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From the website [ext] http://minas.ithil.org/pilotgone/pilotgone.html :

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:

One is used to extract sgf files from the palm desktop and the other one can be used to import many sgf files at once. Try them, they're freeware. (Martin Schmidt, April 2003)


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:

  1. Download goproblems in .sgf format
  2. Download PilotGOne SGF viewer from [ext] http://minas.ithil.org/pilotgone/pilotgone.html
  3. Download a program to transfer the sgf files into a .mpa file which can be imported by the Palm Desktop Application 4.0. using [ext] http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~masch/sgftompa.html : This program is the key to this issue as it allows for copying in sgfs without the slow cutting and pasting, which makes using the database impossible.
  4. 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


Kritz: There is a small Unix script available which strips the rank (difficulty) and the genre (fuseki,...) off the goproblems.com files and adds a meaningful GN for all of them.

The link for the script is: [ext] http://www.goproblems.com/zorum/index.php?method=showhtmllist&list=message&rollid=3%2C76&clearoff=1&

MarkD

Thanks for the link .... kritz


For other Go software for the Palm see the PalmPilot page - Hans Wiezorke


Follow up to the above discussion initiated by Kritz

I am using PilotGOne with my Palm Vx. After converting SGF files to MPA they show up in my memopad with funny names like "(;GM[1]FF[4]CAUTF-8?" (the first chars of the SGF file).
PilotGOne accepts memopad entries with characters before the "(;" sequence. E.g. "5th Honinbo Title Match (;....". The effect of this is, that they show up with proper names in your game list.
PilotGOne has a built in function to add these titles. For sorting and archiving it seems to be better to do this on the PC and transfer the result to the Palm.

I am thinking about a small windows application with several functions:

  • Convert goproblems.com files and add difficulty level and genre to the GN variable (like the Unix shell script on their site)
  • Add a meaningful name in front of the SGF file (e.g. "Prob. 234, Fuseki, Easy")
  • Maybe add a SGF to MPA converter, so that that whole conversion process is just one step


Any suggestions or comments for this?

Another question: I have some problem when converting KGS games to .mpa format with the SGFtoMPA tool. Some files just won't work. Anybody else with this problem?

The answer is on the page of the converter: "only sgf files smaller than 4 KB (4096 bytes) are accepted (because thats the limit for memopad entries)"

Hm. A lot of my SGF files are bigger than 4k. So maybe a feature for splitting the files would be useful? PilotGOne has a function to join these files automatically. -- MarkD


Grauniad (20 July 2003): A new version of PilotGOne has just been released. Version 0.8.1 has much improved commands for navigating within and between variations, support for one-colour go (see Hikaru No Go, Chapter 120), and many other minor improvements. As before, PilotGOne can be downloaded from [ext] http://minas.ithil.org/pilotgone/. The documentation may also be dowloaded from or read at the same URL.



This is a copy of the living page "PilotGOne" at Sensei's Library.
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