I've been doing some experimenting. Greatly to my surprise, I can run xmame.x11 on the machine beside me and achieve acceptable performance! I was just playing Metal Slug, PacMan and PuzzLoop "remotely" and they both worked just dandy. I'm amazed, frankly; I just kind of accepted the fact that a network connection would not be fast enough to manage to update the screen. Wrong! The performance was just fine. My sound was playing on the remote server and not on my remote client, but I believe that I can configure esd to ship the sound to the client as well.
Anyway, this leads to some interesting possibilities. I have an old 486 with 16mb of ram laying about (most of you folks have something like that kicking around too, right?) and am thinking that I might be able to run xmame on that. Which leads me to my question. Is there such a thing as an X11 client for DOS? I'm familiar with http://www.ltsp.org, though I've never actually used it, but I'm thinking that this might be a bit of overkill for what I have in mind. I'm thinking of something more along the line of "Telix for X11" or something like that. The only DOS-based X11 client that I'm aware of is DESQview/X, and I've just discovered a VNC client for DOS as well http://c0w.inode.at/mjy/dosvnc.html Anyone know of anything else? To get a nifty remote-Xmame box all we really need is an viewer and a sound-export thing of some kind; I think we could even get away without remote write access and just about everything else too. A "very" thin client, as it were. Any thoughts? _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
