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Title: Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?
Post by: Jon_J on February 16, 2006, 03:07:09 pm

I used several searches, and when I just used the one word, "palm" I came up with about 50 pages. I wish there was a way to search within a search.
Anyway, is there any way to "convert" a freeware software that runs on a Palm into a linux executable? Most Palm soft is in a PRC file. One program in particular, which I would love to see work on a Zaurus is "PilotDB" It's small, fast and handles large databases really well.
http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/ (http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/)
There is also another program I'm interested in, but am not sure if it could be "converted".

Thank you,
Jon

Title: Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?
Post by: samxiao on February 16, 2006, 03:12:52 pm

i dunno about their architecture for this software
but probably require a lot work

because the UI API are different

Title: Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?
Post by: bam on February 16, 2006, 03:16:22 pm

yea, Space Wars would rock! (alot like Drug Wars)

Title: Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?
Post by: Jon_J on February 16, 2006, 03:23:26 pm

Look what they did here at 1src
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?...=picsel+browser (http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?t=88200&page=1&pp=15&highlight=picsel+browser)

A very long thread, but they managed to get this from a phone and made it work on a palm.
Takes a lot of fiddling, but once it's installed and accelerated, it works fantastically

Jon

Title: Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?
Post by: Hrw on February 16, 2006, 04:07:06 pm

tried portabase?

Title: Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?
Post by: Jon_J on February 16, 2006, 04:36:45 pm

I tried portabase. It didn't open my files very well
I posted about this last month.
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17325 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17325)
post # 4
I'm now using CSVview. I have to save my Excel files on my desktop to *.csv then they open in CSVview.
http://free.pages.at/uberger/zaurus/csvview_en.html (http://free.pages.at/uberger/zaurus/csvview_en.html)

Thank you,
Jon

Title: Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?
Post by: speculatrix on February 22, 2006, 12:48:26 pm

with Access doing linux emulation, it won't be long till there's a good chance there will be a fast palm 68k emulator!

Title: Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?
Post by: Legodude522 on February 24, 2006, 07:06:46 pm

This might help in finding open source Palm OS apps.
http://www.palmopensource.com/ (http://www.palmopensource.com/)