TaiGo for Palm OS
If you have a PDA you may have already noticed that if you leave the handheld without batteries long enough, the data on the main memory disappears.
This is what happened to me yesterday. Fortunately, most things were rescued thanks to a backup I had on my computer which dates back from…. I don’t have a clue… but long time ago. I could rescue Zlauncher and some medical tools but I couldn’t restore my Go program.
I had been using PilotGone for viewing Go games on my palm for a few months, I had even registered some of my games on this handheld in order to review them afterwards. On my way to rescue PilotGone, TaiGo crossed the screen right in front of my eyes. I had been looking for a good palm tool, so I know most of SL posts on this topic and I hadn’t heard of it…
TaiGo is a Go recording applet for Palm Os devices which gives the impression to have just landed on the market. Indeed, although you can find the third version available on the net, you’ll find that this one is a pre-alpha version, with all the bugs and lack of stability of such a state of development. When I installed it I expected my Palm to reset itself every few minutes, or to crash, or to stop working… none of these happened, so I went on testing this new applet.
From what I’ve just seen… It’s very promising. It has quite a lot of nice features, let’s comment on some of them:
-Reads and writes SGF files directly: We’ve been ages waiting for this!!! Till now we needed to turn games into memo files, handling with their size and lack of filtering… You can see a picture of the file’s explorer on the right (extracted from TaiGo’s site)
-Calculates EGF rating of players. Still haven’t tried it. Check that picture too.
-According to the site and the video, it is capable of reading the Kogo’s Joseki Dictionary, which is another major feature.
-Good button customization and good navigation buttons too.
-English and Spanish available: which is logical since it’s a Spanish applet, but it can be changed at the Options Menu.
TaiGo still has some major weaknesses: it is not possible to pass, it’s not possible to re-edit one game after having finished it… I already mentioned it was a pre-alpha version, right? But it is an important project that we keep an eye on.
Here you have a video created by the developers on a Palm Tungsten T3 emulation. The version recorded in this video is in Spanish, but it can be switched into English at the Options Menu.
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