Backgammon Pro for Palm OSA Palm OS Treo, Tungsten software and freeware downloads

Download Macintosh format here.

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 including - Leather (Hi Resolution), Future, Brown, Black & White, Wood, Traditional
• 2 Fair Random Die Generators, you can enter the random seed to replay dice patterns over again or enter your own dice. You may also view the upcoming rolls. These generators are completely fair. The computer does not 'conveniently' get the dice it needs at critical moments of the game. The computer NEVER will look ahead at upcoming rolls. The computer will NOT receive more doubles than you.
• 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 4 different computer personalities. You can make an aggressive opponent, a defensive opponent, etc.
• IR game play - 2 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.