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95 points by memalign 9 hours ago | 23 comments

nkx1 5 hours ago

Hi, I literally found an old SD card with files last modified from 2005 with a few palm games from then, would anyone find these useful for reverse engineering?

HeckFeck 5 hours ago

Dump them somewhere... the Internet Archive maybe? A lot of Palm stuff is bit rotting. We need it saved.

RodgerTheGreat 3 hours ago

Check https://palmdb.net and if anything you have isn't already accounted for, submit copies.

teruakohatu 2 hours ago

Please submit to the internet archive.

chuliomartinez 8 hours ago

Yeah Aaron is a PalmOS legend.

I really liked the palmos c libs, MemCopy and WinCopyBitmap just reads so much nicer than memcpy and memset. Also UInt8 and UInt16:)

Those were fun times, when 16bit ints were enough for everyone (just kiding;)

rickcarlino 8 hours ago

This README is begging for historical context and commentary.

jamesforestwest 6 hours ago

I can't help but agree with you

yitchelle 6 hours ago

Interestingly he removed some of his clones (Mario brothers and others) on the request of Nintendo. Maybe his clones were too close to the real thing.

monster_truck 3 hours ago

Thankfully lemmings is much safer to port and have fun with, and is exceptionally thoroughly documented and preserved

thrance 6 hours ago

Looks like at least one survived: https://github.com/ardiri/palmos-maryobros

teddyh 7 hours ago

There was also a version of Lemmings on the HP48 calculator: <https://www.hpcalc.org/details/530> (incidentally by the same author as Alpha Waves, a.k.a. Continuum)

VCFundedGenYer 5 hours ago

Palm OS, not PalmOS.

Let's not forget nor confuse history.

HeckFeck 5 hours ago

And it is certainly never palmOS ;)

blobbers 5 hours ago

Let me just get my Palm Pilot out so I can play...

ktallett 8 hours ago

I never quite got into Lemmings (Worms was more my thing) but I love these pieces of software for limited hardware of the day such as Palm, Windows CE, or Newton.

Edit// Oh this guys profile is full of cool Palm OS stuff.

helf 8 hours ago

Aaron was/is quite the coder. I used to belong to a group he was in as well. Learned a lot. Also took it as a challenge to crack his palm programs :) and he learned techniques to thwart us lol.

Fun guy.

irq 6 hours ago

Hey there helf! I remember you from the #palmchat era. I went by irq back then too

ktallett 6 hours ago

He sounds great! I love these characters that you find in programming. My niche is more Mac Os System 7 -OS 9 and Be OS but the same sort of people exist in those realms too.

jdalgetty 5 hours ago

I loved my palm pilots so much!

user3939382 6 hours ago

This is awesome, I wish I had it for my Treo.

I love and miss PalmOS. My current iPhone I can’t wait to get rid of it. It’s half owned by other companies, phoning home in the background all the time, addictive. My Palm devices really felt like mine.

Kuyawa 4 hours ago

I played Lemmings so much I may be porting it to Swift

Hold my beer...

NooneAtAll3 5 hours ago

does anyone else encounter github failing to load dark theme on first load, but working fine after page reload?

helf 7 hours ago

aaron also did the Deity3D engine for palmos that was a FPS doom-like. I think the engine was later used for Master Thief 3D which was an incredible game for PalmOS.