porting PalmOS apps?

Paul Bohme paul at bohme.org
Sun Jan 21 18:20:29 CET 2007


David Schlesinger wrote:
> On 1/21/07 5:52 AM, "Joe Pfeiffer" <jjpfeifferjr at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> I wouldn't say the API is as bad as you do, but
>> it's certainly *different*.
>>     
>
>   

What's the old rule - 'if you can't think of something nice to say...'

So I'm not going to say anything.  >:)

> Only from Linux. It's actually very similar to the pre-OS X Mac OS APIs...
>   

Considering my only pre-OS X exposure was far enough back that PPC was 
still really novel, see above comment.

> Making legacy apps written for the "Garnet" OS (née "Palm OS") run on Linux
> is decidedly non-trivial. An emulator for this is going to be part of the
> ACCESS Linux Platform...
>   

Interesting - so an emulator for the old 68k stuff?

  -P





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