DirtysnowballNov 25, 2022
Jason Scott

So, don't tell anybody, but we're going to announce Palm Pilot emulation in the browser at Internet Archive in the next week or so. I've still got to get descriptions in for the hundreds of apps that are uploaded, and add a few more classics. But if you want to help with that, or just let me know how it's going, ping me here.

But don't tell anybody! It's a secret!

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm

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Show threadRairiiNov 24, 2022
@textfiles A secret to everybody?
Show threadJason ScottNov 24, 2022
@Rairii shhh
Show threaderazmus 🇨🇦Nov 24, 2022
@textfiles This place is going to get ruined once all the unwashed masses arrive :)
Show threadIoanNov 24, 2022
@textfiles I loved my palm..
Show threadSamuelJohnsonNov 24, 2022
@IoanSaid @textfiles I still have my first, plus the stand, case, spare stylus, and modem*, and maybe a serial to USB cable. Not sure about hardcopies of manual & software. Worked fine the last time I put batteries in it about a year ago. The later ones long gone. Would love to find a good use for it.
Show threadJanNov 25, 2022
@IoanSaid @textfiles me too
Show threadTreehuggrNov 25, 2022
@IoanSaid @textfiles I still have my palm pilot! I need a new charger for it though.
Show threadIoanNov 25, 2022
@treehuggr @textfiles eBay?
Show threadTreehuggrNov 25, 2022
@IoanSaid @textfiles maybe... I'll have to check it out. It was the bomb digity walking around work with it before I got my cell phone with a 2 in b&w screen!
Show threadIoanNov 24, 2022
@textfiles playing Command and Conquest during meetings.. :)
Show threadBenjamin JohnsNov 24, 2022
@textfiles Tyranny on my Handspring was absolutely the reason I never learned to properly calculate integrals.
Show threadKroc CamenNov 24, 2022
@textfiles cc'ing @thomholwerda (No QRTs on Mastodon yet?)
Show threadDavid ChasteenNov 24, 2022
@kroc @textfiles @thomholwerda dumb question maybe but are there open source projects to recreate palm style hardware to run this stuff on? Seems like it could be great and useful for minimalist computing applications.
Show threadRDeihmNov 24, 2022
@textfiles omg yes!
Show threadmmu_manNov 24, 2022
@textfiles trust me, it won't get out of the Internet.
Show threadJason ScottNov 24, 2022
@mmu_man Exactly, keep it on the down low
Show threadGabe KangasNov 24, 2022
@textfiles YESSSS!!!!
Show threadSubtleBlade ⚔️Nov 24, 2022
@textfiles I loved my palm pilot
Show threadSedat KapanogluNov 24, 2022
@textfiles especially don't tell @shanselman !
Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Nov 24, 2022
@ssg @textfiles omg there’s my #diabetes app! It was the first health app for #PalmPilot https://archive.org/details/palm3_glucopil thanks Jason!
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Show threadRairiiNov 24, 2022
@shanselman "324i0000" really? :)
Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Nov 24, 2022
@Rairii sorry, missing context?
Show threadRairiiNov 24, 2022
@shanselman i put the prc into IDA (because I wrote a hex-rays mod to decompile m68k for another project and wanted to see how it would fare on a palmos binary), and "324i0000" is a valid serial number, which just a strings dump would show. :)
Show threadScott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Nov 24, 2022
@Rairii ah, this build of GlucoPilot is "post-me-selling-it." I had a whole shareware operation and a little VB app to generate product keys, and an excel sheet of all the thousands of users, but then when they bought the app they totally changed the serial number thing. Maybe that's some const of theirs?
Show threadSpindley Q FrogNov 24, 2022
@textfiles hell yeah! I wonder how hard it would be to set up a subcollection of Kyle's Quest games...
Show threadEliot LashNov 24, 2022
@SpindleyQ @textfiles I was hoping to find lode runner on there but oh well. This is awesome!
Show threadErik MoellerNov 24, 2022

@textfiles

I pushed the "boost" button, which I believe is the "mention it only to your closest allies in complete confidence" feature in this here mastodoane apparatus

Show threadLuis LevyNov 25, 2022
@eloquence @textfiles Boosting is like a DM here, right?
Show threadIsaac SuNov 24, 2022
@textfiles omg, you have DopeWars!
Show threadjtonlineNov 24, 2022
@textfiles does that mean I'll be able to run Flash Boom again?!
https://archive.org/details/tucows_33513_Flash_Boom
Flash Boom : http://palmguy.surfhere.net : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Show threadMatt LewisNov 24, 2022
@textfiles I imagine that @inlovewithpda would love to know that secret.
Show threadin ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)Nov 25, 2022
@semiprime @textfiles yes, he does :)
Show threadJons MostovojsNov 24, 2022
@textfiles when you really need to count 9 days, #EarthTime got your back!
Show threadMaxNov 24, 2022
@textfiles oh this is SO cool
Show threadAndy OsiraNov 24, 2022
@textfiles loved my folding palm V.x keyboard, modem/palm stand combo. Always felt like 007 plugging that into uk hotel room phone sockets and hearing the dial up tones to get my 100% totes important emails !! The whole lot fit into a pocket and it was 1999. Radical
Show threadZBNov 25, 2022

@osira @textfiles

I'm missing folding keyboard too!

Show threadAndy OsiraNov 27, 2022
@textfiles *edit - actually it may have been earlier- 1997 ?
Show threadBenny PowersNov 24, 2022
@textfiles oh yes! so i get to play that wicked-good startrek game again? nice!
Show threadSam VekemansNov 24, 2022
@textfiles I had a Palm m105, Tungsten W, Treo 600 and Treo650 :) They were awesome devices, and before it's time. #palm
Show threadjorritreedijkNov 24, 2022
still have my palm III and you know what, it still works :). Downloaded e-mails in 1999 with a modem attached to a nokia 5110. @textfiles
Show threadDavid Erik Nelson🪬Nov 24, 2022
@textfiles Daleks *and* HMaki!!!!!
Show threadPJ Perez Nov 24, 2022
@textfiles cc @andreu !
Show threadNeoFoxNov 24, 2022
@textfiles *proceeds to tell the entire fediverse*
Show threadCochise César Nov 24, 2022

Imagina toda uma geração que babou nos Palms mas não teve como comprar sorrindo.

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm

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Show threadRomain GuyNov 24, 2022
@textfiles I have a game I wrote for Palm eons ago, how can I contribute it?
Show threadSean GilleranNov 24, 2022
@textfiles Now there’s a world of software I never thought I’d see again! Any plans to add Handspring stuff?
Show threadSean GilleranNov 24, 2022
@textfiles 🤔 https://archive.org/details/palm3_tiktok
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Show threadSaint Baal-MAŠNov 24, 2022
@textfiles a secret. Like how Walt Whitman whispers to only you, his friend, in Leaves of Grass. And then sells the book to everyone. ;P
Show threadIlsa 🍁 ✅Nov 24, 2022
@textfiles YES!! You have Neko! <3. So pointless, yet so adorable!
Show threadMark EichinNov 24, 2022
@textfiles haha of course https://archive.org/details/palm3_softgps is in there.
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Show threadTim RichardsNov 24, 2022
@textfiles Interestingly I’m still using Docs To Go on my iPhone, the only app I used on the Palm as well. :)
Show threadChuck JordanNov 24, 2022
@textfiles Thanks for releasing this! I found the Tetris clone I wrote for the Palm Pilot, the first game I ever actually finished making. I’d almost forgotten all about it.
Show threadMatt MenzenskiNov 24, 2022
@textfiles @mnl oh wow! PalmPilot was my first foray into personal computing - I had one in middle school. Will need to check this out!
Show threadTerrorBite 🦁Nov 24, 2022

@textfiles #Alt4You

Image Description: A screenshot of the archive.org website, showcasing a number of Palm Pilot apps that are available.

Show threadDispatches from Floor 13Nov 24, 2022
@textfiles Holy cow!
Show threadENIGMATICO  Nov 24, 2022
@textfiles ​​
Show threadRev. GothAliceNov 24, 2022

@textfiles As the author of a fair amount of PalmOS software back in the day, this excites me. I have an excuse to pull out the development archives!

There's another exciting PalmOS project I've been following, PumpkinOS: https://www.youtube.com/@pmig9661 — "native" multi-windowing PalmOS.

Glad I found Pumpkin before I embarked on pretty much exactly that project, myself.

pmig96

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Show threadmcshuftsNov 24, 2022
@textfiles if you fancy adding NGage (makes it sound so easy) at some point it would be worth it for Pathway to Glory alone. A sadly forgotten hidden gem.
Show threadLP🔸Light up the nightNov 24, 2022
@textfiles oh sweet, I should stick Stylopalm on there, so everyone can make horrible noises, right from the browser