🚀 StarGrid has launched! A brand-new Palm OS strategy game in 2025 🎮

Hex grid, space battles, flags to capture or opponents to destroy — play on a real Palm device or in your browser: https://quarters.captaintouch.com/captainsstargrid.html

Made from scratch, no engines, just old-school Palm coding challenges and fully open source! ✅

Keep Palm OS alive, one game at a time! 🌌

#palmos #RetroGaming #retrocomputing #retro #opensource #indiegame #IndieDev

Always feels weird when you are wrapping up a project. This time it's StarGrid for PalmOS. What started as a game that I thought I would definitely finish in a month ended up taking more than half a year.

Allot of 'manual' labor went into this game, no premade game engine, no additional sdk's. Just making it from scratch, trying to solve one technical puzzle after another, but learning so many neat things along the way.

So yes, it's actually ready, release will be somewhere in the next days.

While I won't immediately jump into the next big sideproject, I think I need a breather, I do have some ideas lined up that I've been wanting to explore for a while now: making a racing game, building a ray-tracing game (like wolf3d). Much more exciting stuff to come.

For now I hope at least some people will enjoy playing StarGrid and even if it's not their cup of tea, the game is fully open source, so I hope that can contribute to others making games and applications for this not-so-forgotten platform called Palm OS.

Enough said, keep your eyes peeled for the official StarGrid release announcement in a few days!

#palm #palmos #indiedev #retrogaming

Testing StarGrid on both hi-res and lowres color Palm devices. Running with 4 CPU players going head-to-head!

📱 Devices in the arena:

Palm Tungsten C
Sony Clié SJ22/E
Palm TX
Palm Treo 650
Palm Zire 31
Palm Tungsten T3
Palm Zire 71
IBM Workpad C505 (aka Palm M505)

Thanks @kenney for the ship asset!

#StarGrid #PalmOS #RetroGaming #IndieDev #retro #retrocomputing

Final nice-to-have added before release of StarGrid for PalmOS: PowerUps!

When a ship is destroyed, it can leave a health or torpedo pack. Alternatively, the bases can also create one of these on demand.

Next up is playtesting and then I think it's ready to unleash it onto the massive hordes of Palm OS gamers out there!

#palm #palmos #indiegame #indiedev #retrogaming #retrocomputing #retro

Now this was a fun afternoon project!
Building a TV Time Machine using a Raspberry Pi.
Randomly playing 90's shows without having a say in it!

https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2025-09-20-tv-time-machine-a-raspberry-pi-that-plays-random-90s-tv.html

#tv #television #90s #nostalgia #raspberrypi