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Palm OS Emulator Ported to Sharp Zaurus

Posted by timothy on from the slidey-keyboard-plus-graffiti dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Palm Info Center reports that POSE (the Palm Os Emulator) has been ported to the Sharp Zaurus using the QTopia palmtop environment. See the QPOSE homepage for more information." This could make a Zaurus a much more attractive device to those of us with lots of important info on Palm Os devices, but according to other readers' submissions it does require a Palm ROM image to function.

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  1. And Palm will give you the ROM! by BancBoy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Palm gives out the ROMs for various models via the web for their free "development" Palm emulator. If these ROMs will work for the emulator, you're set.

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    1. Re:And Palm will give you the ROM! by Tha_Zanthrax · · Score: 4, Informative

      That emulator can be found at http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/.

      Access to the ROMs requiers a membership of the Palm OS Developer Program. to bad...

      There are tools packed with the emulator to extract ROMs from your PalmOS device.

  2. Umm... Its SLOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't think this will be useful for much of anything until the speed issue is fixed. The emulator takes nearly 3 minutes to go from the Palm logo to the main icon view. I'm not exaggerating.

    Its painful.

    really really painful.

  3. Review of a PalmOS emulator for PocketPC by afflatus_com · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many are working to port PalmOS to PocketPC also.

    Here is a in-depth review a while ago of one of the stronger offerings:
    Review of alpha version of "PocketPalm"

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