Comments on: Cybersaurus Review for Palm OS

Cybersaurus is a thrilling new action game from Darxun Games for Palm OS 5.2 and later devices. The game’s storyline is a hodgepodge of elements inspired by Beast Wars-era Transformers and the BattleTech/MechWarrior universe. The game’s tired storyline consists of your Raptor 9000 mech being the Earth’s only hope against a race of evil Robosaurs. The mechanized Robosaurs civilization used Earth's original Dinosaurs as inspiration for their sleek, metallic instruments of destruction. Now in the year 2513 they have returned to reclaim the planet for themselves. Read on for the full game review...

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Mech

legodude522 @ 6/19/2006 8:22:01 PM #

Awesome! It's a Mech game. I'm a Pentium 1 generation kid I suppose. This is what we did for PC gaming. Mech Warrior 2, oh the fun :-)

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How Ironic

PacManFoo @ 6/20/2006 10:23:40 AM #

It's ironic how Cobalt was killed because of backward compatibility issues and yet new software is coming out OS 5.2 or better now. This is the third piece of software in a week my Tungsten T has been unable to run.

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RE: How Ironic

hkklife @ 6/20/2006 11:03:35 AM #

I think it's actually more a matter of CPU speed than anything. That's likely the main reason that a handful of otherwise capable but sub-200mhz Tungstens & Zires have trouble with this game.

As I posted last week, I've never seen anything in computing where within the same version of an OS (OS 5.0 to OS 5.4.9) so many apps have been broken and/or crippled.

Between the apathy of the POS software developers and Palm's continued hacking/tweaking/breaking of the OS, compatability with anything not updated in the past 18 months is becoming a very uncertain thing indeed.

Perhaps Palm is quietly acknowledging this on the basis of data claiming that "Treo users only install X handful of 3-rd party applications on their devices" and Palm's increasingly generous out-of-the-box software bundles.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

RE: How Ironic

relyons @ 6/20/2006 12:38:25 PM #

hkklife said, "As I posted last week, I've never seen anything in computing where within the same version of an OS (OS 5.0 to OS 5.4.9) so many apps have been broken and/or crippled."

From my experience, applications break within releases of 5.x because the programmer wasn't using the Palm OS API properly in the first place. It appears that previous versions of the Palm OS handled or ignored improper calls when it could in the production ROMs to avoid crashes.

I personally noticed problems in my applications when devices with non-volatile memory were introduced (Tungsten E2, LifeDrive, Treo 650). The DmQueryRecord API call views records in the storage memory. However, a rogue DmQueryRecord call in my code was updating those records instead of using DmGetRecord. Previous versions of the Palm OS forgave my sin. The non-volatile versions punished me out of necessity until I discovered it and fixed it. :)

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The_Voice_of_Reason @ 6/20/2006 4:22:51 PM #

Good. Blame the victim. PalmSource is completely innocent.

TVoR

RE: How Ironic

hkklife @ 6/20/2006 4:29:03 PM #

No, Voice, the true victims are "we the suckers" (the customers--remember Mike Cane's editioral from a while back?) who keep forking over $ for apps/games that keep on getting broken.

Not to mention all the $ handed to Palm for buggy hardware that pulls the rug out from under a handful of apps every time a minor OS "upgrade" occurs.

And not with Palm's wacky button reassigning on NVFS devices, certain games that still RUN are nigh unusable unless they have all buttons remappable. Some fairly modern (updated/released within the passt 12 months) entertainment titles still have major issues with the home button introduced on the LD, TX & 700P.

The T3, despite its very shaky hardware, OS-wise, is still the most robust Palm product of recent vintage.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

RE: How Ironic

relyons @ 6/20/2006 6:04:48 PM #

TVoR belched, "Good. Blame the victim. PalmSource is completely innocent."

Readers: Here are the guidelines that TVoR used to reply to my post.

1. Don't confirm other people's assertions for yourself. That takes time away from writing dribble.

2. Use lots and lots of boldface. Arguments appear much stronger in boldface.

3. Overreact. Imply that operating system manufacturers are never at fault.

4. Important: Write post after post about a handheld operating system that you believe is dead. Keep writing about how dead it is for months and months after you convinced yourself that it's dead.

The only true victims are the readers of this forum that have to wade through TVoR's posts. Long term brain damage, that...

RE: How Ironic

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 6/21/2006 9:52:04 PM #

relyons, I love you too. Have a nice day, Sweetie.

TVoR

P.S. While my post used boldface, you on the other hand are a BOLDFACED LI*R.

RE: How Ironic

relyons @ 6/21/2006 11:10:18 PM #

TVoR said, "P.S. While my post used boldface, you on the other hand are a BOLDFACED LI*R."

The facts defeated TVoR in the Motorola Q topic. The facts defeated TVoR in this topic.

No boldface was necessary...

Isn't it ironic?

The_Voice_of_Reason @ 6/22/2006 10:40:10 PM #

The facts defeated TVoR in the Motorola Q topic. The facts defeated TVoR in this topic.

No boldface was necessary...

Please keep up with the BOLDFACED LI*S.

TVoR
(Undefeated, and still the champion)

Does this work with a 700P?

yOyOYoo @ 6/21/2006 3:51:43 PM #

anyone tried this game on their treo yet?

RE: Does this work with a 700P?

hkklife @ 6/21/2006 3:59:55 PM #

My review stated that it did work on my 700P. It was not as fast as the TX was in 320*320 mode and I did have some crashes on the 700P but it did work reasonably well.

I think this game looks for devices with a fast CPU primarily with a large helping of DBCache of secondary importance.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P