Is there still any place to find/download Palm apps?
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Is there still any place to find/download Palm apps?
Thanks
Surprising, there are still many.
Search for palmos app download
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Found some.
Amazingly enough, PalmOS Software just like amiga and dos is still quite readily available.
A few of my gotos are:
and of course the ever wonderful Palm Pilot Software Software - Free Download Palm Pilot Software
If one has a copy of Palm OS Emulator a basic understanding of C, the tutorial, and the free sdk then one can still easily make software for the devices that can at times out do any android app that usually on the play store.
For extra credit;
Four of the best titles for PalmOS also run on android:
And of course; PHEM the Palm Hardware Emulator
sorry for the info overload but this is one of my passions as a developer for the platform and long term user… if I could I would still use my Palm IIIc, Palm T5 or even Palm Treo 700p
In the first part of the 2000s, I was involved in a project to implement a PalmOS emulator.
This was at the time when a bunch of Windows CE handhelds were coming out and there was not much software for them. Our idea was to create an emulator which did not require the Palm firmware, sell it to Microsoft and make more money than Mark Cuban did with broadcast.com
Before we could get it done, the whole PDA market went poof.
Palm was well ahead of its time.
I recall thinking that Palm should have taken the next step and gone big screen after the T5 came out.
Of the apps available I liked Fitaly best. Too bad, it never got ported to IOS or Android.
gone big screen after the T5 came out
Yes they should have the only barrier at the time was screen technology was based more on resistive TFTs instead of the modern IPS+ capacitive touchscreens we have now. And these were very expensive at the time to make.
Plus given the time the biggest competitor to Palm wasn’t any WinCE (they even had versions running that) by HP/Dell it was Blackberry whom had government and fin tech buy in vs the general consumer markets their choices where to go more mobile device which that itself opened the minds and wallets for people to switch from their flip phones to the iPhone.
I vaguely remember a project like that back in the day. But your right Palm was ahead of its time over all but they just didn’t have the vision of blackberry and apple to take it any further than they did. At least that’s my view of the market in hidesight.
Heck even their revamp of the palm os to be html+js based with webOS was way ahead of what we’re already catch up with on Google’s PWA designs. The only thing that killed that was well the Cult of Mac and a Search Engine gone advertising firm.