if only there were apps to install...
There is Wordle for PalmOS now:
Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
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Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
#22I went $300 into debt to my parents when I was 9 years old for a Handspring Visor Deluxe. It had 8MB of RAM, a 16-ish MHz DragonBall processor, and ran Palm OS 3.1H3. I vaguely recall the Handspring version (H3) of the OS having a few additional goodies like a world clock and better notes app. A year or two layer my buddy Will bought a Palm Vx at a yard sale and I beamed him the Space Trader PDB because it was my fav…
I really enjoyed mine as well.
Sometimes it would just drain the battery, and gone was all my data. As a young adult, all my appointments would be gone and I was left wondering if I was forgetting an appointment.
Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
#23Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
#24Oh the nostalgia! Every app I tried so far seems to work: Space Trader, SFCave, drawing little animations in Diddlebug... great memories :)
Space Trader.
I played that one before I knew what "Narcotics" meant, and I quickly found out why the police were so interested in my cargo.
There was also a game... Village Sim I think. You'd spend hours building up a village on a desert island (which ran persistently), hoping there were more people born by tomorrow morning. Only to find that a tornado had struck the island and all had perised except a single elderly man.
Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
#25What framework is the UI built in (the emulator, not Palm itself)? I don’t know if it’s like this because I’m on an iPhone, but it’s the most app-like web UI I’ve experienced.
It looks like Ionic https://ionicframework.com/docs/
Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
#26I went $300 into debt to my parents when I was 9 years old for a Handspring Visor Deluxe. It had 8MB of RAM, a 16-ish MHz DragonBall processor, and ran Palm OS 3.1H3. I vaguely recall the Handspring version (H3) of the OS having a few additional goodies like a world clock and better notes app. A year or two layer my buddy Will bought a Palm Vx at a yard sale and I beamed him the Space Trader PDB because it was my fav…
I just discovered that the original source code of Space Trader as well as Java and C# ports are available on github.
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#27Author of Copilot, which became POSE (PalmOS Emulator), which became this. I love it. https://hewgill.com/pilot/copilot/index-old.html
Ah, I wrote Zilot -- a PalmOS emulator for the Mac, in the 1990s ;-)
Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web
#28Had the IBM Workpad c3 (Palm V with an IBM logo on the case). Got it second hand from a local IBM employee.
Read loads of books on it while walking to university (1 hour each way) with iSilo. Dropped it on the road once and it was barely scratched. Played too much SimCity during lectures.
And yes, some of my terrible handwriting bears a strong resemblence to Graffiti.
Upgraded at some point but didn't feel the later models were a great improvement. I really liked that monochrome screen!
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#29Oh, Palm Vx. I miss that thing. Days of battery life, easy to use, and simple to sync. I still write my upper-case 'E' in jot. I miss you, PalmOS.
Had m105, still have the same endearing handwriting style.
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#30I always wanted a PalmPilot when I was a kid. Seems like I finally can!