MDM Releases Three New Titles

Posted By: Ryan Monday, September 20, 2004 12:22:35 PM

Mobile Digital Media today announced three new Palm OS Application bundle SD card. The new titles include a Directions on the go mapping card, Centipede & More Classic Games collection and a Zondervan NIV Study Bible Suite.

Directions on-the-go
Directions on-the-go is a unique product offering complete on-device navigation, without the need of a PC connection or wireless carrier signal, for millions of handheld device owners. With Directions on-the-go, users choose major metropolitan areas or cities from the CDROM or a website and load their selection onto their smartphone or PDA. Once the metro area or city has been loaded, users can calculate and display door-to-door, turn-by-turn directions at any time right on their device. Directions on-the-go is compatible with Palm OS 5.0 and higher devices and sells for $39.99 uSD.

Centipede & More Classic Games
Centipede & More Classic Games represents a broad selection of popular and award winning mobile games offered in one CD-ROM collection for both Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices. Centipede & More Classic Games includes 8 individual titles covering a variety of game genres from arcade to sports to strategy to puzzles.

The card includes:

Centipede, the officially licensed Atari 2600 game for your handheld device, reproduced with absolute authenticity; powered by a sophisticated emulation engine and designed specifically for mobile use.
Snails, the award winning action and strategy game, has been continuously developed for over two years and features fantastic graphics, sounds, background music and exciting game play.
Kasparov Chessmate, powered by an advanced chess engine, this popular mobile game is designed to provide hours of thrilling contests for players of all skill levels. Endorsed by Grand Master Garry Kasparov, Kasparov Chessmate is a chess adventure that turns a handheld device into a challenging opponent.
Tennis Addict, incorporates realistic ball physics, vivid graphics, and an easy-to-play stylus interface to accurately control your serves, player moves and racquet. The game offers multiple court-types and 16 fully-animated opponents, each with unique abilities.
Spellbound, the original, interactive word game! Form words from the game board’s jumbled letter tiles to complete the goal for each round. As words are spelled, they disappear from the board, and new lettered tiles fall into place.
Slurp. Grab your straw, slurp up the colored drops, and clear the board. As you slurp, remaining drops reform into different shapes.
GameBox Solitaire, an amazing collection of 10 well-known, high quality card games. Crisp graphics, high quality music and sound effects, smooth card animations and fantastic playability make this a wildly popular mobile title.
The Emperor’s Mahjong, the ancient Chinese tile puzzle that goes with you anywhere! Master spheres of knowledge, ascend through levels before a final challenge. Mahjong features 72 unique board layouts in six themes. Plus, you can create and save your own layouts.

Centipede & More Classic Games is compatible with Palm OS® 5.0, it is available now at nationwide retailers, online resellers and at gomdm.com for $29.99.

NIV Study Bible Suite
The Zondervan NIV Study Bible Suite features the best selling NIV Study Bible. Since its release in 1985, the NIV Study Bible has continuously remained on the Bible bestseller list and has sold over 6 million copies to date. The Zondervan NIV Study Bible Suite also includes five other popular Bible translations, devotionals, reading plans, and a unique memorization tool bundled together in one CD-ROM collection. Combining the best selling printed Bible, for the first time ever available for mobile devices, with 5 other Bible translations, supplemental study materials, and applications, makes the NIV Study Bible Suite unique in the mobile software world. NIV Study Bible is compatible with Palm OS 3.1 and sells for $29.99.

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Great, but

Hal2000 @ 9/20/2004 8:18:14 PM #

First post. Holy Moses!
Could this possibly be the best bible study suite?

Zodiac2/T616
1.128 gigs under the hood.

RE: Great, but

andrew.fleisher @ 9/20/2004 8:59:03 PM #

Just a re-packaging of MyBible 3.0, with memorize and reading plans included. All bibles included but the new Zondervan are free on the mybible site.

Regards,

Andrew Fleisher
PG Team Leader
PalmGear.com
http://www.palmgear.com
THE source for your Palm Powered world!

PG Team Leaders are not paid employees of PalmGear.com. The views expressed may not represent those of PalmGear.com.

RE: Great, but

a_nonamiss @ 9/21/2004 10:01:16 AM #

Unless I am mistaken, the actual reader os not free on their site. At least, when I purchased it, it was like $10.00 extra, so with the package, you're basically getting the reader for free. Still, it's a good product. I have been very happy with MyBible. It's a well-done program, and the developers communicate very well, which is to be commended in this day in age.

Arthur

Palm Pilot 1000 > Palm Pilot Professional > Palm III > Palm M100 > Sony Clié PEG-T415 > Palm T|T3

RE: Great, but

crairdin @ 9/29/2004 9:01:24 AM #

The product actually contains both MyBible (Palm OS) and PocketBible (Windows Mobile). It includes our DailyReader and Memorize! programs for both platforms. Total value if purchased separately is about $60-$70. MSRP is $29.99.

You're right that the other Bibles (other than the NIV) are public domain and we give them away for free at our site.

The real news here is the availability of the NIV Study Bible Notes. These haven't been available except in Zondervan's desktop Bible software, and even in that product the notes don't match the most recent printing of the study Bible. The MDM product contains the very latest version of the notes.

Between the notes and the 100,000+ cross-references, it's a pretty powerful tool at a very good price.

Craig Rairdin
President
Laridian, Inc.

Confused

Quickster @ 9/20/2004 9:06:27 PM #

This articles talks about these classic games being on a SD card and also on a CD-ROM and the web site indicates the CD-ROM. What's up with this advertisement. Someone is lying somewhere as there is no mention of an SD card of games on the web site.

RE: Confused

zoara @ 9/21/2004 8:26:41 AM #

Quickster, please apply Occam's razor. The mention of an SD card is more likely to be a simple mistake, rather than a lie.

RE: Confused

hkklife @ 9/21/2004 9:32:43 AM #

I am curious to see if that's the exact same version of Centipede that was on last year's lame Atari Retro MDM card. There was an updated version that came out earlier this year of their Atari emulator (full-screen support was the main attraction) but it was available only for download customers. That really miffed me along with all of the other fans who shelled out $30 for a very underwhelming collection of 2600 ports. I'd like to see a REAL Atari Retro bundle but instead have as many of the old arcade titles as possible. An OS5/6 Palm can do better than a 2600! Or at least give us the Atari 7800 versions!

I am still dreaming of a 320*480 LEGAL & perfect port of arcade Galaga! A T3-style device would be better for those sorts of old arcade titles that had "tall" monitor arrangements but a Zodiac's landscape layout is better for modern games.

Overall, MDM still seems to do the best job of all of the newbie-friendly, retail-oriented content providers. It'd be interesting to compare that new mapping card to a dedicated GPS solution as there's an enormous price between this card and the new P1/TomTom bundle, for example.

RE: Confused

ardiri @ 9/21/2004 4:20:37 PM #

I am curious to see if that's the exact same version of Centipede that was on last year's lame Atari Retro MDM card.

lame? :) come on - its retro *g*

as for its inclusion - yes, it is the same centipede. i believe it was a last minute entry because negotiations with arcade versions (emulators) didn't get resolved with the right financial terms and/or agreements.

while it may be the "original" 2600 version - it is the only officially "branded" title in the pack; that is, something that MDM can stick atari's name on for public recognition (regardless how it compares to the other titles).

in my honest opinion, when i saw the other titles - you would think people would buy it for them; but, they dont. they buy it for the atari trademark, because it is a trademark. without centipede it would be a great pack to in my opinion, some great games there!

There was an updated version that came out earlier this year of their Atari emulator (full-screen support was the main attraction) but it was available only for download customers.

as i mentioned on this website and other websites - if you want to exchange your atari retro for an ESD version; mail me. i have passed on the question to MDM about updating existing MMC cards; and, it is possible - if your techy enough; i could fix that for you.

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Aaron Ardiri
PalmOS Certified Developer
aaron_ardiri@mobilewizardry.com
http://www.mobilewizardry.com/members/aaron_ardiri.php

RE: Confused

hkklife @ 9/21/2004 9:29:23 PM #

Wow, Aaron, I NEVER read about yout offer here or on any other site. I haunt PIC, Brighthand, 1src and PDArcade regularly so that makes it even more surprising! Let me rephrase the "lame" part...the retail MMC I paid $35 for last year was rather "lame". The updated collection I played on a friend's machine was quite good, in fact, but I was so miffed at not being able to use all of the screen space of my new T3 with the card I ordered from buy.com b/c I couldn't find it at retail anywhere!

Anyway, you'll be hearing from me soon in regards to your ESD offer! Glad to see some honest-to-goodness developer support nowadays. I still like the concept of card-based entertainment software simply because sometimes it's nice to be able to buy some new games to play when at the airport or on a trip w/o a laptop.

And retro? lame? LOL, I LOVE lame retro gaming! Just a few more weeks to go until the Midway Arcade Treasures #2 comes out for consoles...I can't wait!

RE: Confused

ardiri @ 9/22/2004 7:57:19 AM #

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=6979

there was a bunch of discussion about how users got from 1.0 -> 2.0 :) you'll see i posted a bunch of times there *g* surprisingly, i have actually received a few MMC cards in my mail! so, it seems to be an offer people are willing to do :)

Anyway, you'll be hearing from me soon in regards to your ESD offer! Glad to see some honest-to-goodness developer support nowadays.

we do our best :) but do contact me offline and i'll organize either a swap out - or, if you have an MMC card reader and are prepared to take a risk; i can get you the new binary image :) the changes were quite small, mainly to the main .exe and .prc files - the resources stayed exactly the same :)

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Aaron Ardiri
PalmOS Certified Developer
aaron_ardiri@mobilewizardry.com
http://www.mobilewizardry.com/members/aaron_ardiri.php