Updates & Acquisitions

September 29, 2023

The cartridge - this is a Handspring Springboard Module, these tend to have hardware in them more often than software, like cameras, GPS, and the like.	It certainly looks like a PGA Tour game at a glance.	And look, a glow-in-the-dark Craig Stadler. (He is very difficult to photograph.)

In the mail yesterday is the new weirdest media format inducted into Golfshrine: a Handspring Visor "Springboard module" data cartridge. I don't remember anymore who actually brought this one to my attention, but my casual interest in the PDAs of the late 90s/early 2000s definitely sparked my interest in getting the one with a proprietary media format and a physical release of a golf game. (That's actually another one of my little collections - physical releases of PDA software. What a fascinating little flash in the pan that market was.) Anyway, mavica - a being of Similar Interests - informs me that this isn't even the only physical release of this specific golf game for this specific platform, as Z!OSOFT (yes, with the exclamation point) produced one on CD-ROM that contains a colorized version, and a port to Pocket PC. So that's going on the wishlist too I guess.

I also quietly added an SNES version of the original PGA Tour Golf to the Shrine after Mom bought it for me at a thrift mall last week. Love you, Mom. ;)