ollygd wrote:
We've recently started using Windows Server 2008 at work, and one of the nice features is the "Remote Application" function via Terminal Services. In previous versions, terminal services allowed access to a remote machine's entire desktop, but with this, individual applications can be sent to a client, from a TS server, as if it were installed locally.
I wondered what the odds of developing a compatibile RDC client for a suitably specced Amiga would be? You could open anything on a Server 2008 box, in Workbench. All the processing goes on in the server, and the presented application is little more than an image.......
Published applications are great, provided the client is up to the job of receiving data and updating the display quickly enough. However, even the fastest 68K CPU could have problems with this, especially with a lot of audio or graphical data.
Even if, hypothetically, I guess there could be a chunky-to-planar graphics data conversion done at the server end, then the planar data fed in compressed format to the Amiga... And similar for any audio, with it being reduced to low bitrate possibly mono sound, then for a local Amiga client to not have to do too much, this still might be too taxing to get a really usable experience.
- Ali
