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I still have my palm IIIxe I have used it to write my games during Go tournaments. I have a usb/serial adaptor. The software was easy to install on linux. Just

I still have my palm IIIxe I have used it to write my games during Go tournaments. I have a usb/serial adaptor. The software was easy to install on linux. Just to write this comment, I have tried to use it (I have not done any tournament since 7 years), but I got an error when I enter "apt-get install pilot-link". I still have my notes on how to use it: https://github.com/jichu4n/pilot-link/blob/master/doc/README.usb https://web.archive.org/web/20160226115446/http://www.pilot-link.org/ apt-get install pilot-link export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyUSB0 pilot-xfer --sync=/root/.pilot pilot-xfer -i /home/jef/Documents/Jef/old/pilotgone.prc pilot-dlpsh -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -i Does anyone knows how to get back pilot-link package ?

duskwuff 1y ago
pilot-link was removed from Debian in 2019, as some components of the project depended on Python 2, and the upstream web site disappeared. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=937292 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=937292 It looks like there's a fork at https://github.com/desrod/pilot-link https://github.com/desrod/pilot-link, but I don't know how functional that is.
- Cosi1125 1y ago
  It is functional. Arch's AUR uses it as a source for `pilot-link-git` package[1]; works just fine with jPilot. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pilot-link-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pilot-link-git
  - reacweb 1y ago
    Some more patches at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/pi/pilot-link https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/pi.... ./configure --enable-conduits && make && make install sudo export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib then it works like a charm. Thank you very much. My usb serial converter is the cheapest chinese one I found.
kstrauser 1y ago
Tell me more about this cable. I bought a IIIxe of eBay for cheap recently for the nostalgia of it, but put it aside when I realized I couldn’t physically connect it to anything. I’d love to play with it a little more.
- reacweb 1y ago
  It is just a cheap chinese usb/serial adaptor used to plug the original serial cable of the dock. Nothing special.

duskwuff 1y ago

pilot-link was removed from Debian in 2019, as some components of the project depended on Python 2, and the upstream web site disappeared. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=937292 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=937292 It looks like there's a fork at https://github.com/desrod/pilot-link https://github.com/desrod/pilot-link, but I don't know how functional that is.

Cosi1125 1y ago
It is functional. Arch's AUR uses it as a source for `pilot-link-git` package[1]; works just fine with jPilot. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pilot-link-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pilot-link-git
- reacweb 1y ago
  Some more patches at https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/pi/pilot-link https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/by-name/pi.... ./configure --enable-conduits && make && make install sudo export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib then it works like a charm. Thank you very much. My usb serial converter is the cheapest chinese one I found.

kstrauser 1y ago

Tell me more about this cable. I bought a IIIxe of eBay for cheap recently for the nostalgia of it, but put it aside when I realized I couldn’t physically connect it to anything. I’d love to play with it a little more.

reacweb 1y ago
It is just a cheap chinese usb/serial adaptor used to plug the original serial cable of the dock. Nothing special.