Backgammon Pro for Palm OSŪ
$15.00
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.
Latest Reviews
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Best Backgammon game for the Palm OS
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by Jeanne Aske
from Nisswa, Minnesota
on Nov 16, 2005 - I tried all the backgammon games for the OS Palm and Backgammon Pro by Stand Alone is the best one.
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Lacking in imagination
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by a reviewer
from Denver, Colorado
on Feb 18, 2005 - I downloaded the trial version and tried to play a game. It rolled the same dice for all but one of 10 rolls. I did not continue playing
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Challenging game well presented
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by Rob
from London
on May 11, 2004 - I'm not an expert backgammon player by any means but this program is giving me a good training ground. I've tried quite a few of the backgammon games out there and this is definitely the best. 2-player mode is a boon too.
Download Details
- File Information
- 17 sec download @ 300Kb/s
- 624KB Installed
- Updated 3/30/2009
- Features
Handango Mobile Ready
Color application- Minimum Requirements
- Palm OS 3.3 or greater
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