Freeware no-install games?

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I got this idea this morning, prompted by responding to the autorun
thread. I've been racking my brain for Xmas gift ideas and thought
that an autorun featuring a bunch of no-install games would be a great
idea. No-install so that they're "launchable" right on the CD without
installing to hdd.

I've been doing some searching and thought I'd found quite a few but
it turns out only 1 out of all of them are no install and free.

3DMaze at Son of Spy's site:
http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/Games.html

Here's hoping anyone here knows more. As I find some, will post.
Perhaps someone else feels this will make a nice gift, too, for
someone they know.
 
fitwell wrote:
|
|I got this idea this morning, prompted by responding to the autorun
|thread. I've been racking my brain for Xmas gift ideas and thought
|that an autorun featuring a bunch of no-install games would be a great
|idea. No-install so that they're "launchable" right on the CD without
|installing to hdd.
|
|I've been doing some searching and thought I'd found quite a few but
|it turns out only 1 out of all of them are no install and free.
|
|3DMaze at Son of Spy's site:
|http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/Games.html
|
|Here's hoping anyone here knows more. As I find some, will post.
|Perhaps someone else feels this will make a nice gift, too, for
|someone they know.

You might want to look at flash games. If you do them as .swf file
you can embed them into html pages. You can also add discriptions if
you like of the games. You can also run them right from a CD if they
are .exe files.

http://www.flasharcade.com
http://www.t45ol.com/index_us.php
http://www.newgrounds.com
http://www.miniclip.com/Homepage_prompt.htm
http://www.sess.net

-=-
 
Anonymous said:
fitwell wrote:
|
|I got this idea this morning, prompted by responding to the autorun
|thread. I've been racking my brain for Xmas gift ideas and thought
|that an autorun featuring a bunch of no-install games would be a great
|idea. No-install so that they're "launchable" right on the CD without
|installing to hdd.
|
|I've been doing some searching and thought I'd found quite a few but
|it turns out only 1 out of all of them are no install and free.
|
|3DMaze at Son of Spy's site:
|http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/Games.html
|
|Here's hoping anyone here knows more. As I find some, will post.
|Perhaps someone else feels this will make a nice gift, too, for someone
|they know.

You might want to look at flash games. If you do them as .swf file
you can embed them into html pages. You can also add discriptions if
you like of the games. You can also run them right from a CD if they
are .exe files.

http://www.flasharcade.com
http://www.t45ol.com/index_us.php
http://www.newgrounds.com
http://www.miniclip.com/Homepage_prompt.htm
http://www.sess.net
Click to expand...

You can play stand-alone swf files with the free Swiff player.

http://www.globfx.com/products/swfplayer/
 
I got this idea this morning, prompted by responding to the autorun
thread. I've been racking my brain for Xmas gift ideas and thought
that an autorun featuring a bunch of no-install games would be a great
idea. No-install so that they're "launchable" right on the CD without
installing to hdd.

I've been doing some searching and thought I'd found quite a few but
it turns out only 1 out of all of them are no install and free.

3DMaze at Son of Spy's site:
http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/Games.html

Here's hoping anyone here knows more. As I find some, will post.
Perhaps someone else feels this will make a nice gift, too, for
someone they know.
Click to expand...

The backgammon game from Alan's site above is also no install. I
didn't realize I'd gotten it from him. That's my favourite game!
 
fitwell wrote:
|
|I got this idea this morning, prompted by responding to the autorun
|thread. I've been racking my brain for Xmas gift ideas and thought
|that an autorun featuring a bunch of no-install games would be a great
|idea. No-install so that they're "launchable" right on the CD without
|installing to hdd.
|
|I've been doing some searching and thought I'd found quite a few but
|it turns out only 1 out of all of them are no install and free.
|
|3DMaze at Son of Spy's site:
|http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/Games.html
|
|Here's hoping anyone here knows more. As I find some, will post.
|Perhaps someone else feels this will make a nice gift, too, for
|someone they know.

You might want to look at flash games. If you do them as .swf file
you can embed them into html pages. You can also add discriptions if
you like of the games. You can also run them right from a CD if they
are .exe files.

http://www.flasharcade.com
http://www.t45ol.com/index_us.php
http://www.newgrounds.com
http://www.miniclip.com/Homepage_prompt.htm
http://www.sess.net
Click to expand...

What a fantastic idea! I hadn't considered doing that. I found code
just last week to embed swf into html so that's a timely find.

Thanks!
 
fitwell wrote:
|
|I got this idea this morning, prompted by responding to the autorun
|thread. I've been racking my brain for Xmas gift ideas and thought
|that an autorun featuring a bunch of no-install games would be a great
|idea. No-install so that they're "launchable" right on the CD without
|installing to hdd.
|
|I've been doing some searching and thought I'd found quite a few but
|it turns out only 1 out of all of them are no install and free.
|
|3DMaze at Son of Spy's site:
|http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/Games.html
|
|Here's hoping anyone here knows more. As I find some, will post.
|Perhaps someone else feels this will make a nice gift, too, for
|someone they know.

You might want to look at flash games. If you do them as .swf file
you can embed them into html pages. You can also add discriptions if
you like of the games. You can also run them right from a CD if they
are .exe files.

http://www.flasharcade.com
http://www.t45ol.com/index_us.php
http://www.newgrounds.com
http://www.miniclip.com/Homepage_prompt.htm
http://www.sess.net

-=-
 
fitwell said:
The backgammon game from Alan's site above is also no install. I
didn't realize I'd gotten it from him. That's my favourite game!
Click to expand...


Quick Backgammon works pretty good in linux in Wine also ....
 
fitwell said:
I got this idea this morning, prompted by responding to the autorun
thread. I've been racking my brain for Xmas gift ideas and thought
that an autorun featuring a bunch of no-install games would be a great
idea. No-install so that they're "launchable" right on the CD without
installing to hdd.

I've been doing some searching and thought I'd found quite a few but
it turns out only 1 out of all of them are no install and free.

3DMaze at Son of Spy's site:
http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/Games.html

Here's hoping anyone here knows more. As I find some, will post.
Perhaps someone else feels this will make a nice gift, too, for
someone they know.
Click to expand...

That 3DMaze is a nice one.

Here are several other noinstall games you might consider:
------------------
Train Dispatcher v2.0 [1.8M] W9x/NT/2k FREE
http://www.signalcc.com/train2/td2free.exe
http://www.signalcc.com/train2/td2freeware.html
This game lets you become a train dispatcher. That's the person who
makes sure all the trains stay on the right track. Ability to handle
multiple territories. Five territories are included with the program.
There is also a companion program to Train Dispatcher 2.0 called Track
Builder. With Track Builder, users can design their own territories.
-----------------
Traffic Computer
v1.2
October 1999
Robert Buckley
W 3.1, 800x600 in 16bit colour minimum, VBRUN300.DLL
(e-mail address removed)
www.fairgame.org/buckley/
Arcade Simulation. The Kirkwall city traffic computer has blown a fuse.
It can be fixed, but this will take time... meanwhile the traffic is in
chaos. It is up to YOU, with your helicopter, to control the traffic
lights by remote control. The game lasts two minutes, during this time
you control the traffic lights using the mouse to press the buttons
marked "1" to "4". Score: Your score is based on the total number of
seconds waited by the cars. It is your aim to achieve a LOW score.
--------------------
PUZZZ
VERSION 1.0 460 kb executable
Prime Software Projects
www.primesoft.force9.co.uk
(e-mail address removed)9.co.uk
Installation: Put the 'Digital2' Truetype font into your windows Fonts
directory. (not needed), delete all sound wav files.
The object is to reassemble the jumbled number tiles into increasing
numerical order. You need to rearrange the numbers into the order and
positions you see when you first start Puzzz. To play the game click the
Play button, this will jumble the numbers and then you must rearrange
them. Click on a tile to move it into the vacant space; Only tiles
adjacent to the empty space are able to move into it. If you can solve
this puzzle in under two minutes, you're doing pretty well.
--------------
Linkz
1.21 861 kb folder, executable
9/22/01
(e-mail address removed).
http://www.v-d-l.com/games_linkz.html
Linkz is a small Windows game based on KPlumber. It is a puzzle game in
which you must connect pieces of pipe, road, cubes, typographic
characters, electronics and many more. You can even create and use your
own graphics. The basic controls are extremely simple but the gameplay
is varied enough to provide hours of fun. With map sizes starting from 5
x 5 to 50 x 50 the amount of maps is practically endless. (many extra
maps)

Noinstall in anything is getting harder to find all the time.

HTH

Mike Sa
 
Bob Adkins said:
That's because 95% of all computer users are too dumb to use the Windows
Explorer. ;)
Click to expand...

Ugh, it's grim... Bob, I think 95% might be about the right number. (How
many millions of AOLers are there these days?) Still, I don't see why
more programmers can't make available a bicycle alongside the tricyle.
 
I got this idea this morning, prompted by responding to the autorun
thread. I've been racking my brain for Xmas gift ideas and thought
that an autorun featuring a bunch of no-install games would be a great
idea. No-install so that they're "launchable" right on the CD without
installing to hdd.

I've been doing some searching and thought I'd found quite a few but
it turns out only 1 out of all of them are no install and free.

3DMaze at Son of Spy's site:
http://www.anycities.com/user1/sonofspy/Games.html

Here's hoping anyone here knows more. As I find some, will post.
Perhaps someone else feels this will make a nice gift, too, for
someone they know.
Click to expand...

Thanks everyone for your suggestions! Lots to start with.
 
Anonymous said:
You might want to look at flash games. If you do them as .swf file
Click to expand...
Many Java games can be done this way too. Grab the html an dthe .jar
file and put them in the same directory.
 
You can play stand-alone swf files with the free Swiff player.

http://www.globfx.com/products/swfplayer/
Click to expand...

Tried it for a game, NOT very successful - the spacebar used in many
is interpreted as Pause/Play

This player seems to be effective ONLY for purely linear, no
interaction animations - if you find a way of persuading it to do
otherwise, please tell - I thought I'd download a ton of stuff from
"project-design"'s flash games page - if you need more in the way of a
URL, i'll increase it, but I really don't want to overload them.
 
Tried it for a game, NOT very successful - the spacebar used in many
is interpreted as Pause/Play

This player seems to be effective ONLY for purely linear, no
interaction animations - if you find a way of persuading it to do
otherwise, please tell - I thought I'd download a ton of stuff from
"project-design"'s flash games page - if you need more in the way of a
URL, i'll increase it, but I really don't want to overload them.
Click to expand...

I imagine then that embedding in an HTML file then creating an html
index file for the folder with the flash games in will be the way to
go then. Then in one of the menus of the CD autorun, just need to
access that index file. Sounds good to me and totally do-able.!
 
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