Re: [OT] Installing Pocket PC Applications to run from a MMC card without a PPC

[Tim Allen <tim.allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hang on, you mean doing something on an Microsoft platform is more=20
complicated?

/is shocked and stunned

On 18 Mar 2005, at 11:43 am, Ward, David wrote:

> Sorry for the OT post,
>
>  Being a Palm PDA user I'm totally stuck with this problem
>
>  I=A0 have bought some AstraWare games to give as a present
>  Ideally I would like to give these games pre-installed on a MMC
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> so that all the recipient has to do is run the game and enter their=20
> registration key....
>  I have done this with Palm games in the past, with the palm all I=20
> have to do is copy the files to a MMC or SD card and they pop up in=20
> the application launcher when the card is inserted.
>
>  The PPC versions come packaged as a exe installer which plonks
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> Cab files in a directory on the PC and registers them with=20
> activesync.=A0
>
>  does anyone know if I can extract from the Cab and bung them on a
MMC=20
> card ?=A0
>
>  I don't have access to a PPC to try test=A0 the install either :-S
>
>  failing all this I'll guess I should burn a CD with the exe and
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> Birthday boy will just have to wait until they get to a PC to
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> and play the games,=A0 which isn't ideal...
>
>
>  Any help or thoughts appreciated
>
>  Dave