A few minutes playing around with the iOS version of processing js. I do hope that this app gets a few much needed updates soon.
Category: Tech
Technology. We all use it, we all love it. We all hate it.
A spectrum analyser running in the emulator
I really couldn’t believe that this Palm app worked under StyleTap, but it did, albeit a little slowly.
Wading through ZX Spectrum Music Apps
I’ve been trawling through these to see if I can find any that are actually useful or workable on my jailbreak 3G. So far they are all just a bit of a novelty and not too much more.
StyleTap does not like PixiLang and Sunvox
I wanted to try to get PixiLang and Sunvox working under StyleTap on my jailbroken 3G, but as you can see from these screen shots, StyleTap was not happy about them at all. Of course, I can run Sunvox native on the iPhone, but not not PixiLang, which is a shame.
Openprocessing as a source of inspiration and learning
I’ve been lurking around openprocessing of late, using it to find useful processing code to serve as a starting point for some of my own experiments. If you don’t know openprocessing, it’s a great place for inspiration and to see what other people have made using processing. You can find it here.
Java on StyleTap on 3G
Another small step forward is getting Java working on the StyleTap Palm OS emulator running on a jailbroken iPhone 3G. It should be said that it isn’t particularly useful although it is an interesting thing to do just to see if it works.
Trouble with RJDJ uploads
I’m not having much luck with uploading this recording to RJDJ at the moment.
Getting going with ThinkDB
ThinkDB2.5 is a very old piece of software. I think I’d lost my registration for this old Palm OS app, but I managed to find away around that. Even though this is an old app that doesn’t mean it isn’t any use, in fact, quite the contrary. As a little database app for Palm OS it is very functional indeed. To the extent that it even has a plug in architecture, although I haven’t quite remembered how to get that going as yet.
I’m slowly remembering why the Palm was such a great platform. Who knows, I might even go back to it!
Sinewave / Bacterium
I didn’t make either of these, although I think that I may have compiled them under HB++, a now defunct IDE for Palm OS development.
The Sinewave app was from Olivier and was meant as a learning aid for those wishing to develop Palm OS audio apps.
Bacterium was something that was being developed (I can’t remember by whom) and, as often happens, got stalled. Both late examples of Palm OS music making apps.
Getting the Tungsten C up and running
I remembered that I still had an old Palm Tungsten C which I’d bought from a friend ages ago, and I thought I’d see if it still worked. Of course it did, with one caveat, but I’ll come back to that.
The Tungsten C was an interesting device, with a full keyboard and large screen it is a very easy to use device, and it supports WIFI and bluetooth. However, the WIFI doesn’t support WPA security which makes it kind of useless now. However, it is still on the face of it a very handy device. That is until I decided to see if I could run linux on it, and then as you can see from the picture with the stripey lines, it didn’t really like it.
It restored ok, and seems to be working fine now. All I need to do is to work out what to do with it next!
I am Ashley Elsdon 