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Hi all, Firstly, I would like to sorry if I have broken the ethics in terms of the game. My question is..... Do simple games (basic board games) learnt from a young age help out in the future? :)

Hi hrothgar... I can understand your concerns about the usage of the software on such a device, but I think this would not be a problem if you had to register using the BBO software on PC first. Most of us who use BBO would understand that you should not login and play one hand then bugger off again..... but this is not a issue with the device being used but the end user themselves......It happens at the moment all the time with the current set-up anyhow (I hate playing in the Main Room!!!) You could also have the 'system' point out such users are using a portable device as well, this would give others the choice of letting play or not. :)

Hi all, Thanks for the input, been really interesting.... I agree with the points being made. I have purely selfish motives, and just wondered what you guys thought :) (I have also emailed Sun Bingo to see if their game would work in the DS Browser!!! LOL - I would like to point out this was on behalf of my sister and not me!!!) Fred - would $50 persuade you to write a portable version????? hehehehe Joking aside, thanks for your opinions. I played 'Hearts' on-line via the held held console and was great. Anyone here on the forums use a DS? The 42 classic games cart is brilliant..... but the Bridge game is poor on it (you cannot see the bidding history, its not laid out very well and the only scoring system you can play is Chicago) btw I think DS has a good input keyboard style, you can open the keyboard and use it on the bottom screen with the touch screen and type into the top screen. Ok its a bit slower than a normal keyboard, but works well with other wifi games. I look forward to seeing the 'new' way of using BBO. Thanks for your time, I really appreciate it. Tony

Hi Fred, I love what you have done for the game of bridge. If it was not for your software, I would still be playing 'bad' bridge on sites like pogo or MSN. I now play regularly on-line in tournaments, league team matches and it has given me the confidence to go to the local bridge club. Thanks a million. On the point of porting the software, I see two ways to go. You could let others port the software, similar to an Open Source project. You would still make money from the pay tourneys and also money bridge. Plus it would attract more users to the system. The other way would to be to produce the software and charge a fee (either one off or subscription) for use on other OS. I would happily pay for the software if I could play remotely on a portable system, ie Pocket PC, PSP, DS or any other portable device. (Not sure if I would pay a subscription tho....) Anyhow, this is just a thread for discussing such ideas, please don't think I'm trying to 'force' the issue. It would be interesting to see what can and cannot be done :)

Hi all, I've been investigating this idea (I said it as a joke initially) and there are apparently a lot of 'homebrew' programmers out there writing software for the DS, ranging from games to email clients and browsers (even Linux has been ported to the console!!!) So in theory this is totally possible (another proof is that i have 42 all time classic games on the DS and you can play contract bridge on it over the internet with other players..... but it is not very well set out) I reckon if Fred is kind enough to either hand over his code to one of these homebrewers or just to give the details of the network protocols used in the software (someone can then reverse engineer the software) Just a thought :)

Oh well, just a thought...... (Would be great to have a team match while sitting in MacDonalds :huh: )

Hi all, Just thinking, i'm gonna buy one of these gizmos for myself for xmas, just wondering if anyone has thought of coding a DS version of BBO? I'm sure it would work great with the Wi-Fi connection it can handle and the touch screen Just a thought :)