portable space empires???

wildcowboy · #1 October 4th, 2006, 09:06 PM

Just wondering if anyone has recommendations for a portable external hard drive. The ones Ive seen all operate at 5400rpm. Is this sufficient to run SE directly from it? Any opinions and personal exp. welcome.

Thanks,
CB

DarkHorse · #2 October 4th, 2006, 09:21 PM

Buy.com

I just bought this one; 7200rpm USB 2.0 etc, for a pretty reasonable price.

Suicide Junkie · #3 October 4th, 2006, 09:32 PM

Heck, you could use a USB key.

Even a 128meg key is enough if you trim down the data files...
Delete the 800x600 or 1024x768 system pictures, whichever you won't be using. And downgrade the ones you will be using to have fewer colours and save more space.

Fyron · #4 October 4th, 2006, 09:51 PM

External hdds are usually a rip-off. It is generally cheaper to buy a IDE drive (on sale all the time too) and an enclosure (pay more than $20 for a good aluminum one and you are getting ripped off).

$100 is sort of approaching what you could pay for a 250 gb IDE drive + enclosure though, and might be worth it for you.

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.

Another possibility is to mod the SystemTypes.txt file so that all systems use the same image. Won't help much with PBW, but fine for single player.

SE3, however, is fairly portable. It's install size is only a few MBs.

But you might need to activate the registration on every machine you run it on... Could probably export the registry keys for that to make it faster though.

wildcowboy · #5 October 4th, 2006, 10:21 PM

Im looking at a 100GB simpletech that is up for $100. Dark Horse, Ive seen nothing but good things about the MyBook but its much larger dimensions than what Im searching for. Im looking for something truly pocket size. I thought of the 1GB jump drive but I need something that I can store several GB's of other data on for work and such. I guess what it comes down to is whether 5400 rpm is enought o run the game directly from the drive. As for the file size on my PC for the game Im sitting at 669MB for the whole deal with AT's Star Trek mod. Thanks for the opinions guys and tell me what you think. I forgot why I liked this site so much when I lurked around several years ago.

CB

bearclaw · #6 October 4th, 2006, 10:35 PM

Later this month I'm due to buy a replacement for my aging Palm m500. I'll be buying a Palm LiveDrive. It has 4 Gb onboard memory and I'll be purchasing a 2 Gb SD card with it. LiveDrives can also function as a USB drive so my intention is to have SEIV installed on that and run games off it.

When I get it all together, I'll try to remember to post it's performance.

Timstone · #7 October 15th, 2006, 10:25 AM

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bearclaw said:
Later this month I'm due to buy a replacement for my aging Palm m500. I'll be buying a Palm LiveDrive. It has 4 Gb onboard memory and I'll be purchasing a 2 Gb SD card with it. LiveDrives can also function as a USB drive so my intention is to have SEIV installed on that and run games off it.

When I get it all together, I'll try to remember to post it's performance.

Bearclaw:
You installed SE IV on your palm? Wow! Did it work. Does that mean I can install SE IV on my HP HX4700 too?

Timstone · #8 October 16th, 2006, 12:22 PM

Anyone, perhaps...?

bearclaw · #9 January 16th, 2008, 05:03 PM

I'm glad you did resurrect this topic because I forgot all about installing SEIV on my LifeDrive to see if the DriveMode would work...

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Timstone said:
Bearclaw:
You installed SE IV on your palm? Wow! Did it work. Does that mean I can install SE IV on my HP HX4700 too?

No, I haven't but only because I forgot about it. Now I'm going to though and I'll let you know how it works.

Fyron · #10 October 4th, 2006, 10:42 PM

100 GB for $100? Yikes! Don't throw money away like that. Watch the deal sites til the next time a 160 GB is up for ~$40, and an enclosure is under 20. Lots of companies make good enclosures that are not much larger than the hdd itself.

Of course, if you want truly pocket sized, you want a notebook ide drive and a 2.5 inch enclosure.