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Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by JKCalhoun » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 9:40 PM UTC

Miniature golf was a game I began twice for the Macintosh back in the 1990's but never ended up completing/shipping.

I've just recently been trying to recover my nearly 35 year old sources and create disk images for use on an emulator. The first B&W attempt at MiniGolf is here: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa...

The second attempt (when I was a better programmer) was in color ... will make it on Volume 2. (I'm currently trying to put that disk image together.)

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by flymasterv » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 9:52 PM UTC

xrd wrote: post #19

The post suggests getting a real device. Where the heck do you get a real device these days? Is there some retro hardware out there? An open source project where you send out a PCB order to Shenzhen?

eBay has new-in-box Zires for $10.

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by aresant » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 9:57 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #21

Miniature golf was a game I began twice for the Macintosh back in the 1990's but never ended up completing/shipping. I've just recently been trying to recover my nearly 35 year old sources and create disk images for use on an emulator. The first B&W attempt at MiniGolf is here: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa... The second attempt (when I was a better programmer) was in color ... will mak…

Glider was THE franchise of the 68k mac era, I am more than a little starstruck, glad to see that you are back at it!

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by freedomben » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 9:58 PM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #12

This is beautiful! And now I'm nostalgic for my IIIxe. Through the rose colored glasses of poor remembrance, that might've been peek productivity in a handheld. It had enough functionality to remember all the things I cared to have on my person at all times, but was utterly lacking in notifications about distractions. It took me a while to quiet my iPhone so that it's not always pestering the hell out of me, but Palm…

I feel the same. I loved my IIIxe. I'm guessing we'd be horrified at the UX now if we could go back, but at the time it was a huge boost in productivity. The handwriting language was really great. I actually wrote papers on that thing! It was great, I could work on papers while on the bus or travelling, without having to lug around a laptop. Remarkable devices.

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by eichin » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 9:59 PM UTC

xrd wrote: post #19

The post suggests getting a real device. Where the heck do you get a real device these days? Is there some retro hardware out there? An open source project where you send out a PCB order to Shenzhen?

ebay; the hardware has lasted surprisingly well. (That said, chrome on a recent samsung phone runs CloudPilot very responsively, start here https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm and you can just click on things and run them...)

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by JKCalhoun » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 10:02 PM UTC

aresant wrote: post #23

JKCalhoun wrote: post #21

Miniature golf was a game I began twice for the Macintosh back in the 1990's but never ended up completing/shipping. I've just recently been trying to recover my nearly 35 year old sources and create disk images for use on an emulator. The first B&W attempt at MiniGolf is here: https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/SoftDorothy-UnfinishedTa... The second attempt (when I was a better programmer) was in color ... will mak…

Glider was THE franchise of the 68k mac era, I am more than a little starstruck, glad to see that you are back at it!

It's kind of for nostalgia that I am putting together all the sources, artwork, projects, (tools) on a disk image suitable for emulators. To me it has been fun trying to go through old hard drives and find the "almost rans" like MiniGolf (and later LiliPutz).

The shareware and commercial games (Glider, etc.) are on disk images in other repos. (You should be able to find them easily if you care to.)

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by two_cents » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 10:05 PM UTC

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #20

I am not very familiar with Palm OS, but I do like the idea of a smart device that isn’t a full on smartphone. Something like the old Palm devices or the Pocket PCs from 25 years ago. Is there such a thing today? What gets closest?

BOOX Palma maybe? https://shop.boox.com/products/palma

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by post_break » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 10:08 PM UTC

I miss bike or die. For a while it was on iOS but didn’t get updates. I had hours in that game.

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by AshamedCaptain » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 10:18 PM UTC

andrewshadura wrote: post #14

It would be really cool if someone wrote something like WINE to allow running PalmOS applications on Android.

https://styletap.com/

Re: A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

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Post by i80and » Wed, Sep 11, 2024, 10:20 PM UTC

freedomben wrote: post #24

kstrauser wrote: post #12

This is beautiful! And now I'm nostalgic for my IIIxe. Through the rose colored glasses of poor remembrance, that might've been peek productivity in a handheld. It had enough functionality to remember all the things I cared to have on my person at all times, but was utterly lacking in notifications about distractions. It took me a while to quiet my iPhone so that it's not always pestering the hell out of me, but Palm…

I feel the same. I loved my IIIxe. I'm guessing we'd be horrified at the UX now if we could go back, but at the time it was a huge boost in productivity. The handwriting language was really great. I actually wrote papers on that thing! It was great, I could work on papers while on the bus or travelling, without having to lug around a laptop. Remarkable devices.

So I actually bought a Palm Classic device to test the hypothesis that my memories are nostelgia.

They're not! It's actually a great UX!