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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: ollygd on September 05, 2008, 04:48:30 PM
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I'm not sure whether anyone as used the Remote Application feature in Win Server 2008, but it occured to me that a system like this could be used to run modern apps on Workbench. Obviously, there would be some restrictions, but the concept of running an application in a x86 cpu and have it presented on an Amiga desktop seems an interesting one to me.....?
Perhaps not entirely practical, but a nice way of extending the useful life of classic systems. Thoughts?
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A modern browser w/AJAX support is all that is needed for such things...
Other than that, a simple VNC client is another option.
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Do you mean something like RDesktop from Aminet?
It's not very fast and you need a graphics card to get the best colours, but it works well.
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I'm not familiar with RDesktop, but I imagine it is similar to the previous version of Windows Terminal Services. It would give you the desktop of the machine you wished to control, but not individual applications. VNC or AJAX would be fine, but wouldn't give you the illusion of running an application locally.
MS Terminal Services "Remote Application" gives the illusion you are running the software on your desktop i.e it only "transmits" the application window. So theoretically, you could "run" Office 2007 on a Win 98 desktop. All the processing is done by the TS Server, while the application appears to be running right in front of you. It works fantastically (I have it sending VMWare workstation instances to client P.Cs at work. It's just like it was installed locally)
I was musing that if a TS Client was developed for the Amiga Workbench, one could run very powerful applications - which were not actually run on the Amiga hardware itself. The whole process is, I agree, not practical, but it would be fun to use Workbench on a day to day basis again as opposed to "just for fun".
See here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733093.aspx
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You need to check RDeslTop out then, because it seems to do exactly what you want.
ie, you can run ANY Windows program you want from your Amiga!
Basically, the Amiga "dials in" to your PC and you then control the PC from your Amiga.