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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Good idea to back up your thumbdrive to PC *and* CD/DVD

Submitted by stacoma on April 11, 2006 - 7:03am

Just a suggestion Smile

When you hit that plateau of having set up your thumbdrive with most of the apps you want/need, plus other documents, etc. you want to save, copying that to a directory on a hard drive is a good idea.

But, also burning it to a CD (or DVD) is a good idea, especially if you are away from home on travel. If you have that CD (or DVD) with you in a backpack or baggage and your thumbdrive goes bad (or is stolen...in which case your sensitive files are ideally encrypted), you can buy another and then have a way of getting the new thumbdrive up and running quickly. This happened to a friend of mine who was traveling in Europe and since he had a duplicate on a CD with him, he scrounged his Euros together and bought a replacement drive and was back in business quickly.

Working portable games (not crappy solitaire type ones)

Submitted by dyce on April 10, 2006 - 11:38pm

Doom! 1 and 2
you need the WADS though, and i use jDoom cuz its shiney. I also downloaded the old model pack (10mb)
the program does a autoscan for the wads
u might want to search google for zdoom, because jdoom probably needs a high end comp (3d!)
http://doomsdayhq.com

Truck Dismount
RAGDOLL PHYSICS!!!!!
the dummy is in the truck and you can set up obstacles for him, like put jumps on, and make the truck go fast. get the highest score by hurting the guy a lot. they also have stair dismount where u push him down some stairs. its in 3d too, and it probably works on all systems since it worked on my laptop which had a 64mb of ram, some crap 4mb sis gfx card, and 500 mhz amd k6.

Nice site!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 10, 2006 - 1:26pm

You guys have a great site going here...I will be sure to tell all my friends about it! Biggrin

Aren't there a lot of games that are already portable?

Submitted by Ayavaron on April 9, 2006 - 6:01pm

I know of many games that are already self-contained and portable, so is there any reason why they aren't on the site?

ZSNES is a portable SNES emulater.

Nexuiz is totally portable and its a great game. Open Arena is also portable. There are really a lot of available games that are portable. So, basically, I ask why they aren't on the site.

Milkytracker: Portable music creation app

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 9, 2006 - 2:16pm

hi Wink

I want to recommend this music creation tool.

MILKYTRACKER

www.milkytracker.net

Info:
Fasttracker2 clone. Tracker style program for create music. Built-in sampleeditor.
Sopports following module music formats:669, AMS, AMF, CBA, DIGI, DSM, FAR, GDM, IMF, MOD, MDL, MTM, MXM, OKT, PLM, PSM, PTM, S3M, STM, ULT, UNI and XM
Export to: XM, MOD and WAV formats

Posting code with: code and pre

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 6, 2006 - 10:20am

As Thox helpfully pointed out, it appears I originally had the code html tag set to display block and I had disabled pre (which should be used for long blocks of code). I've corrected the issue in the CSS and a couple posts. But if you have a post that you used code to display a block of code, you'll need to update it to pre. If there are other posts that need updating, post a link here and I'll fix em.

As an example... here's some code inline using the code tag so it sits mid-sentence. And here's a:

pre example
with different stuff on each line
20 goto 10

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Opera works where Firefox and Gaim can`t... ???

Submitted by TrickyTrix on April 6, 2006 - 9:18am

In my faculty all computers are set as guests and have very little privilegies. Installation of programs is forbiden by administrator so portable applications come to the rescue. But Portable Firefox and Portable Gaim can`t access the internet (we have DSL)! Portable Opera works just fine but Firefox and Gaim can`t access to the internet. What can be the problem??? If Opera works why Firefox and Gaim can`t break through?

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