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Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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peterburkimsher wrote: post #33
pjerem wrote: post #12

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Ha, I started with Windows CE "Pocket PC". An HP iPaq H1930 iirc and then a Dell Axim x50v. These devices were really niche, to say the least. I’ve never seen another than the mines. Still, there was an astonishingly high number of available applications. Some developers from this era, especially game devs, are now great mobile devs. Talking about games, there were some real gems on those devices. Hell, there was eve…

My mum had a blue Handspring Visor, which was great for playing Bejeweled on long car journeys in 1999! At the time I used a personal organiser from Time Magazine to note down homework assignments. In 2006, a friend at my parent's Bible study group donated an regionalised HTC Himalaya (Orange SPV M1000) running Windows Mobile 5. It was so powerful! My favourite was pPod, an iPod emulator. It could also run MSN messen…

Nice collection ! You can upload all of this to archive.org

Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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Post by causi »

peterburkimsher wrote: post #33
pjerem wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha, I started with Windows CE "Pocket PC". An HP iPaq H1930 iirc and then a Dell Axim x50v. These devices were really niche, to say the least. I’ve never seen another than the mines. Still, there was an astonishingly high number of available applications. Some developers from this era, especially game devs, are now great mobile devs. Talking about games, there were some real gems on those devices. Hell, there was eve…

My mum had a blue Handspring Visor, which was great for playing Bejeweled on long car journeys in 1999! At the time I used a personal organiser from Time Magazine to note down homework assignments. In 2006, a friend at my parent's Bible study group donated an regionalised HTC Himalaya (Orange SPV M1000) running Windows Mobile 5. It was so powerful! My favourite was pPod, an iPod emulator. It could also run MSN messen…

OldHandhelds.com has a whole lot of stuff.

Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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Post by seanc »

alexjplant wrote: post #4

I 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 bought an MP3 Springboard module. Friend of mine asked "Where is the 'stop' button on that thing?" "There isn't one. There's nothing to stop."

Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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Post by dustymcp »

razemio wrote: post #5

I bought a m105 from my own pocket money. I used it for years. It was neardy but I loved this thing. Later switched to Windows CE / Mobile. My God these things where powerful. First smartphone was a Web OS device for me. Never had a better Hardware keyboard device. I was SO fast on that thing. Sadly there is no up to date smartphone with a horizontal keyboard. I need it so bad for termux. Sad days... Blackberry will…

I miss my Nokia with full keyboard best experince hands down no spellcheck BS

Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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Post by vel0city »

razemio wrote: post #5

I bought a m105 from my own pocket money. I used it for years. It was neardy but I loved this thing. Later switched to Windows CE / Mobile. My God these things where powerful. First smartphone was a Web OS device for me. Never had a better Hardware keyboard device. I was SO fast on that thing. Sadly there is no up to date smartphone with a horizontal keyboard. I need it so bad for termux. Sad days... Blackberry will…

I too had an m105. I used it in school growing up. I was really proficient with graffiti, I could write just as fast on the graffiti system as I could write in print. It also meant I had very well formatted notes for all my classes backed up on my computer. I would also write up a lot of rough drafts on my pilot to be cleaned up and finally edited on a desktop for all the papers I had to write for classes.

I later upgraded to a used CLIÉ PEG-SJ22. It was an awesome upgrade. with the high-res (320x320) color scree Just having an actual USB port on it made it so much more useful as then I could easily transfer things from school computers to home.

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Post by xjlin0 »

When talking about battery life and general usability, nothing beats PalmOS yet. With weeks of battery life, it just took 3~4 key press/strokes to start jogging down something or checking schedules tomorrow, etc. Nothing on Android or iOS can beat it even without counting passcode clearance.

It was truly a golden age for handhelds. TONs of apps probably because of developer friendly plus the great eco system. I always wonder what would happen if national network coverage and web apps on Palm OS were better.

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Post by cfontes »

HeckFeck wrote: post #24
memalign wrote: post #2

Oh 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 elderl…

Space Trader was a time sink, I played it so much on My Palm Vx and that Blue Palm Zire 71.

Loved both, both were stolen unfortunately otherwise I would have them.

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Post by warning26 »

xjlin0 wrote: post #47

When talking about battery life and general usability, nothing beats PalmOS yet. With weeks of battery life, it just took 3~4 key press/strokes to start jogging down something or checking schedules tomorrow, etc. Nothing on Android or iOS can beat it even without counting passcode clearance. It was truly a golden age for handhelds. TONs of apps probably because of developer friendly plus the great eco system. I alway…

I loved my Palm device! The one thing I do think modern devices get better is text input.

When the iPhone was released, I was skeptical about its soft keyboard, but I was amazed at how much faster I could type on it than I could write with Graffiti. (And I was pretty good at Graffiti -- version 1 of course, not that awful Graffiti 2 trash-tier imposter.)

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