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PalmOS (the original one)



Ha ha, good one. I had a Palm V and a Palm Zire. Both were very good devices. One of the best features was the instant-on and you're back in the app you were last using, after power-on. No booting period of even a few seconds. And of course, the Graffiti handwriting system (with the stylus) was great too. I even tried using Pippy, a port of Python to the Palm. Would have been great for writing small snippets of code on the go, at a restaurant, bus stop, train station, beach, etc. Unfortunately it was buggy and crashed a lot.


I still use Palm Graffiti as shorthand when playing Boggle.


TIL about Boggle. Seems like an interesting game, thanks. Must check it out.

For anyone else interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle


did you see the exciting new PalmOS 4.1 m515 emulator? I'm especially looking forward to an emscripten build of it, for iPhones!

https://github.com/meepingsnesroms/Mu


Working on bringing this (os5) back on modern cheap microcontrollers. For fun. So far, I have it booting on an STM429 Dev board. I post occasional updates in /r/palm

(I'm the guy who was palmpowerups)




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