AmiVNC or other remote control for Amigas?

[RetroNinja]

Hello,

I'm trying to help someone with their Amiga. Sadly they are 200 miles away. Does anyone know of a remote control program for the Amiga?

I'm not terribly worried about the router/IPSEC part of the equation. And I have yet to do any testing on my own network (i.e. will a stock A1200 work). I'm hoping to gather some info before I start this project. Screen redraw rate should be acceptable/a bit slow, it does not need to be high. I'm just installing/running apps remotely, not gaming.

AmiVNC has some heavy requirements - it suggests a 68060. The remote Amiga is an A1200 (stock 68020), 6MB RAM, a floating point/math chip, a 3c589 PCMCIA adapter, and a TCP/IP stack. My system can be anything - another Amiga, Linux, Windows, etc.

I was also wondering about a terminal/telnet like program. Even a BBS on their side - maybe I could access the CLI shell?

 

[Xanxi]

There is also TwinVNC on Aminet.

A simplier way would be that your pal just copy his drive as an hdf and that you recreate his computer into WinUAE to fix his problem on your side.

 

[RetroNinja]

There is also TwinVNC on Aminet.

A simplier way would be that your pal just copy his drive as an hdf and that you recreate his computer into WinUAE to fix his problem on your side.

Thanks, that's something I wasn't thinking about. He's not a hardware guy so opening up his A1200 would be a stretch. But, his A1200 has an IDE2CF for the OS. I could probably find a 3D printable port for the A1200's back expansion port and hang his CF out through that.

 

[YouKnowWho]

There is also TwinVNC on Aminet.

A simplier way would be that your pal just copy his drive as an hdf and that you recreate his computer into WinUAE to fix his problem on your side.

@Xanxi , I have to agree with @RetroNinja, genius solution that didn't even cross my mind. So simple and logical.

 

[ElectroBlaster]

A pcmcia cf card adapter would be ideal for this!

 

[RetroNinja]

A pcmcia cf card adapter would be ideal for this!

Can Amiga OS boot off a PCMCIA card?


Does anyone know if the A1200 has a buffered IDE interface? I'm going to need a 50cm/16in cable to implement this plan. I've read that there are some issues with long IDE cables if the interface is unbuffered.

 

[YouKnowWho]

There was that Archos Overdrive PCMCIA A1200 drive that booted, so I'm thinking it has to be possible. Otherwise boot from floppy and then should work, right?

 

[RetroNinja]

Otherwise boot from floppy and then should work, right?

Eewwww, gross.

My brain won't let me do that. If there's a hard drive, then it HAS to boot from it. I just can't wrap my head around your perfectly reasonable solution.

I do have some 40cm/16" 44 pin cables on order. I ordered some 30cm/12" thinking that would work, but didn't. I guess the adage measure twice/cut once would have worked. Of course I should have measured at least once in this case.