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RE: Does it take up space
RE: Does it take up space
Stand Alone's Backup
Parens and MathPad
Thanks for the great programs, Rick.
RE: Parens and MathPad
RE: Parens and MathPad
Also, didn't Parens get shipped with just about every non-Palm PalmOS PDA? What will happen to those devices (new ones, not existing ones)? I don't think there is a replacement, is there?
RE: Parens and MathPad
RE: Parens and MathPad
Full function symbolic/geometric analytical calc
http://www.saltire.com/samples.html
HP48Gx emulator (similar to TI-89)
http://web.jet.es/leobueno/software_de_leo.htm
RE: Parens and MathPad
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Dear Parens & MathPad Customer:
We are pleased to announce that Rick Huebner has joined Infinity Softworks as a senior developer. While Rick has enjoyed developing his own applications, he is excited about merging his expertise with Infinity's line of products to create something really spectacular for the handheld platform.
As part of this transition, we are discontinuing sales of Parens and MathPad so that we can collectively focus on the next generation of calculator and analysis software.
Infinity Softworks will continue to support both products, so feel free to contact info@infinitysw.com if you have any support questions.
In appreciation of your faithful support of Rick over the years, we are offering a 50% discount on powerOne(tm) Finance and powerOne Graph exclusively to Parens and MathPad owners. These calculators offer both simple and advanced functions with an easy-to-use interface. In fact, they are powerful enough to replace hardware calculators from Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard costing over $100. Best of all they are easy to expand using the built-in solver. Over 100 free templates are available from our web site.
MathPad users should be able to move many of their solutions to powerOne Finance's or powerOne Graph's built-in equation solver. Please contact us if you have any questions about the compatibility of the powerOne Solver with MathPad.
This is a special offer and available for a limited time only. Please visit [address deleted for this posting]
RE: Parens and MathPad
What I can't believe is how incredibly huge the PowerOne calculators are, and how hard they are to use in hex mode. There are no A - F buttons! You must write them with Grafiti. Also you must start each hex value with a numeric, meaning FF is expressed as 0FFh. That would take a lot of getting used to. I'm sure their products have a lot of other functionality, like graphing, etc., but 500k for a hi-res programmers calculator (all I really need) is pretty ridiculous, not to mention the $50 price tag.
Of course, I'll continue using Parens until I find something better. But the infinity PowerOne products aren't it. My hope is that Rick can bring something to them that will allow them to create a product that interests me.
RE: Parens and MathPad
I noticed that both products have been pulled *completely* from any online site, as well as Rick's site. While this is understood, where do registered users go to download a copy if they've managed to lose their local copy of the latest version??? I'd have preferred to see the downloads stay on at least Rick's site with a note that no further registrations would be accepted.
Oh, and I agree with the above poster about PowerOne. Nice calculator, but its huge compared to Parens. Let's just hope that Parens continues to work going forward (ie, with Palm OS 5, etc) or I'll have to start looking for another calculator. Shame.
RE: Parens and MathPad
Hey for you RPN geeks, check out P41CV at palmgear. It's and HP41CV! And there's a free version that keeps programs even after turning off the machine! Way cool!
Gregg
gfreeby@hotmail.com
RE: Parens and MathPad
Rick
rick@lapps.net
RE: Parens and MathPad
Tell InfinitySW that you want Parens!
Send your email to: info@infinitysw.com
-Eric
RE: hires+
For all you Lemmings fans,
We have created another absolutely gorgeous Lemmings level pack. This package includes 10 levels - both easy and hard versions. It is appropriately called "New Age". There is a garden, atom bath, tree house, paparizzi escape mansion, and a wicked maze to name a few. It also has a few features never used before in our past Lemmings level packs. Lemmings is one of those few games that not only supports grayscale/color and 160x160/240x240/320x320 modes but pushes the boundaries of what a Palm game can do (in speed, visual experience and memory size).
http://www.ardiri.com/index.php?redir=palm&cat=lemmings&subcat=levels&pack=newage
Enjoy!
Chip Kerchner
chip@ardiri.com
Lemming show you a great game
Lemmings - New Age
Lemmings - Infinity
Lemmings - Xmas
Lemmings - Genesis
RE: hires+
// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
RE: hires+
I have to say it is probably better if you could
have a very simple demo to let people to install
it on their Palm to try it.
All the 10 levels for just $7.5? You guys kill
the Palm gaming market. :-(
ted
RE: hires+
RE: hires+
have a very simple demo to let people to install
it on their Palm to try it.
the lemmings demo has 7 of the original levels (trainers) in it - so, you can get familiar with the game itself. the level packs are add-ons, something you purchase seperately.
All the 10 levels for just $7.5? You guys kill
the Palm gaming market. :-(
each level pack has two configs (easy + hard) - the game itself could differ tremendously between the two! not to mention there are bundle packs for the levels too. $7.50 for one, $12.50 for two..
as for game pricing? think your talking to the wrong people about the "expensiveness" of applications. you can see a lot of *junk* out there (i wont mention any names) with $14.95 or $19.95 price tags on it - many of which, an experienced developer can write in 2-3 days solid. lemmings is a much more complex game, as is our upcoming deity3D - dont you think the price of a game should be relative to its complexity/time taken to write? :)
// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
RE: hires+
Does that mean the game cannot be played on a Treo k?
RE: hires+
1) Use Graffiti, or
2) Use the pen to move the cursor to the extreme left or right of the screen, or
3) Use the keys
RE: hires+
I meant the price is too low.
Many Palm game programmers are going to be on
the street with a sign "will work for food." :-(
I went to the web site and read that there is no demo,
try, etc. Maybe I read it wrong.
ted
RE: hires+
RE: hires+
woops.. i didn't read it like that :) my bad - the level packs are primarially images and configs.. nothing special in them really.. the freeware demo is something that has taken all our time to write :P it does, however, take some skill to generate some *hard* levels *g*
// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
RE: hires+
http://www.ardiri.com/palm/lemmings/
you need to have the demo in order to use the level pack.
// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
RE: hires+
So I didn't understand the web well. Now I think
I get it.
As the price, I don't know. I just thought
you guys seem to price this game lower
than the game sw market, consider the quality of
your game.
ted
It is on the HS site?
~twizza [bought a 32mb card and has BBVFS and didnt pay $50 for it]
RE: It is on the HS site?
-Ryan
Well... Yea?
And 9 out of 10 people who lose their wallet/purse just lost A book of blank checks, ATM Cards and Credit cards... :)
justification?
// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
Went to work for the competition
RE: justification?
ahhh.. could have open sourced it :) let someone continue the legacy :P i wouldn't be too sure of having him keep his job at the "new place" either in the state the market is in.. maybe we'll see a new release when the company cuts back employees :) [lets hope that never happens] :P
// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
Lemmings Licensing?
Um, just curious, how is ardiri.com selling Lemmings(R) without a license?
I thought for sure they had worked out a deal with Psygnosis (now owned by Sony, right?) but this line is still on ardiri.com:
"This website is in no way associated with DMA Design or Psygnosis. "Lemmings" is a trademark of Psygnosis and has been used on this website without permission but to recognise the original source of the game idea this software imitates. DMA Design, nor Psygnosis has not been involved in any way with the development of this software."
Clones are one thing (that ardiri.com has already been spanked for), but using a trademark and copyrighted artwork seems a bit much.
I'm just curious if there is a deal in place (if so, cool) or if ardiri.com is just collecting money until the letters start arriving from the lawyers (bummer).
IMA
RE: Lemmings Licensing?
RE: Lemmings Licensing?
lemmings.prc = freeware demo, contains specifically that we are interested in contacting the copyright/trademark owners to obtain a license to produce the *real* thing on pda's. right now, the lemmings demo doesn't have full functionality of the original game - but, its a freebie (ie: you dont pay for it) and, we were testing a game engine we have been writing.. we dont make any money on the lemmings program itself.
by popular demand, we did add functionality to the freeware demo to load custom level packs into it. these level packs contain no copyrighted information at all - and, are hand edited in photoshop or whatever using portions of background images which are publically available anywhere on the web (there was a lemmings level editor way back) :P
i myself, love lemmings.. and, writing it on the palm was a fun challenge.. beats doing some puzzle game :) there were a lot of hurdles we had to get by to get it working, and, the challenge was great (just like the challenge to write a gameboy emulator). you dont want to know what we got planned for ARM units *g*
ardiri.com is a hobbyist group - we dont make money (not enough to be fulltime at it) that is not our interest.. if we wanted to employ ourselves, we'd have a different approach. all proceeds from our software end up letting us travel to palmsource events to meet other developers, have a beer here and there and get some new hardware to make the games everyone wants. there is no real business model, and, we would happily shutdown tommorow if we needed/felt like it. we do palm stuff cause it is fun we all have fulltime (well paying) jobs elsewhere :)
// az
aaron@ardiri.com
http://www.ardiri.com/
RE: Lemmings Licensing?
what you have planned for ARM units. :-)
Just half kidding. Hopefully you will have some great
games for ARM.
I assume the games on ARM would be much better
for Palms than the current ones. I think the day
soon will come that people would not mention gameboys
again when we talk about games on Palms.
ted
RE: Lemmings Licensing?
There was some talk about SEGA writing a game API for Palmsource. Just out of curiosity is this API useful/ are you using this API?
SEGA API
Nah, we can do better than that *g*
But seriously, we've got our own proven framework.
While it is convenient to have some general functions in the form of an API at your disposal, we like to be able tweak these to get the most out of the hardware.
Our most demanding games (Lemmings & the Deity3D engine) are the result of some pretty heavy low-level optimizing.
The API might be useful indeed to people who want to write less complicated games fast.
But for processor intensive games which use lots of sprites, must update the whole screen every frame or do complex 3D rotations you'd want to rely on our your own routines.
Ivo Jager
ivo@ardiri.com
Adios Parens
Sigh. I hate it when good things come to an end!
Mathpad gone...OH NO!...How to Register
Thanks,
Steve Charles
vision450@hotmail.com
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Does it take up space
Personally, I think this card is overpriced at $50...but then again, you get the knowledge knowing your data is backed up...if you use the software!
What they need is automatic back-up cards.