Re: computer-go: Re: Computer opportunity

[ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> 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.

I develop a program called Went, which is a goban for the Psion Series 5[mx]
palmtop.  I've been toying with the idea of putting some AI support into
the program, but I've reached an impasse.  Namely my expertise in Go, and time
constraints (this is a hobby project for me).  One of these days, Alice...
One of these days...

At any rate, I must say that the Psion is a wonderful platform to work on,
and the 5mx (the enhanced model) has a 36 mHz ARM processor (IIRC), and
16 megs of memory.  Development can be done in either C/C++ or in OPL, an
internal perl-ish interpreted language.  It's also reasonably easy to
integrate the two, with OPL as a front end to (the faster) C routines.
But I'm going to stop advertising now, and just give you the link to the
company site: http://www.psion.com/

Oh, yeah, some of you might be curious about my crappy code:
http://facade.dhs.org/ed/psion/
The code is under the GPL license, and is thus available for download.
Enjoy -- and thanks.

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