In a world where the personal digital assistant (PDA) has become yet another retro computing system, it’s always nice when experiencing the software for such platforms can be done in a way th…
IIRC, it differs from an emulator in that it doesn’t emulate the hardware of a PalmPilot and run the PalmOS firmware and any apps in this emulation, but instead implements the PalmOS APIs in native code and runs only the app code in an emulator. In other words, it’s to an emulator what WINE is to VMWare.
I am a big Palm OS fan.
Is there any advantage using this instead of an emulator?
Apparently it is an emulator, with the exception that it can’t write palm os-created documents? Due to “endianness” incompatibility at the moment.
Sounds cool tho.
IIRC, it differs from an emulator in that it doesn’t emulate the hardware of a PalmPilot and run the PalmOS firmware and any apps in this emulation, but instead implements the PalmOS APIs in native code and runs only the app code in an emulator. In other words, it’s to an emulator what WINE is to VMWare.