Subj : Re: BBS Software for the Amiga
To   : Bucko
From : Intangybles
Date : Mon Feb 07 2022 11:55 am

On 07 Jan 2022, Bucko said the following...
 Bu> On 08 Jan 2022, Vorlon said the following...
 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 basically
 Bu> and emulator.. WinUAE has a switch for the mouse but to be honest, it is
 Bu> just not worth the aggravation of trying to get the mouse to work
 Bu> perfect. I run my CNet Amiga on a dedicated machine, I picked it up for
 Bu> $30 on eBay as a lease turn in. You can get away with an Pentium 4 if
 Bu> needed, mine is an i3 with 4 gigs of ram 240 meg SSD.. I run WinUAE in
 Bu> Windows 10, and emulate a A4000 with maxed out peripherals (Memory,
 Bu> video etc.) It's super fast and runs real well. You might want to look
 Bu> at doing it that way, you can use the machine headless if you want, I
 Bu> dial into mine via RealVNC and have NO issues at all. RDP is another
 Bu> story, when you exit RDP it will reset WinUAE thus killing the BBS..
 Bu> Hope that helps a little..

Thanks so much for the input again! Yes a dedicated machine would always be
my first choice! I don't need to locate any - must have at least 4 I could
use on my office floor ;-) If was to go this way I'd been keep to try it out
on Amithlon as I have a spare old IBM that runs it perfectly! Sadly i'm not
in a position to run real hardware continually connected to the Internet
anytime in the near future. So.. Cloud based Amiga project it is! Wish my
luck! ;-)

Mark.

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