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?
It is basically a curates set of Amiga games, or as the creators say "consolised" Amiga. I'd originally set it up on my mister fpga and it is as close to zero setup on that as possible. Pc version was easy too.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
I'm always interested in projects like this. But how do I know this is not AI code? Let me explain, I read a lot AI produced code at work, when chilling on nerdy things I really wish I could read just human crafted code, for pure learning and joy, but as time goes on I've seen myself questioning more and more stuff, code, videos, even books I go check the publication date
Seems like most of the code (what you find in the first commit) is 25 years old [0], from 2001, and then there are a bunch of commits with some fixes and updates.
> Fast forward on the Memo key without a 5-way navigator
Devices without a 5-way navigator (e.g. the m515) had no fast forward
key, as To Do moves the cursor there. On these devices the Memo key now
runs fast forward while it is held down; selecting a lemming stays with
the stylus.
> Fast forward: the music keeps its pace
The simple music engine of the devices before Palm OS 5 moved on one
note step per step of the game logic, so with fast forward the music
ran four times as fast too. It now moves on once per frame, in the event
loop; the MIDI stream of Palm OS 5 has its own clock anyway
Where did you get that text? Seems like it's not up anymore or somebody push forced over that commit, although it appeared for a second in Google Search.
The latest refinement commits might be a bit more suspicious, bust most of it is a big commit of code from about 2001, when it was made open source.
From what I've seen, the guy that contributed some fixes some weeks ago, seems to write text that feels A LOT like written by an LLM [0], so maybe some LLM text filtered to the docs.
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.
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