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Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

#52

I cringe to recall that, on a date in a Manhattan restaurant, I once showed a woman my PalmPilot. She was deeply unimpressed, and went on to marry an A-list celebrity, which only pours salt on the digital wound.

Perhaps you should lead with personality?

Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

#53

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 just discovered that the original source code of Space Trader as well as Java and C# ports are available on github.

And for Android, you have it on FDroid.

Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Sorry, I tried but it got taken down pretty much immediately. Feel free to reach out to me personally though! I think it's a pity that the excellent workmanship that went into that software is now no longer being recognised, because the legacy devices aren't for sale. They were good tools!

Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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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…

Someone had previously posted this short documentary about Handspring. You might enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_Vh9h3Ohw

Thanks for posting that, I really enjoyed watching it. I had a Treo 650 in the 2000s and loved it, despite its flaws.

Re: Cloudpilot, a PalmOS Emulator for the Web

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post #48

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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.

Who would steal two Palmtops from you? That is a travesty indeed.
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