cd rom gameplay over ethernet?

[monami]

simple question. can you network an amiga to pc and not just download files from the cdrom drive but use an amiga disk in the pc drive and play a game on the amiga?

[Chain]

you can try ftp filesystem (aminet) but seek in file isnt supported, so it will work just for some games

[orange]

you mean with WHDLoad? maybe.. try smbfs.
IIRC, many say you need to shutdown TCP for it to work, but I had not seen any problems with AmiTCP+Whdload.

BTW, I successfully ran 'Rogger Rabbit' from PC HDD on A500 networked with PC2Amiga. but it was sloooow, and its probably 'system friendly' game.

[orange]

I have just tested it and it works great with smbfs!

of course its a bit slower than HDD.
I used the PRELOAD option, just in case.

The games that work: SuperCars 2 (JST), Superfrog (WhdLoad), Arkanoid2 (WhdLoad)

there are some minor problems, I couldn't get icon on workbench for smbfs drive (I think there is an option for this) and the files cant have executable flag set.

[Trev]

Windows has no support for Rock Ridge or its Amiga extensions, which is why you'll be missing attributes, comments, and most likely case-correctness, if the disc does not also use Joliet. (CIFS/SMB lacks extensions for the extra attributes as well.)

Amiga OS needs ATA over Ethernet (or iSCSI, but AoE is a lot easier to implement, since you don't need an IP stack).

[da9000]

Trev wrote:
Amiga OS needs ATA over Ethernet (or iSCSI, but AoE is a lot easier to implement, since you don't need an IP stack).

What do you mean (by the "needs" part), Trev?