Short: Display on Amiga images hosted on a Windows PC via RS-232

Type: Utility

Version: 1.0

Description: Falco is a tool to view, on an Amiga computer, images stored in a Windows host by using a client-server architecture. It is intended for use in situations where the images are stored on the server and the client cannot view them directly, or cannot do it in a satisfactory manner, for one or more of the following reasons:

- Insufficient RAM
- Resolution too high, allowing only a very small portion of the image to be displayed
- CPU too slow to decode the format in a reasonable time
- No datatype available for the picture's graphic format
- Files cannot be given to the Amiga system (images too big for floppy disks, not enough space on HDD, or no LAN connection available)

This program has been written to solve these problems. It consists of two parts:

- A server program, to be launched on a Windows system
- A client program, to be launched on an Amiga OS3 system

The two systems are connected through a null-modem serial cable, and through this connection the client requests to the server the images to be displayed. When the server receives a request, it loads the image and scales it down to a smallest size, then transmits it to the client, who display it.

Requirements: RapaGUI plugin

Released as: Freeware for every non-commercial distribution.