Vindigo from the card?

[Pride Of Lions]

Howdy all!

Is there a program that will let me use Vindigo from the expansion card? I'm thinking of something similar to how "Avantage" let's one use "Avantgo" from their card. (For those lucky Avantgo users who aren't running anything above Palm OS 2.6.3 and Mac OS 9.)

Thanks,
POL9A

[Toysoft]

We have one. Its called myDigo. Its just like Avantage. Visit our site at www.toysoft.ca

regards

[Pride Of Lions]

Thanks for your suggestion. I downloaded your trial from your website (last modified Dec. 3, 2001) after much trepidation because it seemed so much more than I was thinking of. I don't actually use "Avantage", because since "AvantGo" stopped supporting anything above Palm Desktop 2.6.3 and Mac OS 9, I've been left out of the loop. Having said that, I didn't know what I was getting into when I went to your site and read all the stipulations. Here goes...

I worried when the site said that it only supported this launcher and that one and if I used any other, my HotSync would definitely crash and burn and gurgle as it's last breath escapes. My Palm would hold up those fingers like in the cartoons when someone is drowning. "1" blub blub blub "2" blub... My potential new launcher, "Launcher X", wasn't on the list, but I just guessed that it might be do-able since "Launcher III" was supported (setting precedent for supporting the "Launcher" family) and just no one had updated the site yet. In, like, a year.

Anyway, so I'm reading down the list and I get to the part that states I have to enable myDigo to open Vindigo from the card which could take forever because all that jazz has to be copied to the card in order to launch and a 500K channel typically takes 20 seconds to load and I have 2.5MB of channels, soooo...Then I got to thinking "The Hell! What's the point of having all those MB's on the card if it's just going to copy all that jazz over to the handheld's RAM when my whole point is to get those MB's on the card and open up my handheld's RAM?"

Also, that's more steps for me to go through to open Vindigo. I have to open myDigo, push the big "V", and wait an hour for all that jazz to copy back to the handheld's RAM when I was kinda hoping that the "Vindigo" app would stay on my launcher and I just open it from there.

Anyway, so I'm reading down the list and I get to the part that states I have to tap whether or not I want to sync Vindigo on the handheld after starting the HotSync process. I thought that would kinda suck since I press the HotSync button and walk away to live my life. I hated the idea that I would have to stare at the handheld screen until prompted to press the secret button (which would require having to remove the little plastic screen thingy and blah blah blah).

Anyway, so after reading down the list, I decide to download the trial anyways. I figured that since the site was probably not up to date, it probably didn't take into account the new processor for speed-type stuff and probably supported "Launcher X" and all that.

So onto what I think.

After following all the directions to the letter. Including the misspelled words.

myDigo doesn't make my Palm smoke and sizzle. It supports my "Launcher X" demo.

I was right. It does suck to have to open two app's to open one. Not counting the myDigo info window at the start of the program that I have to hit "OK" to get out of. But, due to the wonders of the Palm TT's ARM processor 2.0 or something, the program didn't seem to take too long to open Vindigo. The first time was a little long, but the subsequent times seemed reasonable.

I HotSync'ed and it didn't give me that window that I have to allow Vindigo to sync or not. That was pretty cool.

I checked out the handheld's memory and, lo and behold, the Vindigo app still registered as 2.5MB's against the handheld's RAM, even thoughthe app itself wasn't on the handheld. Ummm...uh-huh. Am I supposed to move myDigo to the card, too? Even after selecting all the Vindigo stuff and moving it to the card using the myDigo card mover-thingy?

I'm not certain that I'll use myDigo. I love y'all for making the software and I really appreciate you for suggesting it to me, but thus far the not-so-cool stuff kinda outweighs the kinda-cool stuff. I don't know the programming side of these things, being a not-understanding-the-programming-side-of-these-things kinda guy, but I bet y'all could come up with something that is more user friendly and addressing my specific wants and needs.

Thanks anyway and I hope it works for other people, but uh...yeah.

Cheers,
POL9A