digital press guide on a palm

[shvnsth]

is there any way to put the digital press guide on a palm, besides typing in everything? i think it would be awesome for you to have to entire guide with you as you shop, but i know that everyone has thought of this, i was just wondering if anyone has? or does anyone have the guide in a text file, that you could just save to a palm or pocket pc and then search?

[Flack]

Well, there are a couple of ways to do it.

The first way was to have downloaded the old files, which were stored in PDF format. If your Palm can read PDF files, bingo, you now have a portable, electronic version. I did this for a while, but unfortunately the search feature doesn't work so well, and the PDF files aren't formatted that well for Palm viewing.

The second way is to use the online rarity guide. How I did it was, for example, view all Atari 2600 games. Highlight each page of games, copy, paste into Excel. Repeat until you have the entire list into Excel. When done, clean up any blank rows or any additional information. When done with that, highlight the entire thing, cut, and paste into Notepad. That will clense all the formatting stuff (colored cells, etc). Close the Excel spreadsheet you were working in, and open a new one. Highlight everything in the Notepad document, cut, and paste it back into Excel. Now you have a nice looking document. For my Palm Pilot, I deleted all but the essential information (cart, company, rarity). I then added a fourth field to track whether or not I own it, and how many copies I own. Using Documents to Go, you can continually sync the files back and forth. Very convenient. The only problem with this method is you don't get the price information, only the rarity ratings.

If you don't have Excel or Documents to Go, you could repeat the above method but then simply stick the text into MemoPad or whatever, but you may have to break it up into multiple documents.

That's what I've figured out so far. If anyone has any better ideas, I'd love to hear what everybody else is doing. I love my DP guides but too many times I end up not having them when I find myself shopping.

[Cauterize]

I did what flack said in the first way. Acrobat reader for PPC is free and works a treat, even on my old skool PPC!
And the guides are really small file size too!

[Postermen]

Does anyone have a copy of the pdf files I can have? I think I still have NES, N64, and Colecovision, but I would like the others (mainly 2600)



Matt

[Kroogah]

Does anyone have a copy of the pdf files I can have? I think I still have NES, N64, and Colecovision, but I would like the others (mainly 2600)



Matt

You can find 'em at www.digitpress.com/lists

[spoon]

This is great. i was just goign to start a topic like this one. I recently got a Sony Clie PEG-SJ22 Palm OS 4.1.

I want to be able to have my lists on the go.

[Sph1nx]

Snazy palm spoon. :D

[RedHerring]

I was also thinking about finding some sort of game database app, ebay aide and way to have the digital press guide on my iPaq. I'd be more willing to pay for an ebook of digital guide than the actual thing because of the high shipping fees and the ability i'd gain of viewing it on the go.

[yuppicide]

I thought of this awhile ago. If it were an application for sale.. already made up and you could sync it to your PC and yupdate every so often.. I'd definately buy it. Like an official Digital Press item.

[spoon]

Snazy palm spoon. :D

Yes it is. Must have came from a Snazzy person!

Thanks Sph1nx

yeah, a program you could pay for and sync with your comp to keep complete and updated lists would be great!

[digitalpress]

Does anyone have a copy of the pdf files I can have? I think I still have NES, N64, and Colecovision, but I would like the others (mainly 2600)



Matt

You can find 'em at www.digitpress.com/lists

FYI these are VERY old.

I do intend to have the basic lists available in CSV format so you can easily store them in Notepad or Excel (or any spreadsheet program for that matter) but I've just got too many other things to do first! I need clones, pronto!