Mobile Thudboard

easy. thudboard is a pretty simple application that doesn't put stuff in 10 different places on your pc. all you have to do is grab the folder, copy it to your stick and you've got it working on there. you can, of course, also install it to the stick, but if you've got thudboard installed already, copying it is so much easier

Cool, I need to do that right away (just need a decent stick for that...)

just checked, thudboard is almost 11mb big, so any stick would do. if you've got a digital camera and a card reader even that would work.

hmm, wouldn't it be fun to even play Thud on your camera...

Ratty succeeds in making me feel old again my first memory stick was only 8mb tho happily my last was a 4GB corsair GT and as a heads up not all memory sticks can be booted from apparently even if the pc /laptop BIOS is capable of booting from USB flash. I think most of the Corsairs are bootable but not sure about which other brands are a friend told me the other night that a cheap 8GB he just bought was not bootable. On another front if you want a system than can play online thud if your primary harddisk crashes get a copy of knoppix i have played the online game using one of the browsers that comes on the bootable CD/DVD and if you have a router/hub that does DHCP it will quite often setup your internet connection automatically. I have been looking at the idea of using SLAX to make a bootable USB virtual computer that has the thudboard app on it as well as a secured Firefox, openoffice, gimp, mp3/video player, etc but its still in my in tray wherever that is but if i do get around to it i will FTP an image upto the net somewhere and post a link here.

I've been a' thinkin...

If a group of us gt together and made "applications" to be used on bebo and facebook, or "widgets" that work in a lot of places, we could spread the thud!!!
Or even an online/not online java thud client (just type in the moves and play thud with a mate on the same mobile!!!).
I would be willing to help here, though a mobile client would involve serious copyright.

HEX

it definitely would!

@alex: 8mb? i doubt you'd still get that today. luckily we weren't talking about booting from the stick and every computer (except for my laptop (due to lack of usb)) should manage to open the files on a stick.

When I started playing, and before I found the ThudBoard app, I made a spreadsheet for keeping track of forum games. Fits on any stick, even multiple games.
Your post reminded me, and I had a look for old times sake. Hey, I was good back then! No seriously, it even keeps track of pieces left. With a bit of tweaking I could put in a score as well, I think.
If anyone is interested I might translate it (the bits of text are in dutch) and put it on my site in Open Document format. That's the generally accepted OS independent standard that MS doesn't support.

Happy Thudding!