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PalmOS Emulation On PocketPC

Posted by timothy on from the your-battery-life-may-vary dept.

TimeTrav writes "Check out this review of a PalmOS emulator for the PocketPC platform. At this point, it only runs V1 and V2 roms, but work is underway for V3 and V4 rom compatibility. If this works, I may just have to fork over the cash for an iPaq. This has pretty profound implications; its like carrying two handhelds in one, if it works." This helps answer an old Ask Slashdot question as well. Now, will it be able to run Linux on PalmOS on WinCE?

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  1. On topic FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    Has it occured to you that *somehow* you have a relevent, informative, on-topic, and decently lengthy comment that is also a first post? Ah! The trolls arn't what they used to be!

  2. Why not just port th' Palm OS Emulator (CoPilot)? by strredwolf · · Score: 5
    Why didn't they just port POSE from Palm to WinCE? The code's GPL'ed, and already works for Win32, Unix (w/fltk) and MacOS, with full capabilities. It also already works with PalmOS 1, 2, 3.x, and 4. Why?

    I also think there's already a Palm-on-CE emulator out there that's a port...

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  3. Distributing the OS with this? by Craig+Maloney · · Score: 4
    Wonder how long before Palm clamps down on these folks Apple-Style if they are releasing the OS along with their packages. :)

    It's nice to see an emulator for the Palm OS on WinCE, but honestly I don't think anyone will use this outside of the hacker community.

  4. Re:is there a pocketPC emulator? by cdipierr · · Score: 4

    If you have the MS Embedded Toolkit which enables you to build WinCE apps, you get an "emulator" of sorts. Unlike the PalmOS emulators it doesn't really pretend to be a device (it doesn't use the iPaq ROM or anything), instead it's just another target you can build your apps for and it behaves sorta-kinda-mostly like the real devices, but there are some UI glitches amongst other problems.

  5. is there a pocketPC emulator? by option8 · · Score: 4

    i know there are palmOS emulators out there (for all kinds of platforms) mainly for development and testing, but what about a WinCE emulator?

    it just tempts me to try and run, say, linux on Palm inside the Palm emultor for WinCE, inside the WinCE emulator running under virtualPC inside MacOnLinux on yellow dog linux on my G4...

    whew..

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  6. Re:Speed Implications by edremy · · Score: 5

    I don't know what WinCE devices you've been using, but my iPaq is amazingly quick.

    I've got Quake, a fully 3-d racing game and a flight simulator on it. It takes no time at all to load up the pocket New York Times, whereas on my (older) Pilot it can take 10-20 seconds to load a long page. Response to any button click is instantaneous. Don't get caught in the "It's MS so it's slow, buggy and insecure. Of course I haven't used or even seen it, but I'm quite sure that I'm right" trap.

    I had a choice between the iPaq and a m505 at my new job: I took the iPaq despite having used and liked Palm machines for years. Laugh at MS at your peril: WinCE3 is quite useable. Unless Palm gets off their asses and ships something far, far better than the m505 the high end market is going to desert them in droves.

    Eric

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  7. finally.. by vectus · · Score: 5
    the multimedia capabilities of Palm, combined with the stability, and speed of windows CE..

    if only love could be this sweet..

  8. Hmm... by 11223 · · Score: 5

    This marks the end of the PalmOS reign... ... and the DOS/Windows market ended as soon as Macs could emulate PC's. Nice try. I still have a dozen reasons why I prefer my Handspring, not the least of which is cost (and battery life, and screen quality...)