of the mouse cursor. In a proper VNC setup you would see a
Ol> local mouse cursor and the remote one is hidden.

Ol> How remote is remote in your case? Samebuilding remote or in the cloud
Ol> remote? Real Amiga or emulated? If it is a real Amiga, how fast is the
Ol> network connection?

The machine was sitting on the same lan. I have tried the vnc server software for the Amiga it's self and it didn't work.
I have also tried with emulation, both on winx with winuae, and most recently using Amilator (A stripped down linux
install, and nothing but FS-Uae running). The mouse movement in all cases was very frustrating. On the Amilator setup, vnc
was installed on the host. (Didn't try directly on the Emulated enviroment)

V>> I want to control the Amiga from another machine. I have used
V>> KVM's before, but the Amiga keyboard isn't like a PC keyboard, so
V>> the only thing that gets switched is the Display.

Ol> There are PS/2 to Amiga keyboard adapters.

Yes there are, but they introduce there own issues. (I have PS/2 adapters for both Keyboard & Mouse for the A4000)


Ol> Another solution could be the PiStorm, which has keyboard and mouse
Ol> "passthrough".

Ol> https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/pistorm-keeping-the-amiga-alive/
Ol> https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm/wiki/FAQs

Ol> (I don't own an Amiga, so I haven't tested any of this, just thinking
Ol> out loud).

A Pistorm isn't an option in this case, as the two machines were an Amiga 3000, and Amiga 4000 with Accelartor cards,
128Mb of ram (Large for an Amiga), Cybervision 64 Graphics card (What's known as RTG on the Amiga), a X-Surf 10mb network
card, os 3.1/3.9.



Vorlon


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