Supported hardware

Supported hardware

Basically, PocketGrandmaster runs on almost all Windows Pocket PCs (Windows Mobile 5.0 ... Windows CE 3.0) which have a touchscreen and you will very likely want to download the file PocketGrandmaster_StrongARM.exe.
To make sure PocketGrandmaster runs on your device, just install the trial version, before ordering a registration key. If your Pocket PC is some years old, it might use a MIPS- or SH3-processor, in which case you might need the MIPS- or SH3-version of PocketGrandmaster.
The list below shows some devices on which PocketGrandmaster was successfully tested. If your device is not on the list, just download the free trial version and give it a try!

StrongARM / XScale
- Acer (N20, ..., n50, n311), Amigo 600c, AnexTEK SP-230, Asus (MyPal, Pxyz), Audiovox Maestro PDA1032
- Cassiopeia E-200
- Dell Axim X5, X30, x51v, ...
- Dopod (6xy, 8xy, CHT), E-TEN, Fujitsu Siemens Pocket LOOX
- HP Jornada 567, 568
- HTC (Pxyz, ...), I-Mate
- iPAQ 2015c, 3150, 3160, 3630, 3660, 3835, 3850, 3870, 3950, 3970 (XScale)
- iPAQ H1910, 1930, 1940, 1945, 2210, 2215, 4150, 4155, 4350, 4355, 5100, 5450, 5455, 5500, 5555
- Intermec, Medion, MiTAC Mio, NEC MobilePro P300, O2 XDA, Orange SPV, Qtek
- Samsung (i700, SCH, ..), Symbol
- T-Mobile (MDA, Phone Edition)
- Toshiba 2032, E310, E330/E335, E350, E550/570, E740/750, Genio-e
- ViewSonic Pocket PC V35/V36/V37
- Zayo

MIPS
- Cassiopeia EM 500, E-115G, E-125G, E-125
- Palmax PD-131 - PocketGrandmaster ran but with rare instabilities
- Aero 1520, 1550, 2150 - PocketGrandmaster ran but with infrequent instabilities

SH3
- HP Jornada 540, 545, 547

Currently, PocketGrandmaster does not work well on square screen-devices (the info-line below the board is not visible, will be fixed with the next version) or on devices with a resolution different from 240x320, 480x640, 320x240, 640x480 (e.g. Jornada 720).

Some users have reported, that the additional chess engine SOS does not run on MIPS (Cassiopeia EM-500, E-115G) and that Ruffian often crashes on most MIPS-devices.

PocketGrandmaster does not support the new USB-version of the DGT electronic chessboard, but it may be possible to connect it, using this description. We can't test the (serial) board with all kinds of Pocket PCs, but we know it works with iPAQ 3630/3660, Jornada 565/568, Pocket Loox and maybe others. Problems have been reported for the Dell Axim X5 and iPAQ 3950. iPAQ 2215 seems to work with a "Gomadic HP Compaq iPaq 2210 / 2215 Serial Adapter Cable with Power Jack", see here.

Please let us know if you tested PocketGrandmaster on any device which is not yet on the list, or if you got different results.

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