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Tapwave Closes its Doors

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the calling-it-quits dept.

ewhac writes "Tapwave, makers of the universally acclaimed Zodiac mobile gaming device/media player/PalmOS PDA formally announced on their Web site that, 'the Zodiac business was discontinued and service and support are no longer available as of July 25th 2005.' The Zodiac was a PalmOS 5.2 device with gaming and media features, including ATI graphics and Yamaha sound acceleration, proportional joystick, two SD slots, Bluetooth, 200MHz ARM CPU (Freescale i.MX1), and up to 128M of RAM. At the most recent Palm developer conference, Tapwave employees were showing Zodiacs running their own port of Linux 2.6.10, with ports of SDL, Python, PyGame, mpg123, and primitive power management. It is unknown what will become of this work."

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  1. But if the Zodiac is no more... by GuitarNeophyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the Zodiac is no more, then what do I say, if someone asks me what my sign is?

    *sits here, watching the following thread for the puns and fun answers*

    Luke
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    1. Re:But if the Zodiac is no more... by SilentShriek · · Score: 4, Funny

      then what do I say, if someone asks me what my sign is?

      "Will work for food"
  2. Re:I can see other possibilities by chudgoo · · Score: 2, Funny
    Palms as blade servers?!

    //Now I've heard everything

  3. N-Gage extends its dominance! by Humorously_Inept · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yet another victim, left unable to sustain itself in the vacuum of the N-Gage's wake, falls before the allmighty Nokian. The powerful N-Gage Arena community bellows a mightly laugh at the plight of the vastly inferior Tapwave. Said Jorma Ollila, "How could any device with a name like that ever hope to succeed? One can be engaged, but not tapwaved!"

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    ~Someday, I hope to be an aspiring author.
  4. Re:Tapwave? by NaDrew · · Score: 2, Funny
    Anyone know why they failed?

    I interviewed with them about a year ago. They didn't hire me.

    This explains why they failed.
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