Network PC

Having just bought Network PC for the ridiculously low price of £3 from First Computer Centre, I began to wonder, on the long journey home, what it would be like. I thought it'd be really slow and I thought maybe it wouldn't work at all!

But I was proven wrong on both counts! Network PC, for those who have never heard of it, it a piece of software which allows you, through the use of a supplied Parallel cable, to connect your Amiga and PC together and share your PC's drives.

You can share it's floppy drive, it's CD ROM, and removable drives and any other possible storage devices you can think of! Network PC has managed to work out a way to get PC drives treated like any other drives and directories on your Amiga!

Just install the PC software on the PC and the Amiga software on the Amiga, set both of them up, run the PC-side server, Mount 'PC:' on your Amiga and you're ready to go!

A disk icon labelled 'PCDISK' will appear on your Workbench screen which contains directories which correspond to all the PC drives, and all you have to do is open the directories and you can begin working on them as if they were in your Amiga!

It's even pretty quick!! 25 k/sec Amiga->PC and 14 k/sec the other way isn't bad. Now you can download those huge files on your PC that you have to use for Net access, and be able to transfer them to your Amiga without the aid of Floppy Disks.

You can even Decompress any downloaded LhAs across the parallel cable. For instance, run LhA to uncompress a file on the PC's hard disk to another place on the PC's hard disk, and you can even run programs across it!!!!

If you have an Amiga and PC, this is VERY worthy of the money you will spend on it. Buy it... NOW!!! :)


Supplier/Distributor: Weird Science
Verdict: EXCELLENT!!!
Score: 96%
Neil Bullock