Windows Small games run-able from USB drive

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  1. Glider

    Glider /dev/null

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    Hi fellows,

    I'm having a vacation job over here at the local Metal plant, in the administration section... My job is to sit at a PC the whole day, and do administrative tasks...

    But that's the problem, there's little administrational work for me, because either the data is to sensitive or the else I don't have rights to make descisions... I will be moving to the archiving section in 1.5 weeks, but meanwhile I have to sit there... No patience on my workstation (not a single game) and no internet connection...

    So I asked my boss what I should do the 7h36 I have to sit at my desk, and he told me (litterally): "Bring a book, or play some on the pc..." Well, since I got permission from the boss... Bring on the small games that run from USB drives (I have a Seagate 5GB USB drive, so plenty of room). I sit at a typical office workstation, and have 0.0 rights on the harddrive, so no installing stuff... The PC also has the soundcard disable'd (DON'T ever do that... every sound that windows now makes is through the "beeper", lound and irritant beeps all the time when I press escape and stuff...) so no listening to MP3's either...

    I tried to amuse me today with poking the Proxyserver so I can get onto the internet, but when I guessed the root password (why would root be the company name... that was my 3rd guess, and all this over TELNET instead of SSH :s But it figures, they are running debian stable (=2years back) for a web-oriented server :sigh: ) and logged on I quickly got a phonecall from the systemadmin, asking what I was doing... :D So I guess no more network-screwing-around, because I'm being watched now...

    I'm basically looking for fun games, not difficult ones... The ones that get you through the day... Bring on the links ;) (no illegal stuff tough... ;))
     
    Glider, 5 Jul 2006
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  2. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Solitaire? Always a good standby for me. There aren't a whole lot of options that won't touch the hard drive AFAIK. I suppose if you wanted to break out some of the old classics, you could put dosbox on the portable drive and some of those old dos games ripped to folders as well.
     
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  3. Sp!

    Sp! Minimodder

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    there are loads of emulaters that run without being installed, grab on of them and some roms and relive the 80's all day at work.
     
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  4. simon w

    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    Do any programming/scripting? If so, you should be able to setup a wamp environment.
     
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  5. Kevo

    Kevo 426F6C6C6F636B7300

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  6. Glider

    Glider /dev/null

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    Thanks for al the suggestions... Today I put solitare and the other XP games on my USB drive. They got me through the day, but I prefer something beefier
     
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  7. Atomic

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  8. crazydeep74

    crazydeep74 What's a Dremel?

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  9. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Oh yeah, I totally forgot about those. Since I *ahem* owned every NES and SNES game ever, I happen to have totally legal roms for all of them. Any games that you own I can provide in rom form for you with complete legality under fair use rights. :) Hmm... about time to break out Link to the Past again, methinks. Once I finish my five millionth runthrough of FFVII.

    Actually, come to think of it, just grab one of those little 5" screens for a psone or ps2 off of eBay or whatever and just bring that in. Screw the computer. </blasphemy>
     
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  10. ozstrike

    ozstrike yip yip yip yip

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    Kkrieger? Takes up a tiny amount of space and is quite fun.
     
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