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[News] Cloanto Releases Amiga Explorer 3.5ANN.lu
Posted on 12-Mar-2000 17:48 GMT by Christian Kemp19 comments
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Amiga Explorer makes it possible to access the resources of an Amiga computer from one or more Windows systems. Read the full press release below. Amiga Explorer was first released in 1997 as part of the Amiga Forever package. Version 3.5 is the result of years of refinements and feedback, and is now being released as a stand-alone product. This new version includes a revolutionary self-install feature to copy the Amiga side of the software from the PC to the Amiga with no software other than a plain Workbench disk (any version from 1.2 to 3.5 - no internet, no PC filing system, no terminal software required)!

Amiga Explorer makes it possible to access the resources of an Amiga computer from one or more Windows systems. The computers may be physically connected with a "null-modem" serial cable, or via TCP/IP (e.g. Ethernet cards, or over the internet). Configuration is extremely simple and by default requires only one or two mouse clicks on the Windows side.

Unique features of Amiga Explorer include:

  • Automatic installation of the Amiga side through the same serial cable later used by the software itself (no additional software required). Before the release of Amiga Explorer 3.5 this used to be considered an impossible task!
  • - The Windows side can copy to and from the Amiga, and move, rename, delete, format and examine properties of Amiga files, directories and volumes through the familiar Windows Desktop and Explorer interfaces
  • Virtual floppy (ADF), hard disk (HDF) and ROM image files, very useful for archiving and emulation purposes, are created on the fly. ADF files can be both read from and written to Amiga floppy drives.
  • The Amiga side, including the self-installation part, works with all Amiga OS versions from 1.2 to 3.5
  • The Windows side works on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 (several other data sharing products do not run on newer versions of Windows!)
Additional information is available on the Amiga Explorer Home Page at http://amigaexplorer.com, where the software is available for immediate download for only $19.95. The sample screenshots on that page include an exclusive preview of GPSoftware's Directory Opus for Windows while it accesses an Amiga through Amiga Explorer!
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Posted by Plain English on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Good product.
Is there any software that goes the other way, i.e. accessing PC harddrives / printers from the Amiga? Would something like Samba be better for this (if you've heard of it, it's more of a Unix thing)?
Also, terminal based software so you can grab the Amiga's screen and use it as if it were on your PC? That would be really cool.
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Posted by Mike Clarke on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
To go the other way, you could get the Siamese 2.5. It mounts a PC: device on the Amiga which contains all PC devices (floppy, hard drives, CD-ROM's etc, basically anything that has got a drive letter on the PC).
MikeC
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Posted by KenH on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Is this a red carpet fore-runner anticipating a new Amiga that runs on x86 Windows?
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Posted by the man in the shadows on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Plain English):
Installed on my system is Samba as well as Envoy (for network printing). I also have the entire setup running with two macs, two PC's Linux/WinNT, and my Amy 3K which hosts everything. I would use the Amiga Explorer that cloanto offers but it is just too limiting in file controls. With the Amiga system hooked up to the net via a DSL line with the route transfers going back and forth between the other systems hooked to the network, it's easy surfing any site. Not to mention the fact that with the right software installed (it's not stable yet) you can display your workbench on any of the other systems that are hooked up to your local net. The only thing that I have to finish is the fire wall settings that I use through MiamiDX.
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Posted by Mike Clarke on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
I find the Siamese to be invaluable, but I never use the RTG mode. I'm actually using Siamese v2.1, and the RTG in this version barely works at all for me. It usually hangs. When i bought it, it came with the auto video switcher. Pressing Left-Amiga+C on the Amiga or F12 on the PC switches the control and the screen over to the other computer. Great it is. I switch the RTG mode off completely.
The Siamese will also redirect Printouts from the Amiga to the PC Printer, and set your Amiga clock to the PC clock. It also shares clipboards. Copying some text to the clipboard on the PC also puts it in the Amigas clipboard and vice-versa.
It would still be useful if you switch off RTG and get a manual monitor switcher. Then you will have one monitor, mouse and keyboard, along with the other extra bits.
MikeC
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Posted by Jim Farley on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (TorchLe):
I would suggest keeping away from this product. I was very interested in it at one point, but from the best I could determine from their website is it will only work on an AGA system in AGA mode. If this is the case it would be usless to me (Amiga 3000 ECS) even with a GFX card. I emailed the "company" to ask if it presently would work on an A3000, or if it ever would. Guess what? No response to email. I refuse to give $0.01 to a "company" who does not respond to email. You give them $150USD (or how ever much it is now) and it doesnt work, now they don't answer email, who's a fool? Not me!
Regards,
Jim
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Posted by Victor on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Mike Clarke):
The Siamese can use ethernet or serial connect. But if someone wants parallel connection then there is 'Amiga2PC' on Aminet. (It can't redirect screens to PC, but only mounts the PC-drives the same way [and free].)
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Posted by Matthew on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (TorchLe):
The last time I tried Siamese, it was full of bugs. So bad, in fact, that a normal workbench screen would garble, just from dragging icons and windows around.
Having watched the web site for a while, I haven't seen any updates, or any sign of a later version. I could be wrong.
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Posted by Matthew on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Plain English):
Samba isn't a unix thing. In fact, it was fairly horrible to do under unix/Linux, simply because it is not in the unix way of thinking.
And Amiga is a lot closer to the unix way of thinking than samba is - that's the problem.
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Posted by TorchLe on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Mike Clarke):
Is Siamese any good then? Thought about bying it, but everyone told me it was so
ful of bugs so it was useless. Anyone who has tested it and really think it to
be good? (is it still under development?)
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Posted by Victor on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Victor):
Pardon, it's 'PC2Amiga' (sometimes referred 'PC2Ami').
BTW, it wasn't mentioned directly that the Siamese2.5 DO redirect Workbench and other screens.
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Posted by Plain English on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Thanks for the help guys, I'll take a look at some of them options.
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Posted by cYB0rG on 12-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
PC2Amiga, need to try that ...
some1 know how to share the TCP/IP stack between a PC/AMIGA with a // cable ?
if u know that write me please...
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Posted by Paul Gallant on 13-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 13 (Mike Clarke):
I bought the siamese software a couple of weeks ago
to hook up my A1200 and my PC. I still cant get it to
work. there doesnt seem to be any faq or trouble shooting
pages anywhere. I havent recieved any replies from the siamese
people either. Has anyone got this set up? Is there any help
sites anywhere?
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Posted by Plain English on 14-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Matthew):
I know all about Samba.
No lectures please, don't correct what I say either.
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Posted by Francois Prowse on 14-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
What ever you do - don't buy a Siamese card....the hell I went through with that to find out how terrible it is. Probably only useful is you have a bog standard 1200, anything higher forget it.....you will only regret it and the total lack of support that the makers provide. Use VNC, Samba and ethernet...
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Posted by wilhelm on 15-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
I'm happily accessing the network computers at a hospital I work at
with NetPar (aminet). Prints quick and fast with pagestream and
turboprint no fuss or muss. Samba seemed quite huge and complicated
compared to this. I'm always amused using NetPar as the MIS person
said there was noway to interface with the PC based system. Even
more amused that a coworker with the latest and greatest mac can not
get his puter set up to print to the same printer each time and is
frequently chasing all over creation to find his printouts.
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Posted by wilhelm on 15-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
As above also use miami, hydracard, aweb, and yam. Now
if only I could get yam to pick up my email off the
network, I would be a happy camper. Accessing the net
is no problem and it is always muchfun seeing downloads come
in at 70000 bps. Despite my buggy old a4000/-060/cbgfx card
my screen loads and website changes are faster than the
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Posted by Bob Scharp on 15-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
Come to Amiga 2K
Seeing is believing
Come to Amiga 2K
Become a believer
Bob
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