Can Freeware Palm Progs Be Ported?

[Jon_J]

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/
There is also another program I'm interested in, but am not sure if it could be "converted".

Thank you,
Jon

[samxiao]

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

because the UI API are different

[bam]

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

[Jon_J]

Look what they did here at 1src
http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.php?...=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

[Hrw]

tried portabase?

[Jon_J]

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
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

Thank you,
Jon

[speculatrix]

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

[Legodude522]

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