Author: Stan Arts
Date: 01:30:04 08/25/05
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On August 25, 2005 at 03:43:54, Marc Lacrosse wrote:
>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
Hi Marc,
If you just want to be able to play a regular chessgame, you could upload
Neurosis-3D to your memory-stick.
It does not require registration, and will run from any path, as long as the
few files that go along with it are kept in the same folder.
About one MB unzipped, including small openingbook and Winboard-version.
http://www.geocities.com/tasteofinsanity81/stanspage
Enjoy,
Stan
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