When I was moving files from one old Palm OS PDA to another the other day I beamed them, over infrared! I have not done that for years! What a very simple way of getting things moved.
Tag: Palm
The old Palm Pilot, Palm OS and all that that implies.
MIDI experiments
For some reason I got it into my head that I should attempt to get a old Palm OS PDA to output MIDI into my Yamaha MU15 tone module and then record that using an iPhone 3G and Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer.
Well first off it didn’t work at all. I tried multiple Palm cradles, MIDI cables and was about to give up until I decided to try a different old PDA. Guess what? It worked first time. That is to say that it worked in terms of getting MIDI out of the PDA and into the MU15. After that the iPhone/MIDI mobilizer combo didn’t want to record from the MIDI out. The MU15 doesn’t have a thru port so I doubt I can get around that.
Anyway, the 2nd PDA was a success, but I still don’t know what the first one (a TRG Pro) stubbornly refuses to put MIDI through it’s serial port. I guess I’ll just have to do some research on it, but it’s not like it’s something I can contact the manufacturer about is it!
Just so you know, the TRG Pro is the grey device and the black one is the IIIxe which actually works.
TRG Pro
I was thinking about my old TRG Pro the other day so I put batteries in it and it fired up straight away. What a great old piece of hardware!
What am I going to do with it? Good question. I think I might see what I can do with it MIDI wise, and I might even connect it up to some other handhelds if I can.
More work on beepLAB
Don’t get too excited, this isn’t going going to be some amazing new Palm OS music app any time soon, and quite possibly not ever in fact. At the moment it is just some experimentation on my part and that’s about all.
Having said that, I’ve managed to get a few little things working in it, like a menu bar, and a little keyboard thing going. I will tinker with it some more as and when I have new ideas, and I’ll post up the results here too.
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.
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.
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.
The TC doesn’t like rDrum
I”m not sure that the old Tungsten C is quite as ok as I thought. I tried to run this app on it, and after the start up screen, this is what I got. Then the TC decided that it needed a full reboot.
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!
Another Palm OS app that I never finished: SliderOn
This app never really worked as intended. I should’ve finished it off really, but I didn’t and I’m not sure that it will get finished now. We’ll see.
I think there was also a video I made of this ages ago, I’ll see if I can find it and share it.
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