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I got an idea.

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Submitted by Espreon on March 10, 2007 - 5:59pm

This may sound stupid but, why don't we make a list of devices that work best with portable apps. Devices listed would be benchmarked on different systems (ones with different USB versions, tested on both Windows and Linux (or other Unix-based OSes) with Wine or other Wine-based thing (like CrossOver Linux) and Mac OSX with CrossOver Mac (CrossOver Mac is a version of Wine for Macs) and so on) and then the apps will be used on the devices on the variety of different systems.

Any clue as to Why my U3 drive is faster?

Submitted by chas0039 on March 9, 2007 - 6:24pm

When I shut down my U3 drive, the USB drive is ready to remove in a very short time, just a few seconds. When I use the same drive with Portable Apps, the drive will often read/write for up to a minute and a half before it is ready to remove. The difference seems to be Firefox as the U3 uses 1.5 and Portable Apps uses 2.0.

Is there something else I should be doing? The drive seems to be deleting cache files, while for some reason, the U3 version does not seem to do this.

Much thanks.

SOOOO frustrated! help needed please.

Submitted by jezp1000 on March 9, 2007 - 10:47am

Hi all.
I'm sure there must be someone out there that can help me out....!!

1. Using my laptop, I installed PortableApps suite to mu USB. Worked like a charm - except there are no icons visible for ANY programs I install, or any that are pre-installed (the files all load OK, though). Also, the links to documents, music, etc on the right hand side do not work - nothing opens when I click on them.
I have tried this with the full, lite and base installations but it's the same for all of them.

Maybe Portable Old Games?

Submitted by TKT97054 on March 8, 2007 - 12:19pm

There is a brilliant site called Abandonia. This site contains famous and classic games that were made ages ago (back in my time ^_^) and are absolutely free.

Some are not, but you will know about them when you find no link to that game to download.

Anyway... most of these games require DosBOX to play them, but a couple of them are compatible to play on XP. Some games like MDK and Turok are available to play.

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