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Cool to see my project-in-progress here. Happy to answer questions. there's still a lot to do until I'm ready to produce hardware, but a lot already works. The
by dmitrygr 8y ago
Cool to see my project-in-progress here. Happy to answer questions.
there's still a lot to do until I'm ready to produce hardware, but a lot already works. The plan is to update the article as I go along, and eventually open source everything once I'm convinced it works at least well enough to be used.
- steve19 8y agoReally enjoyed reading it thank you. I miss my Palm Pilots. I love the UI, both functionally and the aesthetics.
- dmitrygr 8y agoI'll have hardware you can build for $20 that will run PalmOS soon. Stand by.
- cmroanirgo 8y agoThat's very cool. Good luck!
- steve19 8y agoI can't wait, thank you!!! Is it likely that there would ever be alternative inputs than Graffiti? While I loved Graffiti at the time, a ios/android virtual keyboard with a decent capacitive touch screen would be nicer today.
- dmitrygr 8y agoPalmos always supported other virtual keyboards. Sony had decuma for example.
- AshamedCaptain 8y agoI would really appreciate it if you were to release your DAL and "runner". I would really enjoy having a workable way to emulate PalmOS on top of Linux/Android. StyleTap is just too pricey and almost abandoned at this point (it tends to give a black screen on modern Android), and PHEM/xpilot/POSE, while open source, just emulates m68k meaning you're stuck with OS4 ROMs, no PNOlets, no high-density, difficulty integrating with host services, millions of bugs, ...
- dmitrygr 8y agoRe: code: I shall release it once it works a but better. That was always the plan Styletap implements a higher level API (boot-level ish) so it is less compatible.
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- userbinator 8y agoI'm curious why you didn't choose to emulate the Palm hardware itself, much like e.g. a Gameboy emulator would, and thus not need to worry about the internal structure of the software.
- dmitrygr 8y agoWouldn't be fast enough to be real-time. Also emulation is never good on batteries. I want to build real usable devices. On batteries.
- userbinator 8y agoI think I got the wrong impression from your article; I thought you were trying to write something like a Gameboy emulator. As to not being fast enough, smartphones now have multiple >1GHz cores, and emulating an ARM with an ARM naturally leads to virtualisation-ish approaches. It doesn't seem a mid-90s/early 2000s PDA would need that much computing power.
- dmitrygr 8y agoTungsten C had a 400-MHz ARMv5 core and 64MB of RAM Good luck emulating that realtime on your phone with good battery life (or at all). :)