BlitzMax on USB Memory Stick
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| Hi Everyone, I have seen mention of people installing BlitzMax on a memory stick. Is it as simple as installing 1.18 on the stick, then sync for the latest version? Is there anything tricky i should know about? Regards glenn |
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| Is there anything tricky i should know about? No. A USB is just a slow HD |
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| I thought i had heard of people installing BMax on the stick and then being able to go to other computers and continue doing programming. Is this not correct? |
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| No you are correct, I ment No its not tricky. I have Bmax on my PSP You have to worry about the backup for the update, cos that can get big, but apart from that no problem |
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| Backups shouldn't be a problem. I have a 4gig memory stick. Cool. I will give it a go once i get back from movies and dinner. Thanks for your help. Glenn |
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| I usually toss things like this on my iPod Mini. I'll usually toss a version of each for Windows, Linux and OS X, so it doesn't matter what computer I end up using, I've pretty much got everything I need. Running from an iPod or iPod Mini is pretty good since it's running off of a little mini hd. USB sticks have always been slow and probably will be for a few years until the technology for it grows more. If anyone wants to use their iPod or iPod Mini in this kind of situation, you need format your iPod from a Windows machine, and use FAT16. Almost all Linux boxes and all OS X machines can read FAT16. If you use Journaled or Ext2, then Windows machines will not be able to read it at all. -Garrett |
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| Just thought I'd mention that while Windows can't access Ext2 volumes on its own, it's possible to read/write Ext2 (and Ext3/journaled) volumes in Windows NT/2000/XP with the free Ext2 IFS. I use it to let XP see my Ubuntu partition (Ubuntu can see XP's NTFS one on its own). Makes transferring files easy in a multi-boot situation. My USB mem stick for transferring XP or Ubuntu to/from OS X (when I'm too lazy to rig my Ethernet cable) happens to use FAT32. Having a variety of file system choices to choose from is good! :) |
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| sweet, i am going to put this on a zip drive ASAP can i get rid of the backup for the updates? |
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| Yes, you can delete the backupdir after upgrading to 1.22. |
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| I guess the only problem I could forsee is, "What if something happens to the memory stick?" A lot of times, I end up forgetting mine in the back of one of my computers. I use iDisk for my Mac. I wish there was something like that for the PC. |
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