A simple program that handled OS <5 hacks perfectly. Ran without flaws on my Visor Edge and m105. I'd comment on using it with my Tungsten E, but PalmSource doesn't like the idea of Hacks being used with OS 5. Really kinda sad, but still.

Buried deep in the readme file is the only place you'll find that X-Master doesn't (and apparently will never) work with an OS5 device.

Small, smart, easy to use and it's free. A quite perfect tool for pre PalmOS 5 devices. I'm using it without any problems since 2002 on several Sony PDA's I owned (SL-10, T625, T665).

It is a great peice of software, I can't believe it is freeware. A round of applaus to linkiesoft. Top app

This is, BY FAR, the best hack manager out there. It works better than everything else! Some competitors mekes you pay twenty dollars more for a slow hack manager with only a few more unnecessary features. Another works great, but you can't sort the hacks alphabetically or beam, and I have not been able to re-activete it after a soft reset. YAHM has a terrible layout, and, even though it was created to be more stable than other hack managers, it caused THREE HARD RESETS on my palm!!! The other is stripped of features, has a unfrendly interface on color devices, and it makes you pay $5.00 to register (and it used to be $8.00!) X-Master is simply the ONLY hack manager out there that anyone in their right mind would use. Some have both caused hard resets on my palm, so they are out of the question. The only problem I have with X-Master is that it freezes whenever I tried to reactiveate after a soft reset by clicking the box, or when I tried to switch to a diffrent set. This happened on all of the hack-managers I tried with sets, but X-Master comes with X-Master Light, which doesn't have sets!!! This is a tries and true hack manager, and I will NEVER use anytging else.

Well i loved this program when i had a palm m125 it worked great and flawlesly however i recently upgraded 2 a sony clie TJ-35 wich has palm 5.0 wich it doesnt support its really 2 bad cause i liked this program a lot so if u have a palm with under 5.0 i highly recomend it

I've used hackmaster, evplugbase, and x-master. Although I like the layout of evplugbase better, x-master worked flawlessly after switching from a Palm IIIxe to a Handspring Visor. Also, if you're having a problem with x-master, it might just be one of your hacks. I learned the hard way that not application works after switching from one PDA to the next.

I just purchased a Palm M515. Hackmaster (that I registered and owned) would not display properly. I switched to X-Master. It works great!

Very nice solution to Hackmaster. Freeware. Works the Same. Also to those users that have problems with hotsyncing and XMaster. Just goto xmaster pref. and choice turn off during hotsync. I had the same problem as a past reviewer, but that fixed it.

A good alternative to Hackmaster. Very stable and reliable. A free software which is superior to most "comercial" palmsoft

Ooops. I wrote a review saying that X-Master was crashing my system. NOT TRUE!!! It was a third-party hack. Other than that one problem - again, not X-Master! - I've never had a day of trouble. Can't recommend it highly enough!

Great program until v1.5. Ever since I installed it, I (periodically) get a "MemoryMgr.c, Line:4450, Invalid chunk ptr" error and reset on Hotsync. I'm going to track down v1.4 and reinstall it. Never had this problem with the older version. Hopefully v1.6 will correct this problem.

After installing XMaster, I found that my battery would be drained after just a short time of use on my M515. Also, had problems during the HotSync function, once I had HotSync my PDA would be frozen and not move without performing a soft reset. After I did that several times, my unit would not fuction at all. I ended up doing a hard reset and deleted the XMaster out of my backup files, performed a second HotSync and now my unit works fine.

I want to say something to Ed. PadLock Plus is a pretty old program, released when there was only HackMaster as a Hack manager. The program, internally, expects the Hack manager to be HackMaster. It means that it was designed to perform a part of its function by interacting with HackMaster, even using the name "HackMaster" explicitly. Therefore, no Hack manager other than HackMaster can run PadLock Plus. If PadLockPlus is so important for you, Ed, stick with HackMaster. However, it is unfair to blame this program for the fact that it is not satisfying a condition which it is impossible to satisfy. Okay? Okay. Let me return to the issue of X-master's quality itself. IMHO, I think that TealMaster is a better implementation with more functions. However, 1) X-Master is free, and 2) it is much smaller. I was a registered user of TealMaster, but I change to X-Master because I could not move Teal Master into Flash Rom. However, I still think that if only functions and stability are concerned, TealMaster is the best choice.

I've not had any of the problems listed by other reviewers with 1.5. Some features of Padlock Plus didn't work for me on 1.4, but are now mostly OK with 1.5.

1.4.1 worked fine on my Clie T415, when I installed 1.5, it caused a fatal error and froze the screen. My Clie wouldn't even come back up w/ a soft reset. I had to end up doing a hard reset and loose everything. Thank goodness, I had just sync'ed before this, so I was able to recover my data. Anycase, 5 stars for 1.4.1, and 1 star for 1.5, hence the 3 star rating. Gonna try it on my NR70 next...

I used X-Master for a long time with no problems an would have given it a five star rating. Unfortunately, like a previous reviewer, recently I had a problem with my Palm (m515) battery being drained and my Palm not holding a charge and I've now switched to TealMaster. If X-Master works for you then go for it but if you do start having battery problems then remove this application and see if it was the cause.

My PadLock Plus hack did not work properly with this app. Back to Hackmaster which worked fine!

It just drained my batteries big time and no date or other alarms would show. it started and shut down several times instead. De installed and back to basics. i am a long time Palm III user and so do not believe it was user error..back to Hackmaster which worked fine!

Danke fí²¿í°¤ieses Programm. Nach den jahrelangen Unzul䮧lichkeiten von Hackmaster eine wahre Erlíº¿íµ®g. Genial ist vor allem dass man verschiedene Sets von Hacks anlegen kann. Auch die Reihenfolge der Hacks wird gespeichert. Hilfreich da z.B. EVedit immer als letzes aktiviert werden muss. Gut auch dass man einstellen kann dass sich die Hacks bei einem Reset automatisch wieder herstellen.

There is nothing negative I can say about this product. It does exactly what it say, it works flawlessly, and it's free! I've used it on a Visor Platinum and now a Sony Clie 610C with no problems ever.

If you need a hack manager, quit looking. X-master does it for free. Download it, install it, and you will regret it not. I've used it for a year and am totally pleased. Does all it says it does. Afterburner should be the first hack you install.

Great product! Installation was a breeze. Nice interface, all my hack extensions work correctly on Palm OS 4.0. Benchmark test is same as with HackMaster. Thank you for this Free superb product

A really, really stable hack manager. Good resources for managing conflicts.

Not sure what the gain is here else then having a nicer GUI. Did notice though a slight performance drop using Benchmark 2.0, used to report 203% on my m505 now reports 200% ???

gorgeous. i have a pilot m105 (yes, im a cheapie) and x-master has been flawless. my hacks work beautifully, and ive never had any crashes, conflicts with other programs, or any other problems at all. and it's FREE!!!!! :) i am happy.

I couldn't get it to work with Padlock Plus. The timed lock didn't work. That was enough to send me back to hackmaster. The other features are good.

Agree that it looks like a great program. I was not able to have it work with padlockplus correctly ... though.

This program is great! Hackmaster worked fine until I started overclocking to 45mhz or so on my IIIxe. It would lock up everytime I wanted to configure one of my many hacks. Once I installed xmaster, I had no problems. And it even uninstalled hackmaster itself to prevent a conflict. Like many have said, was you use xmaster, you will never go back to hackmaster!

This is superb - I have not been able to crash my Palm Vx - even when I overclock it ridiculously high. The only change that I have made is that I have replaced HackMaster v0.91 with X-Master v1.3. Much nicer interface than HackMaster and much, much more stable.

Hacks are great except for all the crashes. X-master has made my Vx nearly crash free. If you are currently using Hackmaster try this and you'll never go back. If you've hesitated about installing hacks because of the crash-prone reputation, X-master is what you've been waiting for.

Change in my initial review. Originally, X-Master crashed my Visor Deluxe, but the latest revs have fixed any issues. Works wonderfully. Makes Hackmaster obsolete (sorry).

At long last. I no longer have to disable all my hacks when I want to open FlashPro. Ahh, bliss.

I use fonthack with my tabs in "Launch 'em" so I can fit whole words in rather than shorter ones like "utiliti...". Suddenly, for no reason I can't have fonthack running on hackmaster as it crashes my system when I press address and to-do buttons. With X-Master I am crash free. Fantastic!

Ohmigod! This is such an excellent piece of software! At last, someone updates Hackmaster and better yet, REALLY improves it and distributes it FOR FREE !!! Hackmaster is dead... Long live X-Master !!!

Works great and is free. No problems on my Palm IIIxe. As an added benefit I found that it incorporates features of some of my hacks so that I could delete them. It even lets you know at the time you are adding a hack that X-master already has that feature built-in. Thanks!

Great Program. Works Beautifully on my PalmIIIc with no problems.

BLOWS HACK MASTER AWAY!! My ThinkDB program (which I still have to find the up-date to) reguraly crashed changing dates and what not. With hack master installed, the crash consistantly required a complete upload from my computer as it would COMPLETLY lock up the palm. With X-Master installed, all I loose is what I did last! It's fantastic! At least if I'm out and about, and TDB crashes, All I have to do is reset and keep ALL of my other info!!!!

I download something new off this site almost every day to try out, and X-master is the first things I've ever downloaded where a hard reset happened shortly after. However, I cannot directly connect the hard reset to X-master. It happeded after defragmenting my flashpro ROM. I have since opted to leave X-master in RAM, and have had no problems. Its very intuitive and much more user friendly than hackmaster. But keep in mind fellow palmists, backup before installing this gem. Hackmaster only causes an occasional soft reset, which I would take over a one hour restoration set anyday. Other than that concern, its a great program. Oh, I have a IIIc with flashpro and backup buddy (thank God!)

My apologies to the X-Master development team. Upon further testing I determined that the problem I posted in my previous review is not the fault of X-Master, and that I have since put it back into flashROM. I used to keep a couple of hacks in flash and they seem suddenly to disagree with flashROM - after moving all hacks back to RAM the problem disappears. I still have to figure out why this problem occurred suddenly...

Great program! Love the options added over Hackmaster and no problems unlike EVPlugBase caused on my deluxe (and others if you read the comments added to its list). LOVE THIS THING!

This version seems to introduce a peculiar error on my Vx. After moving X-Master into flashrom, the digitizer (I am only guessing it has to do with the digitzer) seems to interpret all contacts as request for the Find function. That is to say whichever part of the screen I touched, the Find function pops up. In addition processing becomes extremely slow - I selected 'Cancel' on the find function and it take around 10 seconds for the Find screen to go away. Soft resetting do not help. This problem has not been repeated once I move X-Master back to RAM. Previous versions of X-Master does not seem to carry the same bug.

This product is outstanding. Its a must have!!! Blows hackmaster away, and best of all its free.

At last a reliable upgrade to HackMaster v.9 It is nice to see the follow on maintenance releases which means that there is ongoing development. Thanks LinkeSoft!

Thanks to LinkeSoft for X-Master!Andreas Linke really listened and promptly replied to the earlier problems with Visor incompatibilities. After fixing that, he could have left it at that, but wonder of wonders, he updated it again to V1.2 and even added "X-Master Lite" for those people who want an even smaller file plus a whole lot of minor but welcome enhancements! Excellent!You've got my vote!

This is the best *Master tool available. It's FREE, it's stable and...it's FREE.

Outstanding! X-Master runs flawlessly on my Vx with all kinds of hacks, lets me get rid of TrapWeaver, removes the need to tell HackMaster to reload my hacks on reset, gives me a choice of what order to view hacks in, and adds the ability to define sets. And as an unexpected bonus (for developers at least), it lets me see what SysTraps each hack is using! This is the natural successor to Hackmaster and belongs on every Palm.

The latest version fixes the problem with Palm VII not being able to use Communication programs. Works Great, no problems what so ever. I am running 10 hacks and use thinair for my email and around 13 pqa's. All are working.

Installed on IIIc with 13 hacks. Runs flawlessly. It's great being able to reload a set of hacks after running FlashPro instead of loading them individually. Very nice product and Freeware as well !

So many hopes dashed into flames. X-Master consistently froze my Palm VII whenever I attempted to use the wireless functions. After I removed X-Master and reinstalled HackMaster and TrapWeavr, everything returned to normal. I guess I shouldn't try to fix a wheel that ain't broken.

I have been using Xmaster since it has been out. The initial version was a little buggy (it lockup on me too) however the author responded quickly!! After installing version 1.1 I am bug free. I have about 15 hacks I use, some of which conflict with one another. Xmasters SETS feature automates turning hacks on and off as I need them. Xmater is a keeper!

X-Master works great on my Palm IIIc. I have not had any problems since I downloaded it, unlike Hackmaster. And I constantly use seven different hacks.

I had the same problems as Bob Applesmith. My plam locked up twice, both requiring a hard reset. :( Hackmaster is back on my palm, and I am going to stick with it. Mike

As I had hoped and suspected, my bug report proved fruitful. By the next morning, I had a new, and functional version of X-Master in my mailbox from Andreas Linke. The incompatibiliy with the PPK driver has been effectively eliminated! I highly recommend that anyone experiencing problems with this software contact him asap with the details. Chances are, he'll either have a new version with the bugs fixed, or will begin fixing them as soon as he can. Kudo's to Andreas! I haven't tried TealMaster, and thankfully don't need to!

LinkSoft, Great job! On my Palm V (German) everything worked fine with version 1.0 and about 15 hacks - Well, it's quite impossible to deliver a bug-free 1.0 version, i hope with version 1.1 the last few problems are fixed now.

Excellent alternative to Hackmaster, free or otherwise. Not as polished as TealMaster, but the price is right. Stable on my Vx (OS 3.5.2) even with 20+ hacks installed.

Beware! I used this to replace Hackmaster on my Palm IIIc. In the days since, my Palm has locked up and this afternoon it would crash even during a reset. In the end I had to hold the Up button while doing a reset, to prevent Xmaster loading. I've just removed it and reinstalled Hackmaster. For the record, I'm running the following Hacks: FindHack, Keyboard, MulticlipHack, SwitchHack, TealNotes 1.14, ReScript2.20, AppHack, SelectHack, 3AlarmHack

I like the program a lot, and have high hopes for its continued improvement. I just wanted to let people know of an apparent incompatibility with the Palm Portable (Stowaway) Keyboard driver. With X-Master installed, the driver is disabled, and putting the palm in the keyboard initiates a HotSync. I've sent a bug report to the author, but wanted to make sure others knew of this at least until the bug is fixed. Even though I can't use it due to this bug, I think it's a great program, and give it 4 stars, based on the assumption that they will fix bugs that are reported. Until then, I'm using EVPlugBase, and will switch back to X-Master as soon as this bug is fixed. :)

I tried Hackmaster but I had a lot of problems with crashes in conjunction with EcoHack. X-Master fixed those problems. And I have the impression that my Palm III works slightly faster with X-Master than with Hackmaster.

I downloaded this program and, like other Visor users, had horrible trouble with it. In my case, it would cause an infinite reset loop whenever I tried to Hotsync. I emailed the author, and very shortly received not only a reply but an updated version. I've stress-tested this with a number of hacks and programs and am now getting excellent results. Hopefully the new version will be posted here shortly; when it is, I'd have no problem in encouraging Visor owners to switch over promptly.

The App just runs fine on my Palm Vx - no crashes - no resets, really just fine. In my opinion its an great and free alternative to Hackmaster.

Worked well for a day...then I'd have to soft reset every other hotsync. Disabling X-master does not cure this...you must delete both the app & db file! I've got a Handspring Platinum and Hackmaster works just fine on that. I'll wait on this one!

I had to remove X-Master from my Visor Deluxe, because it often caused crashes when my Datebk4 alarms were triggered. Whether this is an incompatibility with Datebk4, the datebkstub, or the replacement alarm sounds I've installed, I don't know. But I've gone back to Hackmaster and not had a repeat of the issues.

X-Master has worked fine for a couple days on my Visor Deluxe. i tried TealMaster after reading recent comments here, but it was completely disfunctional -- [near-]immediate resets when activating hacks or leaving TM, and when a hack was activated w/o a reset it didn't work! so, i'm back to X-Master... for now.

I think that palm color series and color clones have a problem with X master.My Vx works perfectly fine. Only complaint is that x master takes up a whopping 40k compared to hackmaster 10K

Unacceptable. Causes HotSync problems on Prism. You can sync once, then the next sync locks up Prism, requiring soft reset. Even deleting X-master does not cure the problem. I proved it was X-master by doing a hard reset, emptying my backup directory, and syncing 3 times to prove everything worked. I installed X-master only. (The ONLY app on a fresh machine), and it locked up on the 2nd reset. Hard resetting again cured the problem. I managed to restore my Prism with BackupBuddy by deleting xmaster.prc, xmasterDB.prc, and unsaved prefs first.

Running IIIc with 3.5.2 os. Installed XMaster, seemed to work well until I tried to do a hotsync or use my Palm Keyboard. Unable to use com1 until XMaster was disabled. XMaster disables keyboard, had to do delete and reinstall .prc for keyboard then had problems deleting XMaster. All seems well after reset, but no XMaster installed.

I felt the need to come back and update my review of X-Master. I was so excited about it that I posted my review right away and it turns out it was a little premature. When I got home from work that night, I started having problems. As soon as I did a HotSync with my Visor Prism on the cradle (I use the HotSync cable at work), I get a fatal error related to a hardware interrupt. Reset and HotSync again and everthing is OK. Next time I HotSync in the cradle, it's the same process all over again. I've switched to TealMaster and I've been using it for a while now without any problems. It sucks that I have to pay $10 for it when there are others that are free, but I that's what I have to pay to get a program that works, then "Oh well."

Please use extreme caution!! Since installing this yesterday, I have had to do 3 hard resets on my Handspring Visor (actually, it was even worse than that...at one point, I couldn't even get it to accept a hard reset and had to drain the charge intentionally. I cannot be certain that this program was the cause. However, it was the only change made prior to the problem, and the machine really had been quite stable before. After I restore it from my backup module, if the problem still exists, I will retract this review. But please be very careful!!! Hackmaster may have been obsolete...but it works.

Great replacement for hackmaster, only problems I found were with backdropEz requirement of trapweaver and the size is a lot bigger than (hackmaster + hackHm + trapweaver) but with 8mg palm who cares.... Excellent work

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! I know that may seem a little excessive, but I have e-mailed Ed Keyes sereral times asking about updates and have NEVER gotten a response (and I shelled out 5 bucks to register). Finally!!! a "HackMaster" that displays properly on a IIIc w/OS 3.5.2!!! Oh yeah, I almost forgot- IT WORKS FLAWLESSLY!!!

I changed to X-Master two weeks ago (as beta tester) and all the annoying features of HackMaster were gone with the wind. The number of crashes decreased dramatically (OK, about 20 Hacks installed might be a bit excessive - but now it works without difficulties). Try out!

It works - and it helps! I like the newly added feature of automatically re-activating hacks after a reset in the SAME ORDER as they were before (I'm using Germchars together with MiddleCapsHack; here, the activating sequence is important).

Great work, thanks LinkeSoft, i just download X-Master (German Version) and installed it on my Palm Vx (OS 3.5.2). The installation procedure is simple and without crash, the actif and inactive Hacks (14)would all be import from Hackmaster in X-Master. Keep it simple stupid - thanks.

I was just remarking today that Hackmaster was old and in need of an update. I cruised to PalmGear.com and there was X-Master right at the top of the 'new' list. Hackmaster worked fine on my Visor Prism, but the + and ? mark buttons didn't display correctly. X-Master corrects this problem and also adds a bit of worthwhile functionality. I only have half a dozen hacks installed, but they all work beautifully on my Prism. If you have a Palm OS 3.5 device, I highly recommend this.