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Fun little devices, really outgrew its origins as a business organiser to the point that a 13 year old me demanded one. Sure, I had a Gameboy, but I wanted a po
by HeckFeck 2y ago
Fun little devices, really outgrew its origins as a business organiser to the point that a 13 year old me demanded one. Sure, I had a Gameboy, but I wanted a portable computer with real programs, dammit!
I still have my Zire 31. Some day I will take it out of the drawer and savour the remains of my neglected island civilisation in Village Sim, before jumping into a spaceship and trading highly profitable goods in Space Trader. Then I'll enjoy some low bitrate YouTube rips in Kinoma Video, the few I could cram onto the 64MB SD card...
- alexisread 2y agoIf you'd been able to buy a Psion 3 (or even better 5) you'd have got your wish, they came with OPL to write on the device :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3
- jhbadger 2y agoThere were on-device development systems for Palm as well. I remember playing with Chipmunk Basic that even had access to some UI elements so you could have working buttons and dialogue boxes in your programs.
- metabagel 2y agoI immediately looked for a comment on Space Trader. What a fun game that was! I feel like FTL is a direct descendant. I retired to my own moon a couple of times at least.
- brnt 2y agoTossing my Zire 31 is one of those things I still regret.