BlitzMax on USB Memory Stick

Hi Everyone,
I have seen mention of people installing BlitzMax on a memory stick.
Is it as simple as installing 1.18 on the stick, then sync for the latest version?
Is there anything tricky i should know about?

Regards
glenn

No. A USB is just a slow HD

I thought i had heard of people installing BMax on the stick and then being able to go to other computers and continue doing programming. Is this not correct?

No you are correct, I ment No its not tricky. I have Bmax on my PSP

You have to worry about the backup for the update, cos that can get big, but apart from that no problem

Backups shouldn't be a problem. I have a 4gig memory stick.
Cool. I will give it a go once i get back from movies and dinner.

Thanks for your help.
Glenn

I usually toss things like this on my iPod Mini. I'll usually toss a version of
each for Windows, Linux and OS X, so it doesn't matter what computer I
end up using, I've pretty much got everything I need.

Running from an iPod or iPod Mini is pretty good since it's running off of a
little mini hd. USB sticks have always been slow and probably will be for
a few years until the technology for it grows more.

If anyone wants to use their iPod or iPod Mini in this kind of situation, you need
format your iPod from a Windows machine, and use FAT16. Almost all Linux
boxes and all OS X machines can read FAT16. If you use Journaled or Ext2,
then Windows machines will not be able to read it at all.

-Garrett

Just thought I'd mention that while Windows can't access Ext2 volumes on its own, it's possible to read/write Ext2 (and Ext3/journaled) volumes in Windows NT/2000/XP with the free Ext2 IFS. I use it to let XP see my Ubuntu partition (Ubuntu can see XP's NTFS one on its own). Makes transferring files easy in a multi-boot situation.

My USB mem stick for transferring XP or Ubuntu to/from OS X (when I'm too lazy to rig my Ethernet cable) happens to use FAT32. Having a variety of file system choices to choose from is good! :)

sweet, i am going to put this on a zip drive ASAP

can i get rid of the backup for the updates?

Yes, you can delete the backupdir after upgrading to 1.22.

I guess the only problem I could forsee is, "What if something happens to the memory stick?" A lot of times, I end up forgetting mine in the back of one of my computers. I use iDisk for my Mac. I wish there was something like that for the PC.