Subj : BBS Software for the Amiga
To   : Bucko
From : Vorlon
Date : Wed Jan 26 2022 09:53 am


   Hello Bucko!

07 Jan 22 19:22, you wrote to me:

 Vo>>  In> on my web hosting server under a user account so far!
 Vo>>
 Vo>> There you will run into into issues. I've tried a number of times
 Vo>> to do remote headless on Amiga systems and the mouse movement has
 Vo>> always been a very frustrating time.
 Vo>>

 Bu> I agree with Vorlon, another way to look at what you are trying to do
 Bu> here, is running a Emulator inside a Virtual Machine which is
 Bu> basically and emulator.. WinUAE has a switch for the mouse but to be
 Bu> honest, it is just not worth the aggravation of trying to get the
 Bu> mouse to work perfect. I run my CNet Amiga on a dedicated machine, I
 Bu> picked it up for $30 on eBay as a lease turn in. You can get away with
 Bu> an Pentium 4 if needed, mine is an i3 with 4 gigs of ram 240 meg SSD..
 Bu> I run WinUAE in Windows 10, and emulate a A4000 with maxed out
 Bu> peripherals (Memory, video etc.) It's super fast and runs real well.
 Bu> You might want to look at doing it that way, you can use the
 Bu> machine headless if you want, I dial into mine via RealVNC and have NO
 Bu> issues at all. RDP is another story, when you exit RDP it will reset
 Bu> WinUAE thus killing the BBS.. Hope that helps a little..

Yeah. I just wish there was a *working* vnc etc, server for the Amiga. There are clients, but I don't want a client on the Amiga. I
want to control the Amiga from another machine. I have used KVM's before, but the Amiga keyboard isn't like a PC keyboard, so the only
thing that gets switched is the Display.

Speaking of Winuae and BBS's. How does the networking to the BBS work? I use/used a real TCP/IP stack on the Amiga (Easynet [Amitcp],
Miami, Genesis. Do they work under the *uae's or is it just the bsd.socket option used? How does the server side get it's ip address,
and accept connections etc?



Vorlon


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