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Can you create a code your opponent can't crack? In this classic two-player strategy game, the rules are simple; one player acts as code-maker and arranges four colored pegs behind a shield on his/her end of the board. Then it's up to the code-breaker to crack the code, guessing at the sequence of pegs the code-maker placed, and trying to duplicate it on the board. After the code-breaker places a row of four pegs, the code-maker uses small white and red pegs to give the code-breaker feedback. A white peg means that the code-breaker has chosen a peg of the right color, but it's in the wrong position. A red peg means that one of the four pegs is the correct color and in the right position. The catch is that the code-breaker has no way to know which one of his pegs is right without some trial and error! Play continues until either all ten rows have been filled unsuccessfully or the code-breaker breaks the code. The code-maker gets points for each row of pegs filled by the code-breaker, or 11 points if the code is not cracked. Then it's time to switch roles and play again. Simple to learn but challenging every time, everyone can enjoy this brain-twisting challenge.
There is an app in the zip that a dana user created called alphafiles.prc that facilitates copying of files to/from alphaword and the sd card, alphaword also supports saving to sd card by selecting "save as" in the menu and then using the pull down to select your SD card instead of the dana. There is no way I know of to make it automatically save there, but the pulldown is there for you to make use of the save location. Once its saved to the card it will then continue to save to the card. On the card it saves to /Palm/Programs/Alphaword/ there is also in /Apps/Office/ in the zip a copy of wordsmith which is what Alphaword was derived from, alphaword is a slimmed down version of wordsmith altered for ease of use and specific features of the Dana, you may want to try wordsmith and compare features to see which you like better. There is a minor issue where installation of wordsmith tends to "take over" alphaword because they are the same app, so your memo key will launch wordsmith and such, this is not a total takeover, you can still manually launch alphaword and you can also use rsrcedit to modify wordsmith.prc to change its version number and such to make the Dana not "prefer" wordsmith over alphaword when they are both installed. Simply deleting wordsmith from the dana will set everything back to normal.As for frobnitz its pretty straightforward you near as I can tell it needs the files either installed directly to the dana or possibly in /Palm/Launcher/ on the SD card, it MAY support a /Palm/Programs/Frobnitz or some directory but I have not tested it extensively. Worth mentioning is that putting large numbers of files into /Palm/Launcher will slow down your launcher significantly at or around 100 or so files, this will cause your launcher (apps screen) to load slowly with a "please wait" and also slow down launcher functions like delete, copy, etc, which are in the menu on the launcher screen. This is not good in my opinion, which is why you want apps to use their own folders for data, like how I had the gameboy games in /Palm/Phoinix/ and how Alphaword puts its docs in /Palm/Programs/Alphaword, this is best practice but not all apps support it, and sometimes ones that do don't document it, which makes it difficult to figure out where it looks for its files. Weasel is an example of an ideal app which can find its files anywhere on the VFS, this is why I put my Ebooks in an /Ebooks/ folder and made sub folders because weasel can find them easily and by keeping each sub folder below 100 or so files, it loads these dirs quickly. As for installing files, if you do as I suggested and buy a 512MB or so card (512mb and 1gb are cheaper than smaller sizes these days), you can put all the data in the zip onto a SD card as-is using your computer and a card reader. Then you can "install" from the SD card using UniCMD. For frobnitz I'm currently keeping all the zcode files on my SD card and copying them to the dana as I need them to play, then deleting them. I'd like to figure out if it supports its own data dir so I can just keep all 500 or so in there and not have to copy them, but as of right now I don't know if it supports this. I'm pretty sure its open source so maybe I can figure it out from the source code.UniCMD is a powerful tool, as you start using your Dana more like a computer you want to learn to use UniCMD and its features. All computers need a good filemanager and UniCMD is a wonderful filemanager. Its a two-paned file manager which functions like "install", "move", "copy" etc, go from the active pane to the inactive pane, the active pane is the larger of the two. You can select the device in the pane using the icon in the top left, to select the internal storage or one of the two cards. The icons on the bottom are less easy to figure out. the most important ones are the second from the left which is a menu that has text decriptions of functions including Edit, send, zip, unzip, cipher, decipher, erase, rename, move, install, copy, then there is the bar above the W and M looking icons which is a horizontal scroll bar that is more responsive than the vertical one in the panes, and another key useful icon is the checkboxes on the right which allow you to select all, select none, and select wildcard, etc. It can also invert a selection. UniCMD is much more than a simple filemanager like FileZ, it also supports use of various computer formats in their native format without conversion including TXT, ZIP, JPEG allowing you to view text files and JPEG images in the file manager and manipulate zip files on the device. It can also encrypt and decrypt files using a password. I highly recommend keeping a copy of this in the /Palm/Launcher/ of your SD card in case your Dana should get wiped out due to a crash or loss of power, then you can reinstall apps using UniCMD from the SD card without needing to sync with the computer.With that in mind, you want to carefully consider which apps you need and where you need them based on your usage. You want to try keep your Dana's memory as free as possible and only put apps on there you need to make it function. I keep a copy of UniCMD on there so I don't have to have it on ALL my memory cards but I also keep at least one copy in /Palm/Launcher/ on a memory card with my backup apps incase I need to reinstall them, if you use BackupVFS you'd want to do the same with that app. I also keep a copy of hi-launcher on the dana because I use it in place of the default launcher, I prefer the ability to custom design a menu rather than using the dana's launcher which only allows a certain amount of categories and will not allow me to remove things like Wifi which I don't use which I can do in hi-launcher. Best of all hi-launcher doesn't scan /Palm/Launcher/ and thus won't slow down due to many files because it only scans its database of apps I put in my custom menu, and futhermore its menu pops up OVER my apps and allows me to switch between apps more quickly and can even keep a list of my recently used apps. I also keep weasel on my dana and all the libraries I have, Zlib, PalmResizeLibrary, Mathlib, etc. just in case something needs them. All my games and accessories I tend to keep and use off the memory card. This is another thing Hi-Launcher can do the Dana's launcher cant, it can put SD card AND Dana installed apps in the same menu, the Dana launcher organizes apps by where they're installed, and doesn't support sub menus.72 months ago(permalink)
Sadly I don't see any VFS code in the frobnitz source, so I guess it will only work with files on the dana or in /Palm/Launcher/ as previously stated. An app doesn't need to support VFS to be able to be run from the SD card because Palm OS simply copies it and its required DBs to the memory temporarily when you run it and tricks it into thinking it ran from the device. It only needs VFS support to be able to actually access the SD cards for data. This is not a major inconvenience just means you will have to manually copy games onto the Dana to play on frobnitz. All the more reason you'll need to get a memory card and learn to use UniCMD or Filez if you want to travel with a lot of frobnitz games, you may also want to keep backups of "Frobnitz Saves.pdb" and "Frobnitz Game In Progress.pdb" along with your games when you swap them out for other games. Otherwise your save games db could grow really large with saves from games not currently on your dana. This is a fine example of how it sucks when an app is not programmed properly. Lack of VFS code makes something backward compatible to Palm OS 1 or 2, but makes it a real pain in the butt if you have lots of data files for use with it and can't take advantage of the features in Palm OS 3 and 4. Maybe once I learn Palm programming a little better I can take a crack at updating this, I'd do it now with the little I've learned so far if it weren't for the fact that this is a pretty complex app, more than likely several source files are going to need substantial patches on numerous functions to make it compatible with the VFS features of Palm OS 4.1.2 on the Dana. There hasn't been active development on this in over 12 years, so I doubt the developers are still around and interested. Written by David Turnbull update for Dana by Patrick Salo, no email addresses shown anywhere I could see in the source. So, if someone wants to track them down and ask, more power to ya, or if anyone can take on the project, kudos, source code is at sourceforge.net/projects/frobnitz/files/Frobnitz%20Palm%2...72 months ago(permalink)
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