today at 9:10 PM
Hi, I literally found an old SD card with files last modified from 2005 with a few palm games from then, would anyone find these useful for reverse engineering?
today at 10:01 PM
Dump them somewhere... the Internet Archive maybe? A lot of Palm stuff is bit rotting. We need it saved.
today at 7:03 PM
This README is begging for historical context and commentary.
today at 8:31 PM
I can't help but agree with you
today at 7:03 PM
Yeah Aaron is a PalmOS legend.
I really liked the palmos c libs, MemCopy and WinCopyBitmap just reads so much nicer than memcpy and memset. Also UInt8 and UInt16:)
Those were fun times, when 16bit ints were enough for everyone (just kiding;)
today at 8:19 PM
Interestingly he removed some of his clones (Mario brothers and others) on the request of Nintendo. Maybe his clones were too close to the real thing.
today at 7:31 PM
There was also a version of Lemmings on the HP48 calculator: <https://www.hpcalc.org/details/530> (incidentally by the same author as Alpha Waves, a.k.a. Continuum)
today at 9:40 PM
Let me just get my Palm Pilot out so I can play...
today at 9:44 PM
I loved my palm pilots so much!
today at 10:35 PM
I played Lemmings so much I may be porting it to Swift
Hold my beer...
today at 8:55 PM
This is awesome, I wish I had it for my Treo.
I love and miss PalmOS. My current iPhone I can’t wait to get rid of it. It’s half owned by other companies, phoning home in the background all the time, addictive. My Palm devices really felt like mine.
today at 9:28 PM
Palm OS, not PalmOS.
Let's not forget nor confuse history.
today at 10:02 PM
And it is certainly never palmOS ;)
today at 10:06 PM
does anyone else encounter github failing to load dark theme on first load, but working fine after page reload?
today at 6:29 PM
I never quite got into Lemmings (Worms was more my thing) but I love these pieces of software for limited hardware of the day such as Palm, Windows CE, or Newton.
Edit// Oh this guys profile is full of cool Palm OS stuff.
today at 6:34 PM
Aaron was/is quite the coder. I used to belong to a group he was in as well. Learned a lot. Also took it as a challenge to crack his palm programs :) and he learned techniques to thwart us lol.
Fun guy.
today at 8:58 PM
Hey there helf! I remember you from the #palmchat era. I went by irq back then too
today at 8:36 PM
He sounds great! I love these characters that you find in programming. My niche is more Mac Os System 7 -OS 9 and Be OS but the same sort of people exist in those realms too.
today at 7:57 PM
aaron also did the Deity3D engine for palmos that was a FPS doom-like. I think the engine was later used for Master Thief 3D which was an incredible game for PalmOS.