Subj : BBS Software for the Amiga
To   : Vorlon
From : Oli
Date : Wed Jan 26 2022 11:55 am

Vorlon wrote (2022-01-26):

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 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.

I guess this is normal, if there is no dedicated support for the handling of the mouse cursor. In a proper VNC setup you would see a local mouse cursor and the remote one is hidden.

How remote is remote in your case? Samebuilding remote or in the cloud remote? Real Amiga or emulated? If it is a real Amiga, how fast is the network connection?

(The local VNC connection from PC to raspberry over LAN still has a very noticeable delay / drag).

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

There are PS/2 to Amiga keyboard adapters.

Another solution could be the PiStorm, which has keyboard and mouse "passthrough".

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/pistorm-keeping-the-amiga-alive/
https://github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm/wiki/FAQs

(I don't own an Amiga, so I haven't tested any of this, just thinking out loud).

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