Here on the eve of the launch of the Palm Pre, we are pleased to announce that all four of our Palm OS programs have been Classic Certified by MotionApps. MyBible 5, DailyReader, Memorize! and CountEm are all Classic Certified. The Classic Certified Logo serves as a seal of approval letting you know that you can use the Classic Certified application with confidence.
While we have worked with MotionApps to obtain Classic Certification, we have not yet seen a Pre or experienced our products running in Classic. While we expect most of our product features to “just work”, there may be some differences or issues.
For instance, since the Pre does not use the familiar Palm HotSync, installation to the Pre for use within Classic is different. Likewise, data synchronization with PocketBible for Windows may not be supported or may require some extra effort on your part.
Since these products are designed for the Palm Operating System, some issues related to using our products under Classic may not be addressed.
In order to support installation to the Pre, we are now providing our Palm OS products in “.zip” format, in addition to the Windows Setup program and “.sit” formats that we have previously supplied. The .zip format allows anyone easy access to the Palm “.prc” and “.pdb” files that are installed to a device. (In fact, Windows power users may prefer the zip file and manual install when installing to an older Palm OS device as well.)
MyBible, DailyReader, Memorize! and CountEm were all updated earlier this afternoon to include the Classic certification. If you’ve previously downloaded our programs, you may want to download the updated versions made available earlier this afternoon.
Over the next few days, we’ll be updating our Web site with additional information on using and installing our programs with the Pre. Watch www.laridian.com/palm for details. And who knows, we may write another blog article or two.
Registered owners of MyBible 5, DailyReader, Memorize! and CountEm may download the updated, Classic Certified versions without cost. If you enjoy these programs in Classic, please consider buying additional Laridian content to use on your Pre.
I have used MyBible on several Treos over the years. I have held off commenting while waiting anxiously for a WebOS version of the software. In the meantime, I have found that I don’t like Classic for MyBible — or anything else. (I spent much more money on games than I ever spent on MyBible so I have an incentive to like it; I just don’t.) So, now I’m chiming in: Whatever you’re doing to produce a WebOS version of MyBible, you should not be comforted by the fact that your customers have Classic to tide them over.
I LOVE all my Laridian software on my Palm Treo. I finally got my new Palm Pre Plus, very excited to have the update for Palm. Very disappointed in Motion Apps Classic as a go-between. It seems to cause my Pre to run slower and hang up, and I was unable to download any of my Laridian files. I will have to carry my old Palm just to have my Bible! PLEASE, I would spend much more to update my new Palm with the same versions of software as are on my old one…if they were only available!!!! I’ll wait…(praying for patience!)!
I finally move MyBible to my laptop to get the full functionality of the software. The program components did not really interact on the Palm platform in the first place (you can’t see the NIV notes or make notes and bookmarks using the Daily Reader) and using the program in Classic was just worse. I’m sorry that we are now a year out from the release of the Pre and we don’t have any MyBible software native to webOS. I still love the software, I just wish I could use it on my Pre+.
No discussion here since my post in August. It appears that Classic will not work on any of our webOS phones with the upgrade to webOS 2. I am still hoping that there will be a solution for us before the release of webOS 2.
Click on the “Palm Pre” category in the list on the left to see more recent information about the status of this project. This particular post is rather old.
Thank you. I have been using PocketBible on my new iPod and I love it.