Tutorial: Share clipboard between OS4.1 and Windows

[MickJT]

Apologies if this has been documented elsewhere. These instructions are tailored for OS4.1 Final Edition, but should work on any edition of OS4.x.

0. First, configure your PC to have a static IP address. For example: 192.168.1.100

1. Have the A2065 ethernet device configured and working within OS4.

2. Make sure WinUAE is configured for "SLIRP + Open ports (21-23,80)"

3. Download clipo from http://os4depot.net/index.php?functi...misc/clipo.lha

4. Extract the archive within OS4 and copy "clipo" from aos4.x, to C:

5. Open S:Network-Startup in a text editor, and add the following line at the end:

Run <>NIL: clipo --clip_loop 10.0.2.15 22 192.168.1.100 23

6. Extract the clipo.lha archive within Windows and edit win32/clipo.ini like so:

local_ip = 192.168.1.100
local_port = 23
remote_ip = 192.168.1.100
remote_port = 22

(The local and remote IP addresses are the same because of the way SLIRP works)

7. Reboot OS4 (or run clipo manually).

8. Run clipo.exe in Windows.

Use alt+s to send clipboard information from either OS to the other. For example, on Windows, first use ctrl+c and then alt+s. On OS4, use ramiga+c then alt+s.

This isn't really *sharing* the clipboard like it is when using OS3, but it saves a lot of time!

[thomas]

Wouldn't it be better/easier to use 127.0.0.1 for clipo.ini?

[MickJT]

Sure, but you have to set a static IP (or reserved IP for DHCP) anyway unless you want to change the line in Network-Setup any time you turn your devices on in a different order. I suppose you could use the hostname of the PC, normally USERNAME-PC. I'll try that. Edit: Didn't work here.