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Title: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: redrumloa on September 26, 2003, 03:09:28 PM

AROS is currently being ported to PalmOS. These PDAs are a perfect candidate!

Handspring Treo 90 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3049576589) on eBay.

[color=CC0000]Only $99.99 + shipping.[/color]

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: bloodline on September 26, 2003, 03:15:45 PM

if the shipping was free... I'd go for it ;-)

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: redrumloa on September 26, 2003, 03:23:02 PM

Buy one Matt and only pay me $99.99. I will give you free shipping.

I wouldn't mind getting one into the hands of the AROS team. If I could afford to donate one I would, so this would be the next best:-)

As a matter of fact contact me outside of eBay, just email me at redrumloa -AT- amiga -DOT- org
 :-)

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: redrumloa on September 27, 2003, 01:58:24 PM

Wow those went fast!! Yeesh! :-o

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: jeffimix on September 27, 2003, 04:10:04 PM

If I could get my Palm Dual booting, hehe, that'd be cool

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: cecilia on September 27, 2003, 04:25:00 PM

getting an amiga OS on those little things is a very good idea!
yeah!!! :-D

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: bloodline on September 27, 2003, 06:13:39 PM

Free shipping!!! :-D

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: Argo on September 27, 2003, 07:58:17 PM

They're all gone.... :-x

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: whabang on September 27, 2003, 09:02:48 PM

Quote

jeffimix wrote:
If I could get my Palm Dual booting, hehe, that'd be cool

 :roflmao:

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: redrumloa on September 29, 2003, 01:39:34 PM

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Argo wrote:
They're all gone.... :-x

I have more on the way, I'll post here when I get them. :-)

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: lorddef on September 29, 2003, 01:44:26 PM

how would you get AROS onto the ROM? Or would you run it on top of PalmOS?

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: redrumloa on September 29, 2003, 01:51:53 PM

I think they are making a hosted version that would run on top of PalmOS, like the Linux version.

Maybe one of our AROS members here can clarify :-)

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: lorddef on September 29, 2003, 01:54:18 PM

Yeh that'd be good.  I'm used to coding in Codewarrior for Palm OS if they want an extra hand, but I'd imagine they aren't using Codewarrior...

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: bloodline on September 29, 2003, 02:00:09 PM

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redrumloa wrote:
I think they are making a hosted version that would run on top of PalmOS, like the Linux version.

Maybe one of our AROS members here can clarify :-)

The Palm uses a 68k compatible CPU... AROS does not run hosted upon PalmOS, but actually runs the device natively! If it were hosted, development would be much furthur down the line.

If AmigaOS wasn't so hardware dependant, it could run on the plam too.

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: that_punk_guy on September 29, 2003, 08:31:47 PM

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bloodline wrote:

The Palm uses a 68k compatible CPU... AROS does not run hosted upon PalmOS, but actually runs the device natively!

I'm sorry but... I just have to say... KICKASS!!!  :-D

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: lorddef on September 29, 2003, 08:41:47 PM

@Bloodline

A repeat of my earlier question:

how would you get AROS onto the ROM?

I didn't think most palm devices were flashable?

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: Argo on September 29, 2003, 09:41:48 PM

How usable it is on the Palm?

Title: Re: PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.
Post by: bloodline on September 29, 2003, 09:55:45 PM

To get AROS onto the Palm you need a special program that uploads it into memory... I believe that one developer was able to jump to the AROS Kickstart in the Palm Memory and let it take over the device.

I believe there are special ROM flashing programs that will allow you to put AROS on the Palm ROM...

As to how usable... well it runs... :-) It opens a window :-) we have a touch screen device driver... but it doesn't really do much and no one is activly working on it at this moment in time...

I hope one of the devs who worked on it will post here :-)