The Tapwave Zodiac is a mobile entertainment console and personal digital assistant. Tapwave announced the system in May 2003 and began shipping in October of that same year. The Zodiac was designed to be a high-performance mobile entertainment system centered on video games, music, photos, and video for 18- to 34-year-old gamers and technology enthusiasts. By running an enhanced version of the Palm Operating System (5.2T), Zodiac also provided access to Palm's personal information management software and many other applications from the Palm developer community. The company was based in Mountain View, California.[1]
The Zodiac console was initially available in two models, Zodiac 1 (32MB) for US$299, and Zodiac 2 (128MB) for US$399. Some of the game titles for the product included Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (Activision); Mototrax (Activision); SpyHunter (Midway); Madden NFL 2005 (EA/MDM); Doom II (id Software); Golden Axe III and Altered Beast (Sega); Warfare Incorporated (Handmark); and Duke Nukem Mobile (3D Realms/MachineWorks).
Due to insufficient funding and strong competitive pressure from the PlayStation Portable (PSP) from Sony (which was pre-announced at E3 on May 16, 2003, and shipped in North America on March 24, 2005), and the DS from Nintendo (released on November 21, 2004), Tapwave sold the company to an undisclosed multibillion-dollar corporation in Asia in July 2005.
The Zodiac console garnered strong product reviews and received many industry awards including Popular Science's Best of What's New Award, Stuff magazine's Top 10 Gadgets of the Year, Wired magazine's Fetish Award, CNET's Editor's Choice Award, PC World's 2004 Next Gear Innovations Award; PC Magazine's 1st Place Last Gadget Standing at CES; Handheld Computing magazine's Most Innovative PDA of 2003; Time magazine Best Gear of 2003; and the Business Week Best Products of 2003.
The TapwaveZodiac is a mobile entertainment console and personal digital assistant. Tapwave announced the system in May 2003 and began shipping in October...
two slots for game cartridges, which would not happen again until the TapwaveZodiac, the DS and DS Lite, and could be connected to a 14.4 kbit/s modem....
games ever made. Doom II was ported to the Game Boy Advance in 2002, TapwaveZodiac in 2004, on Xbox Live Arcade in 2010, and on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation...
ported to GameCube, Xbox, Game Boy Advance, Microsoft Windows, OS X, and TapwaveZodiac. In the game, the player drives the G-6155 Interceptor, an advanced...
This is a first-person shooter that was released in May 2004 for the TapwaveZodiac, which re-uses many sprites (e.g. enemies and HUD weapons) that were...
dedicated video chip, and dual SD card slots. TapwaveZodiac 1 -- Palm OS 5.2T & MP3 player TapwaveZodiac 2 -- Palm OS 5.2T & MP3 player Two models (candybar...
studio Spiffcode and published by Handmark for Palm OS, Pocket PC, PDAs, TapwaveZodiac and iOS. In 2014 the game became open-sourced and freeware under the...
redesign in 2004 and was renamed the N-Gage QD. A second handheld, the Zodiac from Tapwave, was released in 2004; based on the Palm OS, it offered specialized...
June 16, 2024. Kohler, Chris (October 27, 2004). "Madden 2005 comes to Zodiac". GameSpot. Retrieved June 16, 2024. "EA announces Madden 2005 soundtrack"...
GameCube console in 2004, which was later canceled, and TapwaveZodiac, which was called off when Tapwave went out of business. A demo version of the game is...
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hardware accelerated playback for ATI and Intel 2700G mobiles, such as the TapwaveZodiac and Dell Axim X50v/X51V. Development of the free version of the software...
produced by FatHammer, as used on the Symbian platform, and on the TapwaveZodiac. In 2006, ATI acquired BitBoys, adding additional talent and experience...
(MachineWorks Northwest; BREW) Duke Nukem Mobile (3D) (MachineWorks Northwest; TapwaveZodiac) Stargate SG-1 (MachineWorks Northwest; BREW) Duke Nukem Mobile 3D (MachineWorks...
with the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS; other systems including the TapwaveZodiac as well as Smartphones and the vast majority of PDAs have also included...
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the PS Vita. Handheld computer platforms supported include Palm OS TapwaveZodiac, Symbian (UIQ platform, Nokia 60, 80, and Nokia 7710 90 phone series)...
cell phones and a different 2005 game for the TapwaveZodiac, both by Machineworks Northwest. The Zodiac game was ported to mobile phones in mid-2005 as...
available for Windows computers late in 2008. It was also ported to the TapwaveZodiac handheld in 2006. It has been also ported to PlayStation 2 as a homebrew...
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commercial failure. 2003 3,000,000 GameKing Series of low end handhelds 2003 TapwaveZodiac Combination handheld game console and PDA. Features a touchscreen with...
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