computer-go: Re: Computer opportunity

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a palm, and have tried two go recording shareware
programs available for it.  The processor is too slow
and there is too little memory for a go playing program,
but a life and death problem program would be interesting, and
easy to write.  I would do it, if I thought it would make any
money.  Otheriwise, I'm too busy with Many Faces version 11.

David

At 08:04 PM 12/23/99 -0500, Davis wrote:
>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).
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