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Short:Experimental VNC server for Amiga w/C source (RTG or not !)
Author:stephane.guillard at steria.com (Stephane Guillard)
Uploader:stephane guillard steria com (Stephane Guillard)
Type:comm/tcp
Version:1.0.0
Architecture:m68k-amigaos
Date:2001-09-05
Download:http://aminet.net/comm/tcp/AmiVNC.lha - View contents
Readme:http://aminet.net/comm/tcp/AmiVNC.readme
Downloads:2860

About VNC
---------
VNC is a truly thin client protocol which enables the use of one computer
(the server) from another (the client), by :
- Enabling remote view of the server screen in a window on the client screen
- Enabling the use of the keyboard of the client in place of the keyboard of the
server
- Enabling the use of the mouse of the client in place of the mouse of the
server
More can be found in the provided HTML doc file.

About AmiVNC
------------
AmiVNC is an experimental VNC server for the Amiga.

This is the 8th public release of AmiVNC, bringing support for 256 color RTG
screens.
Read the doc !

Requirements
------------
To run AmiVNC you need :
- any native planar Amiga screenmode (PAL, NTSC, AGA etc.)
  or 15, 16, 24 or 32 bit RTG mode (CGFX or Picasso96)
- a TCP-IP stack (AmiTCP or Miami(dx) or any bsdsocket.library compliant stack),
- enough free ram to hold a copy of the Workbench screen,
- a fast processor (a 060/50 will be perfect), otherwise the client screen
update will be slow,
- a computer with a VNC Client (Mac, Unix or Linux box, PC, Amiga)

To build AmiVNC you need :
- StormC4/GCC

History / News
--------------
1.0.0
- Solved this looongstanding mouse scale bug which showed on wome configs.
  Thanks Denis Spach !
- Mouse support is now more system friendly thus compatible w/ MagicMenu etc.
- Code is 1/2 its previous size, faster and more stable (thanks StormC4)
- Added 68020 versions to the distribution

0.1.0
- Ported to and compiled w/ StormC4/GCC (smaller, faster).
- Added IntuitionBase locking (more stable).
- Reworked mouse event insertion (should remove mouse coord. errors).
- First PPC version (not distributed yet) : faster.
- Added DELAY parameter, to lower CPU needs.

0.0.15
- Added VVA support : BGR233 pixel encoding (enable this with VVA tooltype
  or -a on the command line). Reduces all screen modes to 256 colors, speeding
things a bit.
- Palette refreshing bug fixes for palette screenmodes (planar and chunky).

0.0.14
- Bug fix : password setting with S: in an AFS or PFS filesystem did not work.
  Reason : AmiTCP net.lib (with which I link) strangely alters creat() behavior.
Now using Open().
- Bug fix : when stopping AmiVNC with CTRL-C signal, memory was freed twice.
  Reason : I had not understood what CXBRK() is.

0.0.13
- Added support for 256 color RTG screen modes (at last !). Indeed, when
  I saw working 256 color planar modes I thought it would not be that hard
  to have 256 color chunky modes too ! Now, there should not be that many
  screen modes not supported.

0.0.12c
- Added a planar only version for users who don't have Picasso96 nor
Cybergraphics
  at all. See in the "planar only" directory, and read the html doc !

0.0.12
- Added support for Amiga planar modes (YES, AT LAST !).
- Removed the StopAmiVNC tool. To properly stop AmiVNC,
  feed it with a BREAK C (only when it is waiting for incoming sessions).
  If you use Executive, you can use the nice MUI Commander for this purpose.
- Added icon Tooltypes to set parameters.
- Added user commands to be executed when client logs in or logs out.
- Added log to file, thus silent mode.
- A few bug fixes.
- Documentation update.

0.0.11
- Added the StopAmiVNC tool, to properly stop AmiVNC (only when it is waiting
for
  incoming sessions).
- Enhanced keyboard support (supporting arrow keys, CONTROL, SHIFT, Lamiga =
Lalt, Ramiga
  = Ralt etc.). Better, but still not perfect.
- Enhanced mouse support (handles ieQualifier). Better, but still not perfect :
in YAM,
  you can drag your messages but when they come onto a drop area, they are
unselected.
- Allows screen change IF new screen is the same RGB mode. I did not think it
would be
  very useful, but indeed I use it ! Aborts connection when screen changes if
new screen
  mode is different (as said somewhere above, the VNC clients abort when they
receive a
  mServerInitMsg message in the middle of a session, and this message is
necessary to
  change the resolution).
- More command line options :
    -e to force Big Endian flag
    -(r|g|b)<value> to force red | green | blue bit shift on color encoding,
useful if you
     have color trouble. Legal values are 0, 8, 16, 24. Default is -r8 -g16
-b24.
    -l<size> to limit network packet size when sending initial screen update.
Useful if you
     have too many network collisions. Default is no limit.
- Speed restored under Picasso96 with screen depth = 16 bit pixels. Still slower
under
  CGFX or with screen depth > 2, because still using ReadPixelArray for
compatibility,
  and sending 4 byte pixels. Will try to fix that.
- A few bug fixes.

0.0.10ra
- Deals with active screen, not necessarily Workbench (this does not mean you
can open
  a screen in a session !).
- No longer a one shot daemon. You can re-connect. Stop with CTRL-C when the
server is
  waiting for connections (if you break it at another state, you may loose
memory).
- Corrected acquisition of raster pointer, which worked under Pic96 but not
under CGFx.
  Thanks to Steffen Haeuser.
- Changed all color encoders to ARGB (32 bit on the wire), and ReadPixelArray().
This
  is slower, but works with all CGFx and Picasso96 screen modes with depth > 8.
As 
  a side effect, AmiVNC is even smaller than before !
- This version is successfully running on my setup, with both AmiTCP, Genesis or
  Miami as a TCP stack, and Picasso96 or CFGx 4 as RTG system.

0.0.9 :
-  Fixed ObtainSocket() call, works now with Miami
-  Added 24 bit pixel support
-  Added Cybergraphics support
-  Added setting of listening port (5900 may also be used by other softwre)
-  Fixed documentation
-  Still much to be done

0.0.8mt :
-  Initial release on Aminet


Contents of comm/tcp/AmiVNC.lha
 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  777    2423  32.1% -lh5- bf48 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/AmiVNC-Planar.¶
[generic]                 2386    7722  30.9% -lh5- 6960 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/AmiVNC-Planar.¶.info
[generic]                13767   66059  20.8% -lh5- 4358 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/amivnc.c
[generic]                 2784    5906  47.1% -lh5- b34b Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/AmiVNC.readme
[generic]                  779    2526  30.8% -lh5- 89ca Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/AmiVNC.¶
[generic]                 2381    7722  30.8% -lh5- b2e4 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/AmiVNC.¶.info
[generic]                 3790   15226  24.9% -lh5- d232 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/d3des.c
[generic]                  787    1737  45.3% -lh5- af6f Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/d3des.h
[generic]                11610   35068  33.1% -lh5- 1bc9 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/Doc/AmiVNC.htm
[generic]                10026   10026 100.0% -lh0- 3355 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/Doc/Image1.gif
[generic]                 1641    1641 100.0% -lh0- be00 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/Doc/Image2.jpg
[generic]                 1360    1360 100.0% -lh0- fbdf Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/Doc/Image4.gif
[generic]                19203   36156  53.1% -lh5- f70f Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/Executables/Planar/AmiVNC.020
[generic]                19201   36092  53.2% -lh5- 801a Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/Executables/Planar/AmiVNC.060
[generic]                20850   40024  52.1% -lh5- 3fa5 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/Executables/RTG & Planar/AmiVNC.020
[generic]                20709   39724  52.1% -lh5- 1714 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/Executables/RTG & Planar/AmiVNC.060
[generic]                 2224    8437  26.4% -lh5- 8214 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/ievents.c
[generic]                 6507   21980  29.6% -lh5- ea8b Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/rfbproto.h
[generic]                 1356    2996  45.3% -lh5- 6ec0 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/vncauth.c
[generic]                  762    1427  53.4% -lh5- 5036 Aug 31  2001 AmiVNC/vncauth.h
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total        20 files  142900  344252  41.5%            Sep  5  2001

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