MKShare Released On AmiStore - Software News - News

Software News : MKShare Released On AmiStore

Posted by broadblues on 2016/12/3 13:50:36 (1984 reads) News by the same author

I'm really pleased to announce that MKShare is finaly ready for publice release and available to download from AmiStore for just £5.00 (plus VAT).

Resized Image

http://www.broad.ology.org.uk/amiga/mkshare/

MKShare enables you to seamlessly share your mouse, keyboard and clipboard between several AmigaOS computers, reducing desk clutter and avoiding the need for KVM switches which are often reported problematic with Amiga based systems.

For your £5.00 you will get the MKShareServer which runs on the central computer with the mouse and keyboard attached and the MKShareClient with runs on up to 4 client computers. As additional bonus you get a FREE MKShareClient68k which enable you to control an a1200 with networking or perhaps a WinUAE based amiga too.

Unlike systems like synergy a low level protocol is used that mimics the behaviours of input device with packets closely matched to the underlying event messages, giving a smooth amigalike feeeling to the remote mouse. You can hardly tell it not a 'real mouse'. In most cases lag is minimal, the exception being when the server of client are under very heavy CPU mode.

I've been using MKShare between my SAM Flex and my X1K and it honestly feels like one machine with two monitors!

MKShare also has the abilty to reconnect if the client of server is rebooted.

The comments are owned by the author. We aren't responsible for their content.

Author	Thread
Raziel	Published: 2016/12/3 16:13 Updated: 2016/12/3 16:14
Home away from home Joined: 11/26/2006 From: a dying planet Comments: 5455	Kudos Wow, that came as a surprise. Kudos to you! I don't have another Amiga system i could use this with, but i'd be sure to keep an eye on this one...maybe you want to enhance it to use foreign platforms aswell sometime in the future? All other solutions (synergy etc.) doesn't work for me

broadblues	Published: 2016/12/3 17:08 Updated: 2016/12/3 17:08
Home away from home Joined: 12/04/2006 From: Comments: 2370	Re: Kudos Thanks Raziel. If there is enough demand I might make linux client. I would need to learn abit about how linux events work first though in order to translate the amigalike rawmouse info in linux style events. It does work with WinUAE, so if you have a machine you use for emulating a 3.x 68k environment you can share the AmigaOS4 mouse keyboard and clipboard with it. You will need to adjust the windows firwall to give it access though.

tolkien	Published: 2016/12/3 21:35 Updated: 2016/12/3 21:35
Just popping in Joined: 06/11/2010 From: Comments: 20	MorphOS version It's great broadblues. Do you think It can works with a MorphOS machine in a future?

nubechecorre	Published: 2016/12/3 21:45 Updated: 2016/12/3 21:45
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/24/2006 From: Sanremo Comments: 1890	MKShare Wow! thanks!! i will buy it for sure in the next days! :)

broadblues	Published: 2016/12/3 22:07 Updated: 2016/12/3 22:07
Home away from home Joined: 12/04/2006 From: Comments: 2370	Re: MorphOS version @tolkien The 68k client might work for MorphOS maybe, untested though.

broadblues	Published: 2016/12/3 22:08 Updated: 2016/12/3 22:08
Home away from home Joined: 12/04/2006 From: Comments: 2370	Re: MKShare @numblechore Thanks in advance then

ChrisH	Published: 2016/12/4 11:40 Updated: 2016/12/4 11:41
Home away from home Joined: 05/19/2007 From: England Comments: 3582	Slightly confused terminology @broadblues Just a small constructive criticism: I find the terms "client of server" and "server of client" to be somewhat confusing as to whether you are talking about the client or the server. Please just use "client" or "server". Secondly, it's not made clear, but I am assuming that the "server" is your main Amiga that you use, and that "clients" are the Amigas you are remotely using?

broadblues	Published: 2016/12/4 17:21 Updated: 2016/12/4 17:23
Home away from home Joined: 12/04/2006 From: Comments: 2370	Re: Slightly confused terminology @ChrisH the term "server of client" is not a term at all but a typo "server OR client" was my intention. The server is the machine with the actual keyboard and mouse connected yes.