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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: chris08 on September 04, 2005, 11:01:01 pm

Title: Palmos Emulator For Pdaxrom
Post by: chris08 on September 04, 2005, 11:01:01 pm

Hi there,
I've been trying to get a PalmOS Emulator to work on my C750, but haven't been that successful so far. I have tried to run: QPilot (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/zaurus/) and QPose (http://www.climov.com/zaurus/qpose/) which limited success for the latter one. I get it to display a palm screen in the top left corner (doesn't magnify) and it runs very slowly (about 1/10th of the speed of my palm III). In addition to that, it only runs in Qtopia, and I have changed to pdaXrom some time ago. Has anyone compiled POSE (http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/) or any other palm emulator for pdaxrom?
Thanks
chris

Title: Palmos Emulator For Pdaxrom
Post by: miskinis on March 23, 2006, 11:13:32 am

Getting POSE to run on pdaXrom would be useful for some things.  Unfortunately
a PalmOS ROM file is needed to run POSE.  This was not a problem for me, since
I own a few Palm devices, and was a "registered" developer a while back.

I have a renewed interest in this, as I may embark on converting "Space Trader"
to a native (LINUX/X11) version for the Zaurus.  If I get addicted to the game, I'd
like to be able to play it on my Zaurus until the conversion becomes solid.

This topic has never been addressed, and I figured I'd bring it up again...  

John

Title: Palmos Emulator For Pdaxrom
Post by: LupoLupo on March 24, 2006, 02:47:10 am

Oh YES OMG a palmos emulator would be freaking awesome. Please please please with sugar and cream on top. Please someone capable try compile pose or copilot. please please please.

FixiFoxiLupo

Title: Palmos Emulator For Pdaxrom
Post by: chris08 on March 24, 2006, 04:10:43 am

Glad you could join;) Really, a palmos emulator would be great. Think of the 10'000s of pda-tailored applications that are available already...

Greetings
Chris

Title: Palmos Emulator For Pdaxrom
Post by: miskinis on March 24, 2006, 04:37:17 am

Hi,

Just keep in mind that I would expect it to run real slow, and eat battery real
fast, based on my past experiences using POSE on a p133, and even
a Sparc.  And, I tried compiling it many years ago, on a P200 w 32MB RAM,
and finally aborted the build after almost two days.  I was later told that the low
amount of RAM I had, was the main factor in the slowness of build process.

The POSE architecture may have changed since then, but those were my experiences!

John

Title: Palmos Emulator For Pdaxrom
Post by: Darth_Sith on November 02, 2006, 04:10:02 am

UPPPPPPP!

Title: Palmos Emulator For Pdaxrom
Post by: bam on November 02, 2006, 04:20:02 am

space trader would be great, I believe someone else is also trying to port it as well.

Title: Palmos Emulator For Pdaxrom
Post by: ZDevil on November 02, 2006, 04:25:38 am

Space Trader is also my No.1 favourite game when I was using Palm years ago. A native linux port would be terrific!!