Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Ben Shoemaker
Ian wrote: I'm surprised that the big names in Go programming a decade ago haven't ported their programs to the small handheld platforms. I only know of AI Go for the Nintendo DS (Many Faces). In the chess arena, Richard Lang ported his last

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread terry mcintyre
From: Ben Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] I used a Palm for many years. I believe Chess Genius was a great success because it was quite fast (nearly instant response time) yet it was strong enough to give the average user a good game. All the Go programs I

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Don Dailey
That makes sense, considering past programs. But Don Dailey is apparently on the trail of a faster and better player for the Palm. On the one hand, I wonder if the Palm architecture has reached end-of-life. But on the other hand, discovering how to improve Go programs for tiny computers

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Joshua Shriver
I've greatly enjoyed Aigo over the years. I have it on my palm and have upgrade hardware 3x and each time the author has kindly given me a new registration code for free. Think it only cost $8 and well worth it. Just my $0.02 -Josh ___ computer-go

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Ben Shoemaker
First of all, I apologize for the one word per line-quoting in my previous message. It apparently has to do with plain/text, Yahoo Mail Beta, and firefox not playing well together. (I have switched back to Yahoo Mail Classic as a work around.) --- Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In

Re: [computer-go] chess/go for handhelds

2008-02-07 Thread Hideki Kato
Though I'm not good at PDA market in Japan, reading Japanese wikipedia, it's seems very small. Sony, which had been making and selling an original Palm, CLIE serie, stopped manifacturing and retired from PDA 2005, for example. No Japanese company sell Palm devices now. I've checked Japanese