Remote desktop on Amiga

[HellCoder]

Hi,
I'd like to have only one machine on my desk and stash all other machines away out of sight. One of them is a Win machine. How well does RDesktop perform on the Amiga?, can anyone share some knowledge please ?

Regards,
HC

[jj]

as afraikm there is a version of real VNC for the aming that should work with vnc on the pee cee, but ii would imagine that is till be slooooooowwww  unless you have a fast miggy

[darksun9210]

I seem to remember there being a version of VNC for the amiga. it worked alright with a graphics card based miggy, but you needed a fairly meaty machine to deal with pushing AGA display modes to another computer. there was a PPC build but it wasn't that stable with my A4000PPC...

Amiga VNC server and client

[Matt_H]

I've found the Amiga RDesktop client to be very usable for basic tasks and much faster than VNC on my 060.

It's still kinda slow, however, but I think a lot of that can be attributed to my ancient PC.

[alexh]

Just in case no-one has googled it yet

http://www.hd-zone.com/rdesktop/rdesktop.htm

[HellCoder]

Thanks for the Info, I assume my A1200/060 with BVision (in desktop) should do the job fine. Now to buy myself a network card.

[Boot_WB]

Have (finally) installed this and found it much faster than the other VNC solutions out there.

As mentioned above though, it is still a bit slow.

I've tried the arguements "rdesktop NOMOUSE 192.168.1.3" to reduce unnecessary bandwidth usage, but the switch has no effect - the mouse updates are still sent.

Anyone optimised this to be really snappy?

I'm using BPPC/040 Bvision (1024*768*16) setup with warpDT installed (not sure if that makes any difference) and a Netgear MA401 wireless PCMCIA card using AmiTCP/genesis stack.

[EDIT] - just visited the website - latest version now has NOMOUSE support, and is further optimised.  Requires donation for access.  I eagerly await the latest version through email.

[Boot_WB]

The latest version is a lot faster and nicer than the previous (free) version.

I`d highly recommend getting it - just send a donation using PAYPAL - the URL is in one of the posts above.

The e-mail arrived overnight with the archive as attachment - Thanks Darren!

Darren is also going to ask the developers to look at compiling a WOS version (currently there is only 68K, MOS & OS4).

This beats the ass off of Amiga VNC.  :-)

[motorollin]

I have used TwinVNC and it is *excellent*. There are versions for 020, 030, 040 and 060 included in the archive. It feels really quick on my Blizzard 1260/Voodoo.

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moto

[pierre]

anybody ever get vnc to work on the amiga?

[Legerdemain]

I wonder what could be considered an acceptable donation...

I was just about to make a donation, but it will be rather small, and it almost felt silly... like €5 or something...

[HellCoder]

anybody ever get vnc to work on the amiga?

Yes, I've got it working on two Amiga's. On a A1200/060/AGA and on a A1200/PPC/BVision, but I'm using it to control my PC.
Works like a charm!

[pierre]

hmm, is it built into 3.9 I remember seeing some vnc files?

[Hizoap]

Hi

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1134

Works ok on my setup....

[Dragster]

Hi,

yes.. rdesktop works great, most if you have the "donation version".. :-)

I''ve been trying to use the rdesktopmui gui with that version but it doesn't seem to work.. I have the rdesktop executable in the same dir.. after setting the parameters I click on "connect" button.. but nothing happens.. however command line works OK.. any ideas?

cheers!

D.