are there portable versions of winboard?

[tatagi]

I found one at https://portableapps.com/apps/games/winboard_portable

but not sure if it is safe and legit to use


seems like there's no official winboard portable available out there, but can't hurt to make sure.

[Roland Chastain]

Hello! There is this package: WinBoard-AA.zip

I have it on a USB key. As far as I remember, it works perfectly, without special precaution.

I have a command file named winboard.cmd with this line:

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@%~d0\applications\echecs\winboard-aa\winboard\winboard.exe %*

I can paste it anywhere on my key and use it to start WinBoard.

[H.G.Muller]

WinBoard is intrinsically portable. In the binary installer of WinBoard 4.8 I configured it to put the user settings file (where settings are saved) in the user's AppData folder, though, to make sure every user of a Windows system would have his own settings, and wouldn't spoil settings of another user. For a portable package it would be more logical to store the user settings in the WinBoard folder itself.

I happen to be working on a new release of WinBoard (4.9.4?). This will probably be done as a portable package. A beta version of that (especially tailored to the needs of blind people) can be found at http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-4.9.a.zip .