Remote desktop CPC

[blackdalek]

This morning I woke up thinking... How difficult would it be to view (perhaps even control) the CPC's screen remotely from a PC? We already have CPCs with WiFi card expansions, and web interfaces to control various functions remotely. The next step is full remote desktop control of the CPC.

Having no personal background in hardware or software, I have no idea if that would even be possible.

What are your thoughts?

[ASiC]

It will be impossible to actually open a VNC (or RDP) connection to the CPC.
Main reason is that Z80 is nowhere near powerful enough to encode and send acceptable framerates of the video buffer over the network.


Even if the above was possible, I don't believe there's a way of passing keyboard and/or joystick commands over TCP back to the CPC without extra hardware.


On the other hand, you already can use IRC and Telnet. Maybe FTP will be added in the future..?

[genesis8]

It will be impossible to actually open a VNC (or RDP) connection to the CPC.
Main reason is that Z80 is nowhere near powerful enough to encode and send acceptable framerates of the video buffer over the network.


Even if the above was possible, I don't believe there's a way of passing keyboard and/or joystick commands over TCP back to the CPC without extra hardware.

I see a possibility for video only using a MP3, but it would need extra hardware. And as stated, the problem would be still keyboard and joystick.

[VincentGR]

Probably not possible.
I used to do this with an Amiga with 040. Slow as hell... imagine the Z80.