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PilotGOne
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From the website PilotGOne does three things - records a game of Go (WeiQi/Wei-Ch'i, Baduk); plays back existing SGF files, including variations and comments; is a board, for stand-alone play while travelling. You can edit SGF files, but it is not a full-featured SGF editor. It can be used with problem collections, and joseki/jungsuk/dingshi dictionaries. We keep adding new features. The SGF source lives in PalmOSŪ memos, so you can simply edit the memos to make any changes to the SGF record that you want. It is for any PalmOSŪ 2.0, or later, handheld device. One of the few that supports the SGF format with alternatives. However be warned that if you use a Handspring Visor with OS 3.5 or later there is a very bad bug that will crash your PDA when you try to get to the menu. Remillard I use this program in my Palm M100. It works great for playing Go on the go. However, I am not so sure the scoring is accurate. BenAxelrod
I am a happy user of PilotGone and wrote two little windows tools to import/export sgf files from/to the Palm Desktop: I figured out how to get the Goproblems.com database onto a palmpilot or visor. This allows for a mobile way to utilize the database. ALL of the problems fit on my palm. It is fairly simple and works really well. Using the sgf viewer PilotGone, all of the comments are available as are the variations. The key was to find a method to transfer many sgf files into the palm memopad system. This of course is Martin Schmidt's afore mentioned program! Steps: A) Download goproblems in .sgf format
B) Download PilotGone SGF viewer from
C) Download a program to transfer the sgf files into a .mpa file which can be imported by the Palm Desktop Application 4.0. using
D) import the .mpa file into the palm using the palm desktop application. That’s it! It works great. There is one small problem you may be able to help with. This is managing the files on the handheld. All sgf viewers on palms appear to use the game name ( GN? variable in SGF ) as a record indicator. For example, PilotGone has a function which modified the first line of the sgf to be the game name, thus making it available as the a record name. Is it possible to modify the SGF of your problems to include the genera from the goproblems database? I see on the site that most problems have an associated Genera and "hardness value" combined. This would be great. It would allow sorting in pilotGone by genera after downloading the whole database. It appears the problem sgfs are not currently using the GN? variable in the goproblem sgfs. I separated the problems in the palm using separate catagories e.g. Fuseki Just a thought KRITZ This is a copy of the living page "PilotGOne" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |