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making SA-MP client into a portable app - wolfy - 24.04.2009

hey

this has been on my mind for a very long time now. i just never seemed to get a chance to post it.

what i am wondering, is how hard (or easy?) it would be to portablize the SA-MP client? i would like to take my game with me and play it on a few workstations at school when i often get stuck doing nothing for an hour.

this much i do know: San Andreas will run from any folder on any drive letter. It makes a GTA User Files in the machine's My Docs folder if one does not exist. No problem, as the target machine has My Docs mapped out to a Novell server. it starts up no problem on said workstation (it is deep frozen but otherwise not locked down in any way) and plays very well via a USB hard drive.

i tried placing SA-MP into my portable copy of SA, but it does not work. throws me an error message (i cannot remember what it is atm). if i install it to the computer, pointing it to my portable SA, it installs and runs just fine. until i come back tomorrow (or restart the machine).

i am guessing there are some registry keys associated with the browser that keep it from working like this? if so i would like some information on this, because i think i could just write a batch script that would add the keys, find and launch SA-MP, and auto join the server i play. since the only computers i will be running such a script on are always in a frozen state, there would be no trace

well shit this is a long post, i appologise if this puts anyone asleep

thanks

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Re: making SA-MP client into a portable app - [mad]MLK - 24.04.2009

i tryed this on my school machine once wolf, it blockes the outgoing connection for the samp client on the network i just got retriveing info for everything

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Re: making SA-MP client into a portable app - wolfy - 24.04.2009

my school uses an 8E6 R3000 filtering unit

in my case, yes, the browser list will not load but the actual connection to the server will work (try adding <no ads> to your fav list ) well at least in my case

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Re: making SA-MP client into a portable app - MachineHead - 24.04.2009

Well, if you install San Andreas and then install SAMP into that dir, then copy that dir to a pendrive or external HDD etc, that should work. The regisrty key only stores basic things such as player name and path to the gta_sa.exe executable. (The registry key can be found under HKEY_CURRENT_USER - Software - SAMP)

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Re: making SA-MP client into a portable app - hoodline - 27.04.2009

just copy samp files you have installed on your pc and put it on a other pc with gta installed and try it

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Re: making SA-MP client into a portable app - wolfy - 27.04.2009

i am going to try the registry hack tomorrow - thanks for the info

already tried, requires you to install samp to the current windows install

adding back the two registry keys should fix that in an easy scripted solution

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Re: making SA-MP client into a portable app - hoodline - 27.04.2009

why not just install samp and uninstall it when your finished?

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Re: making SA-MP client into a portable app - Gamer_Z - 04.09.2009

use VMWARE thinapp.. it will make 2 executables .. the samp on.. and the GTA one ...(which will have about 4GB LOL).. dunno if that will work..

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