Backgammon Pro for Palm OS®

An expert backgammon opponent with a wealth of customizable features

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Submitted:	3/30/2009
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Download Time:	17 sec @ DSL (300Kb/s)
Requirements:	Palm OS 3.3 or greater

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Backgammon Pro for Palm OS is a full-featured, endlessly customizable version of this classic board game.

Features:

• Fully functional doubling cube
• Undo current move: Up to 50 levels of undo available after playing 200 games.
• Pip Count
• 6 boards: Includes Leather (Hi Resolution), Future, Brown, Black & White, Wood, and Traditional.
• 2 Fair Random Die Generators: You can enter the random seed to replay dice patterns over again, or enter your own dice to ensure that the dice rolls are random and fair.
• Cheating die generator. This option shows you what it is like to lose to the Palm much more often.
• Suggest Moves: To learn what the palm would do for a given roll.
• Learning opponent: The computer will analyze games and adjust its strategy against you! You may also manually set the 14 actions the palm evaluates when making a move, and store up to four different computer personalities. You can make an aggressive opponent, a defensive opponent, etc.
• IR game play: Two players can play against each other with two handhelds.
• 4 Levels of computer skill: The skill is directly related to the opponents thinking. The skill level alters the computer's mistake rate. Beginner makes more mistakes than Expert.
• Single Tap moves
• Visitor Mode: So your friends don't mess up your statistics.
• Several computer game play styles
• Play as Black or White
• Reversible board direction
• Save Games and play them later
• Replay games - try different choices
• Rewatch completed games
• Online Help
• Auto Rolling Dice
• Human or Computer opponent

Version info

v.1.27 - Current release version - released on June 15th, 2005. This version fixes a bug that would crash Backgammon Pro on certain handhelds.

v.1.26 - Released on May 25th, 2005. This version fixes display problems on older devices running Palm OS 3.3 and adds animation options for the dice.

v.1.25 - Released on April 22nd, 2005. Fixes a bug that appeared on Treo and Zire model handhelds, and corrects default menu options.

v.1.23 - Released April 5th, 2005. This version features full 5-way support, hard button gameplay functionality, compatibility with landscape and portrait modes, and new dice animation.

v.1.21 - Released August 10th, 2004. The Clie display bug has been addressed with this version.

v.1.2 - Released on February 9th, 2004. Features Full screen support for Tapwave and Tungsten handhelds.

1.06 (11/22/02)

Palm OS 5 compatible

1.03 (8/13/02)

Doubling Cube problem on Hi Res fixed

Grey Scale and B&W graphics greatly improved

Internal changes making potential speed increase on older palms.