What Software? Which PDA?

[archerybrian]

Hi

The wife uses EScorePad on a Dell PDA bought on Ebay for about £50, and I use Bowbuddy on a Hp PDA (again from ebay for £55), which I also use as a sat nav. So I can use it to find the shoot and then use it to score.

You don't need to spend a fortune on a new whistle and bells PDA for either of the software as an older one will do.

The wife loves Escorepad and likes the simple touchpad buttons (colours and numbers) for the scores. Her only bug bear is that she can't transfer her scores from the PDA into her Excel spreadsheet (She has to do this manually)

I like the touchpad target on bowbuddy, but it can be a bit difficult with line cutters, you have to be sure that you have the right score. But I like the fact it gives you the centre of your group and you can make ajustments (Except when your groups are bigger than the boss!!!!!)

I tried bowbuddy for a member of our club who is disabled and cannot always walk up to the target. With the other archers using his PDA (Guess what £50 from Ebay. Noticing a pattern here) with Bowbuddy they can get his score and he can see where his groups are.

As usual with everthing in life it horses for courses. Both can be used in demo mode before you buy, so you can try both and see which suits you. All the PDAs we have run on Windows mobile 2003, I'm not sure whether these can be used on a Palm.

Hope this helps.

Brian

[Fugue]

Bowbuddy and HTC Diamond, (probably the best phone available anywhere!)

I took it down the the GNAM, but decided that the additional analysis of the impact of 20 - 30 mph winds on my groups was unneccessary!

[Magpie56]

Anyone know of anysoftware for these phones or do get my HP4700 repaired/replaced ?

[Saphire]

I use archery suite on a cheap palm, I have been using it for the last 4 years. There is different methods of scoring, a target face which can be blown up and large square boxes in the correct colors so you don't need to worry about reflections when it sunny.

[chemistry]

Originally Posted by Fugue

Bowbuddy and HTC Diamond, (probably the best phone available anywhere!)

I took it down the the GNAM, but decided that the additional analysis of the impact of 20 - 30 mph winds on my groups was unneccessary!

I've just got one of these phones (HTC Touch Diamond) and have to say I don't rate it. It's slow and the battery life sucks! I get a day, day and a half's use at most. Until I get the longer life battery, I couldn't recommend it to anyone.

Still, I'd never thought of running archery software on it....maybe that will be the killer app that will make all the difference!

[Murray]

I've been a TargetPlot Software, Archery & Volleyball performance analysis on the Palm. user for many years. Currently running it on a Palm z22. Works a treat.

I tried one of the Windows packages on my Dell X51V (think it was bowbuddy?) but it was too painfully slow.

More software suites information here:
Softwares For Archery & Scoring

[Black Arrow]

I've been using Andy's Escorepad for a couple of years now (just upgraded to V4) running on a Compaq Ipaq.

It runs fine and the new version includes a good timeline handicap analysis and the ability to host up to six archers at a time which is handy at those shoots where they take away the score slips.

[sparky steve]

i used escorepad on my HTC TytnII (Kaiser) works great and free updates from escorepad, so running latest version.

[grimsby archer]

Imagine a brave new world where we all had wireless enabled palmtops linked across a wireless network to a server running leader boards.
We could all get end by end feedback on how we are doing compared to our neighbours on a full leaderboard.
Having spent all last weekend running the leaderboard for the EMAS DFS, it was exciting watching the little comps as people fought their way up (and down) the ladder. Far more exciting than standing and shooting in an anonymous insular field. No wonder archery is boring.

Imagine a F1 race or tennis match where you can only see one competitor and dont get to know whats happening till after the event. (ok, in F1 terms, thats rallying when you just see car after car go by and dont get to know what happened)

[dfunct]

Funny you should say that - when I finish the piece of software I'm working on for BUTC it should be possible to do just that...