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Re: StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game

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Post by capitain »

waynecochran wrote: post #2

There are all kinds of retro stuff that I still love. What is it about Palm OS that you love?

It's the whole idea of 'apps' before smartphones became a thing. It's also the simplicity of how these worked, forget multitasking, just focus on one thing at a time.

No subscriptions! Either the applications were free or it's a one-off fee/shareware kind of thing.

And it's ofcourse nostalgia, I made my first game for Palm OS over 20 years ago, it was nice to revisit it and get familiarized again with how the whole build system worked.

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Post by felixding »

waynecochran wrote: post #2

There are all kinds of retro stuff that I still love. What is it about Palm OS that you love?

Zen of Palm

Mobile app developers, if you haven't read Zen of Palm, I highly recommend this piece of art. You can download the PDF for free. Nothing beats Palm for its simplicity, responsiveness, and (perhaps subjectively) ease of use, even to this day.

I wrote a series of blog posts about it nearly two decades ago, and later translated some parts into English: https://dingyu.me/blog/zen-of-palm-1-preface

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Post by 06e9 »

felixding wrote: post #6
waynecochran wrote: post #2

There are all kinds of retro stuff that I still love. What is it about Palm OS that you love?

Zen of Palm Mobile app developers, if you haven't read Zen of Palm, I highly recommend this piece of art. You can download the PDF for free. Nothing beats Palm for its simplicity, responsiveness, and (perhaps subjectively) ease of use, even to this day. I wrote a series of blog posts about it nearly two decades ago, and later translated some parts into English: https://dingyu.me/blog/zen-of-palm-1-preface

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Re: StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game

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Post by stronglikedan »

waynecochran wrote: post #2

There are all kinds of retro stuff that I still love. What is it about Palm OS that you love?

It was probably nowhere near as good as I remember, but I remember it being damn near perfect. I lovingly kept my Trio(s) well into the age of the touchscreen smartphone.

Re: StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game

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Post by spiffytech »

I have dreams of porting the old Strategic Commander game to newer devices. Someday I hope it rises to the top of my todo list. I logged hundreds of hours on that game playing with my friends and brother.

Taking turns via IR blaster or pass-and-play was amazing in an era without wifi or cellular data. No account signups or anything, just point your devices at each other and you had a game going. And without continuous connectivity, asynchronous play was the default way games worked, so it worked great.

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