Post by thread:[EE] Palm IIIe software development?

Hello everyone. Just got myself a Palm IIIe for a very low price to play around with. Was wondering if anybody had recommendations of software development tools for the Palm IIIe? Would prefer free, something in C and either windows or Linux is fine. Thinking of doing some stuff over the serial and IR ports. Thanks for any pointers. TTYL ----------------------------- Herbert's PIC Stuff: http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/

Hi Herbert, I think you have the tools you need here http://www.palmsource.com/developers/ Cheers /Ake Herbert Graf wrote: {Quote hidden}>Hello everyone. Just got myself a Palm IIIe for a very low price to play >around with. > >Was wondering if anybody had recommendations of software development >tools for the Palm IIIe? Would prefer free, something in C and either >windows or Linux is fine. > >Thinking of doing some stuff over the serial and IR ports. > >Thanks for any pointers. TTYL > > >----------------------------- >Herbert's PIC Stuff: >http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/ > > > -- --- Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer) eurosource, Brattbergavägen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden Phone: (46) 657 413430 Cellular: (46) 73 84 84 102 Company home: http://www.eurosource.se Kryddor/Te/Kaffe: http://www.brattberg.com Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe Automated home: http://www.vscp.org

On Apr 17, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Ake Hedman wrote: > > I think you have the tools you need here > http://www.palmsource.com/developers/ > > Hmmph. You used to be able to download a gnu-based toolchain for Palm development without needing to sign up for their "developer program." I'm not impressed; this seems like a big step in the wrong direction (OTOH, it wouldn't surprise me if this is the only way they could keep up with the churn in palmos versions and processors...) The gnu toolchain still seems to be available at http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/ BillW

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, John J. McDonough wrote: > There is a gcc with a Palm target, and some of the earlier Palm > programming books refer to it. It does seem to work, but I haven't > dreamed up that killer app to write. Citi Bank gave those away years ago if you opened up a little account with them for a few months. It has been sitting here unopened on the shelf ever since. I don't have a killer app for anyone to write but I'd dearly love to find a little app that would let me put a list of names down one column and have a number next to each one, every time I tap the number beside a name it would increment the number by one. Doesn't need to do anything more than that, really. I searched briefly for a simple scripting system that would make it easy to create something like that in a few minutes and didn't find anything. If anyone can point me towards a way to get there I'd be happy. I was hoping to avoid experiencing a whole new paradigm just to be able to do this. thanks > {Original Message removed}

William Chops Westfield writes: > On Apr 17, 2005, at 2:29 PM, Ake Hedman wrote: > > > >I think you have the tools you need here > >http://www.palmsource.com/developers/ > > > > > Hmmph. You used to be able to download a gnu-based toolchain for Palm > development without needing to sign up for their "developer program." > I'm not impressed; this seems like a big step in the wrong direction > (OTOH, it wouldn't surprise me if this is the only way they could keep > up with the churn in palmos versions and processors...) > > The gnu toolchain still seems to be available at > http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/ It's been a while since I've done any Palm development and my memory is a bit sketchy, but I believe the prc-tools only support the PalmOS 4 API. I have a vague recollection that if you wanted to use the PalmOS 5 API, you needed to use the tools from Palm. But for the Palm III, you won't be wanting to use the new API anyway, and if you are already familiar with the gnu toolchain, prc-tools is definitely the way to go. -p.

At 07:25 PM 4/17/05 -0700, Don Taylor wrote: >Citi Bank gave those away years ago if you opened up a little account >with them for a few months. It has been sitting here unopened on the >shelf ever since. One of those Ameritrade-type places was giving away a T3 with an account (not little...) We loan our old Palms to friends to get them started/hooked on the idea. {Quote hidden}>I don't have a killer app for anyone to write but I'd dearly love to >find a little app that would let me put a list of names down one column >and have a number next to each one, every time I tap the number beside >a name it would increment the number by one. Doesn't need to do >anything more than that, really. > >I searched briefly for a simple scripting system that would make it >easy to create something like that in a few minutes and didn't find >anything. If anyone can point me towards a way to get there I'd be >happy. I was hoping to avoid experiencing a whole new paradigm just >to be able to do this. Quartus FORTH. Simple? Yes. Scripting? Yes. Whole New Paradigm? You Betcha! ;-) Barry

On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Barry Gershenfeld wrote: > One of those Ameritrade-type places was giving away a T3 with an > account Heh. That's how I got mine. Alas, with the way the market has been behaving, it wasn't so 'free' after all. :-( The previous-generation palms seem to be great deals. Palm IIIxe's are readily available for about $30. Alas, this is probably a sign that there was entirely too much churn in the palmos product lines in those days. The handspring spinoff and re-merge has got to be one of the sillier things that has happened in the industry in a long time, and my wife's sony is orphaned as well... Hopefully, the consolidation will be a good thing. I don't WANT a palmtop that acts like a tiny windows system... BillW

Curious....first off, I don't own one of these, never had the desire to (so whats wrong with lots of sticky notes all over?) But...IS it possible to create a custom screen for these, say like a scorecard, and then transmit via IR back to a host? Anyone ever done this before? Also would require scribble to text conversion for notes related to the scoring.... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

>...(so whats wrong with lots of sticky notes all over?) No F3 key. If sticky notes work for you, great. But I challenge you to find the one that has that account number for the used parts warehouse...in Nebraska...that you found on the Web...four years ago.... ...and find it in 30 seconds. :-) >But...IS it possible to create a custom screen for >these, say like a scorecard, and then transmit via IR >back to a host? Anyone ever done this before? I don't see anything in that, which wouldn't be possible. >Also would require scribble to text conversion for >notes related to the scoring.... Built into Palm OS. "Graffiti". Barry