Filed under: Security, Utilities, Windows
by Jordan Running Dec 6th 2005
You can run Firefox and Thunderbird off a USB drive, and you can boot Linux from most anything, but did you know that you can run Windows XP off a flash drive? Me neither. Tom's Hardware has a slick guide to installing XP on your 256MB-or-bigger USB flash drive with Bart PE Builder for use as an emergency kit for un-borking your busted PC.
I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David Boss said 7:45AM on 12-07-2005
I've used this program in the past and its very good. But I used it to create a portable version of Xp that could be run straight from your cd-rom drive with no installation necessary.
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Belgatom said 9:59AM on 12-07-2005
site seems to be down? A petty, was really looking forward to trying that out.
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Paranoised said 12:51PM on 12-07-2005
That Flash Disk mock up looks sweet, I'd buy that.
And how come Tom's Hardware site is so slow? It feels like it was hosted on a dial up connection.
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Elias G. said 9:33AM on 12-08-2005
Cool. I've run BartPE from a CD-ROM and it's very slow and takes a long time to boot. Hopefully it can run very fast from a flash drive.
-- Elias
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