Tapwave Zodiac (formerly Helix)

[Daitokuji]

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...ghlight=zodiac

A Google search reveals that it will be made available in retail in mid-winter 2003/2004 or spring 2004.

Ummm... Dumbass I didn't need to know there was another board for it, and when the release for it is. I want to know if i can find it somewhere other than Tapwave's online store.

Next time read and comprehend before you answer and the world will be a better place

[Shinobi128]

Ummm... Dumbass I didn't need to know there was another board for it, and when the release for it is. I want to know if i can find it somewhere other than Tapwave's online store.

Next time read and comprehend before you answer and the world will be a better place

[Blaine]

It would be, if the GameCom supported thousands of PalmOS applications and games, an MP3 player with better quality sound than an Ipaq, multimedia features that can support entire movie-sized videos, and what will almost surely be a good sized developement community where you'll soon be able to get Atari, NES, SNES, Genesis, and even GBA emulators, etc.

Oh, and it's got color, too.

Not thousands of PalmOS games! You mean I get to have my choice of hundreds of Tetris, Arkanoid and Snake clones written by guys working on thier computer sci degrees?

If you have a Palm, you have a need for a Palm. And the games are a hip bonus. Who exactly buys a Palm specifically for the games?

You want one of these as a PDA? I can see that. It's like the nGage, featurewise it's a cool cellphone. It pretty much sucks as a console, specifically price and support.

If I was really interested in the handheld emulator scene, I'd just get a GP32 and save a $100+.

So...by the current looks of it, with it's spectacular line-up of games, regardless of the machine's specs, it's going to get exactly as much use as my GameCom*. Hence, paint it, ship it, put it back in the closet.

*none

[kingoffighters]

I think this device has potential.

I do like the various features, but to be successful for the gaming audience, it needs more good games to be sure. It is alittle too much but as a PDA, that's not bad at all (think of the gaming feature as a bonus).

[Jeremy]

I've been looking forward to getting ahold of this thing since I first saw stuff on it months ago, the community for it seems pretty strong. www.zodiacgamer.com is a good site to go for info on it. There's another great site for it as well that I can't remember right now.

[Lhadatt]

Regardless, it has it's own software to convert mpegs, wmvs, and divx movies into it's native format, and apparently they have already put movie-length videos on it.

That's fine. It just means you cannot borrow a memory card (SD, compact flash, whatever) with Terminator 3 on it from a friend and expect it to run immediately when you put it in your Zodiac. You have to take it home, convert it into the bloatware Cinepak format, then reupload it to another memory card.

It's not that the Cinepak format is "native" to the Zodiac. That's just what Tapwave is bundling with the unit. You can run most any other Palm app on it, which includes other media format players.

Ummm... Dumbass I didn't need to know there was another board for it, and when the release for it is. I want to know if i can find it somewhere other than Tapwave's online store.

Next time read and comprehend before you answer and the world will be a better place

Follow your own advice, please.

The link I gave you was to another thread on this board about it. It is customary here at TNL to SEARCH FOR OLDER THREADS before starting a new one, so we don't have 28 different threads all saying the same thing. Got new info or a question that hasn't come up before? Resurrect the old thread -- the locals won't mind.

As to the info about the release I gave, I said that was for retail channel release (i.e. the date it gets into CompUSA), not release on Tapwave's site. "Direct from the manufacturer" does not equal "retail."

Now, kindly go back under your rock and play Yugioh on your cardboard Zodiac, as we all know you do because you can't buy one from Tapwave with your lame excuse for a credit card.

[Master]

Ummm... I'm missing the point

Don't worry about it this time, but now on use the search function. You can also search threads to see if what you have to say has already been said.

The search function is your friend.

[Daitokuji]

How come ppl think I'm a fucking newbie here? Just cuz I don't post 1000 times a day like other ppl who have nothing better to do? I've been on TNL for about lets see 5 years now. Now i think others shouldn't assume they friggin know all

That's fine. It just means you cannot borrow a memory card (SD, compact flash, whatever) with Terminator 3 on it from a friend and expect it to run immediately when you put it in your Zodiac. You have to take it home, convert it into the bloatware Cinepak format, then reupload it to another memory card.

It's not that the Cinepak format is "native" to the Zodiac. That's just what Tapwave is bundling with the unit. You can run most any other Palm app on it, which includes other media format players.


Follow your own advice, please.

The link I gave you was to another thread on this board about it. It is customary here at TNL to SEARCH FOR OLDER THREADS before starting a new one, so we don't have 28 different threads all saying the same thing. Got new info or a question that hasn't come up before? Resurrect the old thread -- the locals won't mind.

As to the info about the release I gave, I said that was for retail channel release (i.e. the date it gets into CompUSA), not release on Tapwave's site. "Direct from the manufacturer" does not equal "retail."

Now, kindly go back under your rock and play Yugioh on your cardboard Zodiac, as we all know you do because you can't buy one from Tapwave with your lame excuse for a credit card.

Hey dumbass no other post says what i've asked so you need to follow that advice

[Jeremy]

You could have easily searched the board for Zodiac threads, found one, and asked your question there.

[Daitokuji]

You could have easily searched the board for Zodiac threads, found one, and asked your question there.

That would have helped, know one looks at old ass threads. And being the fact that no one is helping now proves so. They are giving me useless information and getting bent out of shape that there is a 2 boards with 2 different topics. Have you even looked at what i asked and what was said in the orginal one? The first guy definately didn't that's why i think he needs to learn how to comprehend