Browsing thur Palm Opensource and found that another opensource Nintendo GameBoy Emulator is under developing, it is call Mario, an emulator developed for OS5 with natvice ARM code.
Although it is still in early alpha version, but I think it is worth to support and try!
More screenshots can be seen here at sourceforge.
Screenshots
Heads off to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mario/ at sourceforge, try it out!
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Mario – Another GameBoy emulator for PalmOS
SDIO devices on PalmOS
I was cleanning up my collection of PalmOS gadgets last week, found that I actually have a few SDIO devices for PalmOS.
1/. Palm SD Bluetooth Card.
2/. Veo SD Camera.
3/. Spectec SD PDA Camera.
4/. PalmOne SD WiFi Card.
Looking back, I remember great demand from users for a Drivers for Palm SD Bluetooth Card on Treo600.
The Palm SD Bluetooth Card was released at the time of OS4, at about the time of m505 series, drivers was only released for OS4 devices supporting Serial profile, OBEX (No Audio Headset profile), OS5 support drivers was never released.
Until the age of Treo650, users also went back the same route of demanding drivers for PalmOne SD WiFi Card.
The Drivers of PalmOne SD WiFi Card only support Tapwave Zodiac, Zire 72, T3, T5, TE2 and even Treo700w, but no support for Treo650.
A hacked drivers by Cool Hackers exist claiming to work on Treo650 with lots of work-arounds, but I never was able to get it working on a Treo650…
Actually there are more SDIO devices like RFID reader, Laser Barcode scanner, GPS, better/cheaper WIFI Card, FM Radio Card, but most of them does not work in Palm as there are no drivers, I asked a few company who design them why don’t they support PalmOS, the reply was SDIO drivers are hard to develope on PalmOS…..
Although I personally do not have many knowledge to hardwares, but I think is such a great lost to Palm users that we can’t enjoy much of the extentability of SDIO devices on our Palms..where it was there since the year of 2000 with a m500….
Interviewed by a local magazine.
Introduced by friends, I was interviewed by a local magazine about GPRS/UTMS/WIFI mobile devices user in HK.
The interview was fun, we spend a few hours in Minnaya cafe, many new devices to try out, like Nokia80, new SE UIQ 3G smartphone, a few never seen devices, nice coffee as usual…
And the the Web browser which went open-sourced a little while ago by Nokia was GREAT!
http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/
Wonder is anyone working on it to port it to other platform like PalmOS? (I know LOTS of porting is needed, just dreammig…)
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New toy….Stowaway ThinkOutside Bluetooth Keyboard
I got a set of Stowaway ThinkOutside Bluetooth Keyboard (Dell OEM) last week at a very very fair price, it become one of my very special toy of the month….
The keyboard works so well with my Treo650, and my Motion Computing m1300 TabletPC..
Was thinking to get a good keyboard for my devices for long, and I have to say, this is the ONE!
http://www.thinkoutside.com/stowawaybt_product.html
Will post more about it soon..
Typed by the Thinkoutside keyboard on the m1300..
🙂
Deleting unwanted Service in WindowsXP
I was cleanning up my XP box as too many rubbish was installed in the system by users.
Some of the entry caught my attention, some software forgot (or simply don’t care) to delete themself after un-installation…
I think it is kind of an eyesore and hard to admin the system with these Junk in the Service Panel under Administrative Tools in control panel.
Google did the job!
In command prompt:
sc delete SERVICE_NAME
where SERVICE_NAME can be found in Right-Click->Properties->General Tab->Service Name:
My Palm Collection 2006 July
Hum, why not an update on the Palm collection I have right now?
Abacus
WristPDA
HandEra
TRGPro
HandSpring
Visor, Deleux, Prism, Platinum, Neo, Pro, Edge, Treo 180, 180g, 270, 300
IBM
Workpad 22X, Workpad 30X, Workpad C3
Kyocera
7135 Smartphone
Palm
Pilot Personal, Pilot Pro, IIIe, IIIx, IIIxe, IIIc, V, Vx, VII, VIIx, m100, m105, m125, m130, m500, m505, Tungsten C, Zire, Zire71, Zire 21, Treo650
Samsung
SGH-i530
Symbol
Symbol 1500,1550
Sony CLIE
S300, S500, S320, S360, N710, N760C, SL10, SJ20
Tapwave
Zodiac 2
Way to go!!!! 🙂
Changed on 20060712 0212
(Missed the WristPDA….)
WorldCup Fever – Fake LV/Burberry soccer ball
News from Mingpao:
In a raid of anti-pirate action by custom of Hong Kong, fake LV/Burberry soccer ball was found, it is believe that as summer holiday is comming soon and the current ferver of World Cup 2006, these products are aimmed for tourist in the period.
Photo and news from MingPaoNews.com 20060708 HKNews
I have personally seen many famous brand counterfeits around in HK, like LV toilet paper holder, Burberry pattern T-shirt with Ralph Lauren Polo logos on it….
I think these manufacturer did spend some time and innovation on their products (altho it is illegal)
But a LV/Burberry soccer ball? really out of my imagination…
It always popup to my mind, if they have such an innovation and skills of making a counterfeits product which they claims it looks so real or even better, why don’t they spend the affort on something new and better?
Of coz, with a country next to us that even Eggs or Soybean source can be fake, what else can I ask for?
Just my 2 cents….
Hack&Dev – Linux on Palm before Access.
As great developer/hacker getting their hands on the “Linux on Palm” project, other than just great progess of Linux and OPIE/GPE on Palms, a few funny “We didn’t know that!” has been discover, like:
TT3 actually has a Red LED
hackndev – Palm T|T3 Gallery
Debugger discovery
hackndev – SmallROM Debugger revealed
Oh, forgot to mention, hackndev is the site for getting Linux running on Palm devices, good progess has been made, altho not fully yet, but Linux was able to run on machine like Zire71, TC, TT2, TT3, TT5, Zire72, TE2, TX, LD, Treo650 etc, if you are interested, head of the image galleries to have a look.
No more tears – make your LD/TX stop whining
Just browse thur hackndev to check the latest status on “Linux for Palm” and saw this new hack.
Quote from hackndev:
I don’t know if some of you noticed it, but Alex released a nice hack to make your LD/TX stop whining … my TX is a lot happier now!
It is a tool for TX/LifeDrive user to stop the whining sound from the screen.
Head off their sourceforge project page.
Or the direct link whinehack.prc (1.0) here.
I personally don’t have a TX/LD to test it myself, but from sources claims it should work with all XScale CPU PalmOS, and may/should crash with OMAP/Sony Engine devices, you have been warn!
🙂
