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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => Topic started by: Darl181 on February 18, 2011, 01:25:30 am
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I was wondering if it's possible to run TiLP, or a modified version of it, off of a flash drive.
Pretty much everything I do related to computers is on my flash drive.
For me, it's an accomplishment to use the same computer more than three times, and it gets kind of tiring installing TiLP whenever I happen to need it, like 2 or 3 times a week.
So, is it possible, or is there a way to make it possible?
Thanks in advance ;D
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It would be nice indeed if it's not done already, since a lot of people can't install things at home or at school.
(On a side note if TiLP portable was under 16 MB large it could probably be ran off a Casio Prizm too, although I doubt many people bring two calcs at school. :P)
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Bump.
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It can't, and unless you have a driver on calc, it wont ever, since you need to install the whole "libticables" bit for transfers. If you made a driver for each calc that made it easier, though, it's possible. Might as well make a MSD app though :P
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Yeah, can't install anything on school computers. It's just occured to me there's a ton of things packaged as portable apps (GIMP, Firefox, Blender, FDM, etc.) so I thought it might be possible to do the same thing with TiLP. :/
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There is the libusb-win32 filter wizard and zadig for installing the driver on the go, but you would still need administrator privileges to install the driver. The rest of it could be made portable assuming the directory structure is correct and you include the needed gtk+ stuff.
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I still think writing a driver for the calc to act as a flash drive would be the way to go, because pretty much any way of doing otherwise requires admin priveleges. I wish it were otherwise, but it's not! :(
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BrandonW had a start of one, but pretending to be a MSD device is a lot harder than it sounds, especially with read and write caching.
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I'm trying to work on making the calc become a flash drive for KOS, and I can attest to the fact that it is by no means easy.
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Does TILP not use user-mode drivers? Those don't need administrative rights to be used.
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XP doesn't have them. Only Vista and 7
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DrDnar, you still need Admin to install the drivers which is the issue. Both winusb(which we may support in the future) and libusb0.sys can be accessed from usermode programs. Its just that you can't install either of those drivers as a regular user.
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BrandonW had a start of one, but pretending to be a MSD device is a lot harder than it sounds, especially with read and write caching.
/me pokes BrandonW to finish the Periph8x, which as of July 2008 was "close";)
I'm trying to work on making the calc become a flash drive for KOS, and I can attest to the fact that it is by no means easy.
But we can't all exactly use KOS, not in this state at least :P