Welcome to HPC:Factor

For those few who dare to venture into the world of programming for the Handheld PC, HPC:Factor has always maintained its list of patches and updates for using the Windows CE Development Tools. One of the long-standing pieces of advice here is that the highest version of the Windows... Continue Reading »

The award winning and feature packed Excel alternative, SpreadCE has been updated for the first time for 2024.

The Shareware release, version 3.18, provides a comprehensive, multi-platform replacement for Microsoft Excel/Pocket Excel on a broad range of Windows CE devices, including the H/PC and Pocket PC as well as on Android.... Continue Reading »

It has been a while since we had a flashback review here on the site. If you are new to the site, a flashback review is a review of an old piece of Handheld PC memorabilia that is specifically reviewed through the lens of the modern user - in other... Continue Reading »

If you have been on HPC:Factor for long enough, you will be well aware that for Windows CE 2.11 and higher devices there is a limit of 32GB for FAT32 volumes on CF cards. This limit does not apply to older CE 1.0 and CE 2.0 devices, which can only... Continue Reading »

It was the small hours of the morning some 20 years ago today that the sites formerly known as ce320 and SimplyHPC returned to the web as HPC:Factor.

The two sites that merged to become HPC:Factor had been through a crisis, and both sites had been offline for a couple of... Continue Reading »

HPC:Factor has worked with Scott Seligman, developer of many programs for Windows CE to release the source code several of his titles on GitHub.

The list of new open source releases now includes:

• Conversion 1.15
• FixKeys 1.0
• NewShortcut 1.0
• PalmPage 1.0
• Phyllis 0.47
• PowerOff 1.0
• Random Names 1.0
• SoundControl 1.0

The binaries... Continue Reading »