portable space empires??? - Page 2

geoschmo · #1 October 4th, 2006, 11:00 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
SJ:
I dunno if you could fit it on 128 MB. Dogscoff had a hell of a time getting it to fit on just a 700 MB CD.

128 would be a tight squeze, but you might be able to do it. A clean install should be fairly easy to fit it on a 256MB flash drive. IIRC Dogscoff was trying to load it with lots of extra shipsets and his favorite mods.

Suicide Junkie · #2 October 5th, 2006, 06:35 AM

Oh it was, but 128 was all that was available way back when.

Nowadays, you could grab a 1gig stick for a couple bucks and pile the imagepacks and a couple of mods onto it.

Oooh, what about a bootable linux with wine on it?
Insert Disk, Power On, Play SE4. Power Off, Poof.
Good on CDRW too.

Fyron · #3 October 5th, 2006, 06:48 AM

Of course, it's probably not a good idea to run SE4 off of a USB flash drive anyways; all those temp file writes are sure to kill it.

With flash getting cheap these days, it might be worth it though. Just make sure to back up your savegames from time to time.

dogscoff · #4 October 5th, 2006, 08:13 AM

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I dunno if you could fit it on 128 MB. Dogscoff had a hell of a time getting it to fit on just a 700 MB CD.

Yeah, but that was including a whole heap of mods and shipsets. Remove those (or scale down the BMPs, something I was unwilling to do) and you could squeeze se4 onto a USB key no probs.

I wish se4 could have supported zip files for mod and shipset folders , I'd have a gig more space on my HD than there is now.

geoschmo · #5 October 5th, 2006, 08:33 AM

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dogscoff said:
I wish se4 could have supported zip files for mod and shipset folders , I'd have a gig more space on my HD than there is now.

You know, I'll bet someone could make a "Mod picker" style utility that would store the mods as zip files and only unzip the one you are currently playing.

scJazz · #6 October 5th, 2006, 09:35 AM

The only saving grace for purchasing a boxed external hard drive is the backup/recovery software you usually get.

Approach 1) Save money, use time, no software = buy the drive and enclosure and put them together

Approach 2) Waste money, save time, get backup/recover software = buy a boxed LaCie or Maxtor hard drive.

Personally I like the Maxtor One-Touch for its' utterly painless backup system (push the button stupid!). This is what I use on the majority of my client installations.

Azselendor · #7 October 5th, 2006, 01:05 PM

I operate a lot of my work now from a portable hard drive, as a gift a few months ago, it was a 100gb Seagate Portable Hard Drive and it was all enclosed and that good stuff. Works great too. I accidently found the receipt for it at my parent's home and it cost them about 90 bucks after shipping and freight insurance.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...|c:136|&Sort=4

That is where they bought it from and this is it, looks like the price went up or it was on sale.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...827193&CatId=0

Urendi Maleldil · #8 October 5th, 2006, 02:07 PM

Woah. Hadrian is back. Welcome back, amigo.

Ed Kolis · #9 October 5th, 2006, 02:50 PM

Oh wow, I didn't even recognize you! Hadrian as in SpaceEmpires.org? Or are you going to kill me because I remembered that?

Fyron · #10 October 9th, 2006, 02:38 PM

I dunno if you already bought your hdd, but Dell has a 160 GB external drive for $79 with no shipping. Still a little pricier than a good deal on a IDE + enclosure, but it beats the other prices posted earlier.

http://bensbargains.net/deal/7611/