Palm OS on Raspberry Pi

Nice to see I'm not the only one still fascinated with vintage mobile operating systems.

https://hackaday.com/2021/11/11/palm-os-reincarnate/

^ haha this is cool :-)

-Walt B

Wow!

That's some accomplishment to get it working on other chipsets....

Enjoyed using my Palms, Clie's, Handspring devices back in the day....

This is SOOOOO cool! Back in the day I couldn’t decide between PalmOS and WinCE. I ended up falling for WinCE eventually, but in the process I had too many devices from each side. To this day I still have some of my original PalmOS devices which I still care fondly It would be cool to port such framework to, for example, the Gemini, and then have a PalmOS HPC! So cool…

I had an OG Palm Pilot, then found CE and palm instantly spread making sense.

So how long until someone has a CE ROM booting natively on a Pi CE Geek?

Very nice find. I only tried Palm Pilot few years back.

I’ve booted WinCE 5 on my Gemini already. I confess it gave a very nice nostalgic feeling. The problem is that it was not native. I booted one of those x86 images on top of a x86 emulator. Speed-wise is was okay-ish, but I couldn’t find a way to add network support, so I couldn’t install any app. Not to mention that since it is x86, only .net apps would work… very limiting. It would be quite cool to have a CE app running natively. I remember someone here posted that was working on a special arm wine port to run WinCE apps on Linux/Android. I don’t know if there were any updates on that but it seemed like a nice way to go

Edited by ntware 2021-11-13 1:37 PM

ntware,

You must mean about winece
https://github.com/AndreRH/wine/tree/winece



It's cool you got Windows CE 5 on Gemini!

I had a Sony grey scale Palm (Loved it) and then when I was still working @ Compusa I bought a Tungsten E. When the Tungsten E first came out they claimed they would have compatibility with Wifi cards, which is why I bought it. Months went by and the driver never came out or support for SDIO cards in the unit. After that I never bought a Palm again. Felt kinda ripped off. But I cant be too mad, I got the Tungsten for like the same cost as Compusa was getting for. Think it was $200-229 ? I think I paid $80 for it.

-Walt B

This is cool, I have a few Palm OS devices it's a much simpler OS than CE but also has a lot more limitations. You can run Palm apps on the J720 using Styletap and they work pretty well but Styletap doesn't emulate the rest of the system so no access to the memopad for example.

fantablium,
Do you have a link for that CE version of Styletap? We don't have it in the SCL!

Thanks,

The Web site is still live:

https://www.styletap.com/product_winmob.php

There's even an Android version out now.

Does this run natively on CE ARM devices or does it require RedGear? ARM 2.11, 3.0, 4.x? Does the current 1.1.021 run on the H/PC or do we need to use an older target version?

cmonex was able to get it working a long time ago in H/PC 2000 with a few hacks, but it can work out of the box with RedGear:

https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=18868&posts=2

I was about to point exactly to this thread