From the website 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.
I created a small program for Palm. Now you can put sgf files on your memory card and using the program convert them into memo notes and then run with PilotGOne. http://in.port5.com/sgf2memo.zip This is the version for OS5, for OS<5 you have to install appropriate SuperWaba? VM (
http://www.superwaba.org/install/) on your palm.
Best wishes,
Stealth
JennyRadcliffe writes: nice little utility; at least, it clearly should be. Only I'm getting a strange little bug report, and there isn't an author contact detail, and I am way, way, way too blonde to understand for myself. Erm. A Null Pointer Exception in Java - naturally I have the whole debug memo, but I don't want to clutter the page up with it. However, erm, if anyone has any advice ... I'd really like to get this utility working ...
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, 04/2003, new links 12/2004)
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:
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: http://www.goproblems.com/zorum/index.php?method=showhtmllist&list=message&rollid=3%2C76&clearoff=1&
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]CA[UTF-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:
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
Try a newer version of SGFtoMPA, it prints messsages if and why files are not accepted. The 4k limit is the most
probable reason though. -- Martin Schmidt
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 http://minas.ithil.org/pilotgone/. The documentation may also be dowloaded from or read at the same URL.
Hunterp: The format of the sgf file does not work with http://gobase.org/online/sgf2misc/ can anyone try it out. The developers of the program leave no email, and the mailing lists look practically dead. Can someone confirm or debunk the issue im having
Chris Hayashida: I have been using PilotGOne for a while. I have noticed that sometimes its output needs to be massaged. Try using the SGF format checker at:
http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/sgfc/munch.html
Hunterp: Thanks Soo much!! this scrubbed it up nicely. I will make a detailed analysis as to what the actual difference is.
Do you know how to get in touch with the development team? as i said, the dev-list has been dead for months, only has 1 email ever and thus does not look promising.
Grauniad: A link to the email addresses of the main developers are provided on the front page of the PilotGOne documentation. You can also write to the mailing lists pilotgone-user or pilotgone-dev, which are read by the developers.
Gerhard If I import games from KGS to PilotGOne, the games are usually in a format that is too big for the memopad in the Palm. Has anyone solved this problem yet?
Zarlan: If you import them into memopad it will spilt it into two memos which PilotGOne can re-merge. The record can then be viewed but not edited, as it is too big. This method seems to work ...well at least until you hotsync again...
I'd like it if PilotGOne would start supporting SGF-files in addition to SGF-memos (preferably with the option of having them on the expantion card in /palm/programs/PilotGOne/ or something)
Chris Hayashida: I have written a Perl script some time ago to deal with this problem. I decided that stripping out the circle tags and the time tags usually is enough to drop the games under 4k. Here is the script:
#!/usr/bin/perl # # sgfstrip.pl # by Chris Hayashida # # Usage: perl sgfstrip.pl <input filename> > <output filename> # # This script removes the CR and time tags from the KGS SGF # files. It can also accept input from standard input and send # output to standard output.
while (<>) { s/CR\[..\]//g; s/WL\[.*?\]//g; s/BL\[.*?\]//g; print; }
This Perl script will remove the CR, and WL/BL (time) tags from the SGF file. I had a version that also did comments (C tag) so that I could load SGF files from KGS et al. into PilotGOne.
Hope this helps someone.