computer-go: Computer opportunity

[Davis <gdavis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For my work, I just acquired a PalmPilot, and in addition to a vast
array of third-party business products, a tremendous number of games
have been written for the platform (I will not comment about what this
says about business users).  Most of the add-ons are shareware, but a
few are offered commercially.  Unfortunately, there are no Go products
available.

I don't believe that the screen is large enough for full game playing
(Chess and Mahjongg are available), but it would be ideal for
interactive Life and Death problems, Joseki practice, etc.  The
manufacturers, 3Com, are extremely vendor friendly -- they offer two
levels of company certification ("Palm Computing Platform Compatible"
and "Platinum Certified").  The programming language is supposed to be
easy to use.  The main web sites are:<Palm.com>  <PalmCentral.com> and
the Product Quality Partners, <qpqa.com/qp3com.html>.

I am not a programmer, but I would love to encourage those who are to
explore this opportunity.  By the way, there are a couple of bonus
situations.  First, the manufacturers have come out with a reasonably
cheap model PalmPilot, which would be fine for Go enthusiasts (even if
they don't use if for work), and second, if a game client could be
written for the small screen, all the current units all have modem ports
that can be used for email, browsing the web, "game playing," etc.

If anyone accepts the challenge, please let me know.

(Also, if the reader is not interested, but knows someone who is, please
forward).