Hey, so, don't tell anyone, but I'm announcing PalmPilot emulation at Internet Archive for the holidays, probably next week. All the currently-working items need descriptions, so it's not quite ready. Don't tell anybody, OK? archive.org/details/softwa…

If you want to help with the metadata/descriptions, DM me or hit me up on a discord you share with me. And keep this between us.

@textfiles I wonder if I can dig up the game I was working on. It was a spaceship game where things move in real time, so you’d issue a few orders and it would take hours or days for things to happen.

@textfiles When’s drug wars

@textfiles I just found out the founder of Palm was the neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins, who started the company as a detour on his research path. Brilliant and fascinating person! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawk…

@textfiles Great to see a couple of old games I wrote in here (Pipeline Perils and Go To Jail). I wish I still had the source to give you the password to unlock the full versions. I'll see if I can dig through the binary and find them.

@textfiles Where is dopewars? Asking for a friend.

@textfiles We don't need no steeking emus! (srsly, great project!)

@textfiles I released the source code to my games recently github.com/ardiri

@textfiles Will there be a port to Newton?

@textfiles Oh my, the nostalgia. I still have 3 or 4 PalmOS devices in my closet (and one Windows Mobile Treo). I doubt the batteries on any of them are good by now, but I think I still have the chargers.

@textfiles I definitely will promise not to tell a soul even though it's on twitter 👍👍👍😄

@textfiles Wow! Will it be able to load my old, saved Palm backup? I lost some notes etc from back then that I'd like to recover.

@textfiles definitely don't RT this

@textfiles I would PAY to have the old PalmPilot "To Do" app on my iPhone/browser... has anyone converted that PalmOS app yet?!

@textfiles Fantastic initiative! Loved my Palm Pilot, backlit edition. I waited for it so I could Grafitti under the covers! ;) Such a pity the platform died. There were aspects of the UX that were better thought out than todays efforts. Like Psion, lack of connectivity killed Palm.

@textfiles Now I know why you didn't want to talk at SXSW. Oh well. Now I also know how Apple Inc beat the government to kill assembly-line workers at Foxconn. From my record, I wanted the money to go to the developers, not to /dev/null. #JustChinaSurvive

@textfiles So any chance of emulating their note taking app which converted script to text?

@textfiles It works well with Chromium on the touchscreen on my Pi. I can even write with Graffiti accurately with my finger!!

@textfiles I remember when I was like 13 and writing cracks for PalmOS mobile games using ARM disassembler

@textfiles I'm looking for the Grafitti tutorial game, Giraffe I think it was called. Is this in the archive?

@textfiles ah it;s already there, great memories

@textfiles great, will that fun drugdealer game work too?

@textfiles W

@textfiles My goodness.

@textfiles @Paul_IPv6 I’m here for it…

@textfiles Needs dope wars