Author: Marc Lacrosse
Date: 00:43:54 08/25/05
Hello all,
As there are now 512 MB or even 1 GB USB memory sticks at very affordable price,
I wondered which tools I could put on it for having my favorite chess tools
everywhere ready to plug and play on any Win PC.
Requirements are :
- programs with no installation procedure, no registry storage, only local
saving of any parameters in .ini or analogous config files
- programs which accept relative path addressing for taking into account the
fact that the letter assigned to the drive can vary from PC to PC
I presently use :
- winboard + polyglot
- CDB database
- chesscat PGN reader and diagram maker
- jin FICS and ICC client (requires java installed)
- a lot of command line utilities
I have seen somewhere that Bookup DB meets the requirements but I did not try
If I remember well there was recently a post saying that shredder classic GUI
should work with a little manual config files editing. I could not get it
working with sherdderclassic 6 (which came on CD with shredder 7). I always get
a CDcheck message box and then an error message ("impossible to write XXX file"
or something like this).
Tom's winboard engines manager does not seem to accept relative paths
addressing.
I did not try any tournaments managers in this setting (i do it all by hand
through batch files but it's a little boring)
I suppose that other majors GUI won't accept the "portable" reqirements. Any
good surprise on this ?
Should be nice to have all informations of this kind collected in the thread
then maybe on a webpage.
Any information ?
Marc
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