Palm OS Emulator Ported to Sharp Zaurus

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.

Comments

And Palm will give you the ROM!

[BancBoy]

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.

Re:And Palm will give you the ROM!

[Tha_Zanthrax]

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.

Umm... Its SLOW

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Review of a PalmOS emulator for PocketPC

[afflatus_com]

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"

Re:It's getting obselete

[Locutus]

You don't seem to know much about this. PalmSource is moving to OS5 which is ARM based but they want everyone to keep writing software for the 68k. OS5 will have mappings from the 68k to the ARM native OS5. They say the apps will run more than 2x faster on the ARM than on the current DragonBalls.

This means there is no reason to expect there being an immediate fork in the application development cycle for PalmOS apps. And all those apps will run on QPose (or atleast most will).

LoB