Palm and Treo Hacks

Boost Your Online Gaming

A Palm device can be a useful tool when playing online games on your desktop machine.

Your Palm device can store information for use in online games. You can also use a Palm device to look up information on the Web without disturbing your game.

Storing Information in MemoPad

You can store all sorts of useful information in MemoPad for online gaming, as you can see in Figure 3-28. You can store spell lists and locations of quest items. You can store descriptions of skills. You can record which loot items are useful in trade skills and which are junk. You can track the skill levels of your characters in tradeskills. You can also use MemoPad to hold future specs for your character—do you go heavy in bow or heavy in melee?

Figure 3-28. Sojourner Master Level abilities for Dark Age of Camelot

Track Quests with the To Do List

Use the To Do List to track quests, if the online game doesn’t have a good quest manager. You can create a category for each multi-step quest or use priorities to track substeps of quests within a single category. This can be very useful if a quest has a number of subquests that can be completed in any order.

Look Up Information on the Web

If your Palm device is connected to the Internet [Hack #34] , then you can surf the Web [Hack #37] to find information on your game. Most games have a few top quality sites that provide maps, quest info, bestiaries, ...