Re: Pics of IIgs VNC running

[RichardK-PB <atari@NOSPAMbtconnect.com>]

Greg Andrzejewski wrote:

> That's pretty cool. At first I thought you just had taken a screenshot of 
> your desktop opened it on the GS. How does VNC work on the IIgs exactly? 
> Marinetti?? Localtalk? I can't seem to find much information on the subject.

Marinetti, essentially. It's a GS/OS application, nice and small, and 
very basic. You have a choice of low or 'medium' in my opinion 
resolutions, examples of both on the page - the higher res is greyscale.

In my case, it's running on a LAN - AppleTalk and Marinetti's MacIP 
stack to an AWS95 running IPNetRouter connected to my ethernet LAN, and 
ocnnecting to a Macintosh G3 266 running OS X 10.3.7 via XPostFacto 
hackery. Given how 'stable' Marinetti is on MacIP compared to dialup (by 
all accounts), it should work on dialup just fine.

It's kinda slow at shifting data, on the Mac I'm using OSXVNC - hextiles 
take a LONG time, but raw (line by line, local updates) is tolerable.

It really was just a case of seeing how well it worked; the IIgs and Mac 
are in the same room. Obviously I have nothing to do with development or 
anything of this app - I saw a mention of it somewhere and downloaded it 
- I think I googled for IIgs VNC for a laugh.

Richard


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