Running RPCEmu through a remote desktop
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Glen Walker (2585)
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I will (hopefully) soon be the proud owner of a Jolla tablet (is there a definable condition which describes someone who has an obsession with left-field computer hardware?) This got me thinking – if I have RISC OS running under an emulator on another computer (say my Linux box upstairs) would I be able to use it on the tablet? Obviously the tablet itself would have to have some kind of remote desktop client software, but I am interested if anyone has done this with any other computer hardware (i.e., displaying the RISC OS emulator remotely on Windows/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android/etc). |
Mike Carter (36)
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Yes you can, you will of course have to workout a way of emulating a menu button click.
I’ve controlled my native hardware RISC OS machines using an Android VNC client, I think it was RealVNC and the VNC server was Adrian Lees http://adrianl.drobe.co.uk/alpha/vnc011.zip. Apart from a few colour issues it worked fine. |
Steffen Huber (91)
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I found out that on my Win7 system, I cannot remote control VirtualRPC via RDP. It just keeps crashing with an obscure DirectX error. The same thing if I install a VNC server with a special speedup dll (not sure if it was TightVNC or RealVNC or UltraVNC). Only the “slow” VNC method works more or less, and is indeed quite slow (we’re talking Gigabit network here). Not sure how the outcome with RPCEmu was. |
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Glen Walker (2585)
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Interesting and thanks for the tips – the Jolla runs Sailfish which apparently can use Android apps so maybe RealVNC could be a possibility… RPCEmu does have a “2 button mouse mode” that works quite well. Think I’ll have to do some testing when the hardware arrives and report back. |
