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Creating a disc for portable game creation...

by EGUY · in Artist Corner · 03/01/2005 (1:22 pm) · 5 replies

I have assembled a group of freeware programs (Audacity for sound, jEdit with TIDE for programming, QuArK for level making). If I put these all on one CD, will I be able to run these programs off a CD? I installed them all to a folder that I will burn to a CD so it saves space. All these programs add up to 150 mb, my disc will fit 700 mb. I hope to be able to run the programs off the disc without having to install them when I want to use them on the go.
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Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#1
03/01/2005 (1:24 pm)
Any program that needs to write files (and hasn't been configured to write them outside of the execution directory) will have problems.

Torque 3D Owner Pat Wilson
#2
03/01/2005 (2:03 pm)
I'd actually say to use a USB drive, that would be faster, more portable (smaller), more reliable, and be useful for other things.

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#3
03/01/2005 (2:48 pm)
I'd second that. I use my pen drive like crazy here at work.

EGUY
#4
03/01/2005 (4:36 pm)
I checked the programs and they seem to work fine. Audacity won't play any sound though, I tried both the copied one and original. I think it has to do with that message about not having enough space on this volume(?).

Is it possible to make it so I can change my CD's contents without a CD burner? It's a CD-R and I tried changing it to read-only but couldn't copy stuff onto it like I can with normal folders on the hard-drive.

Farukh Bashir
#5
03/11/2005 (5:10 am)
Without the cd burner its not possible to change your content.i would suggest getting a CDRW and copying stuff on it, and you can also use it as a large floppy ;).