Palmgear.com, Gone!

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Kristopher

http://www.palmgear.com has moved!!????

It seems that they've joined with PocketGear.

I don't like it.

My review on the Bike or Die! product page is not listed.
Either the search feature is bugged, or my Bike levels are not listed there. (If you search for "Bike" in the games section, the 10th result will be a "Screen Prefs" utility.)

"While we have eliminated much of the outdated and freeware listings, actively selling current titles have been migrated to the new PocketGear."
As if extorting 40% of sales wasn't enough, now they don't even feel obligated to offer freeware.

I was going to upload my latest levels to Palmgear as I have done in the past, but I get the impression such freeware will get lost in this commercial site.

I suppose if I had read their last email more carefully, I could have seen this coming in October...

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yeah... they have wasted their biggest advantages: famous palmgear brand (the first and the best palm software site in the early palm history), dozens of links no longer link to the products, no archival reviews, no freeware (at least for now)... and the standard palm-sized screenshots look ugly in 240x240

the good old palmgear will live in our memories forever... and in the

internet archive

Mr.pickle.

wierd

I evan got a few games from palmgear

(Most of my games are from astraware or clickgamer)

Mr.pickle.

I searched in all categorys for bike or die and it came up with of cource bike or die,and then "bike or die level pack 1"does that not already come with the game????and they were charging 2.99 for it how weird is that?

Kristopher

That is one of the oldest levelpacks. Since there were not very many levels when it was made, the author took the liberty to charge for it.
And for that reason, it was moved from Palmgear, and my levels were not.

My products totaled 5000-8000 downloads, and now the hit counters are gone.
Maybe I'll try to upload everything to Clickgamer.

Spence

dang...they had a crazy amount of software too... i used it through palmsource.com which is now access-company. i believe thats where i first found Bod. it looks like pocketgear has almost no software compared to palmgear...not even any freeware or shareware...sad

Kristopher

Too bad; I got my Palm Simulator from Palmsource.
I think I'll upload that sometime so others can use it.

Spence

really? ive been looking for one... is it the one that only works with palm os 4?

Erich

My 3 freeware products which were listed aren't there anymore... The old links are not redirected at all... You'll have to do a new search for the program on the pocketgear site! This is not only bad for us, but also for Palm! The site which had most of the software easily available, is just gone! They probably just didn't make enough money from palm software anymore, could that be?

Shane

I was just looking around PocketGear and can't find the Bike or Die product page. Well, except for linking through my account / past purchases / old PalmGear 'locker' and viewing the archived site.

Shane

Found it using Google; it appears that the search engine on the site doesn?t work! And now it tells me to continue browsing because BoD is incompatible with my Treo 680

Kristopher

Please tell me if you find a good complaint forum.

Shane

Palmgear.com is back!
at least it looks like Palmgear

Do you think they missed us?

Spence

WOOOT! And it looks like they have all that apps that disappeared before.

Mr.pickle.

Kristopher

Now their site looks really old.

PiNerd

Regarding a Palm simulator, I have a PalmOS 6 one. It runs most things well, and you can run BoD in any resolution you want by editing the .ini file that determines the system values.

I put it on my website so it can be found at

http://www.eliotball.com/files

Xuzz

I have the OS 6 one too, but I found it was slower and as then less useful for BoD since it is running in Parallels desktop for me

Neca

Is there a way to get BoD 2 to work in the simulator?