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Palm OS Programming

Posted by CDR700 [send private reply] at November 19, 2002, 06:00:40 PM

I was just wondering how programming on the Palm Operating System works.is it something like Psion and are there SDK's avalible ?

Just wondering.

Posted by mop [send private reply] at November 19, 2002, 06:03:58 PM

yes. Waba is the best of them.
http://www.wabasoft.com/
apparently now you can program gameboys with it too.

(not to be confused with the World Allience for Breastfeeding Action)

Posted by ItinitI [send private reply] at November 20, 2002, 09:24:53 PM

Really?! You can program GameBoys with it??

Posted by CDR700 [send private reply] at November 21, 2002, 10:41:20 AM

Are Gameboys those things that became popular in the drak ages of Pokemon popularity among young teenagers and little kids?

Posted by whizkide [send private reply] at November 21, 2002, 01:15:23 PM

how exactly do you program game boys with it. ill check out the site though. that'll be fun

Posted by regretfuldaydreamer [send private reply] at November 21, 2002, 02:16:03 PM

When you say "program game-boys" do you mean program for emulators?

Posted by RedX [send private reply] at November 21, 2002, 04:27:18 PM

It's possible to make your own game boy cartriges. There are plenty of sites about this.

Elektuur (A dutch magazine about electronics, It is published in several other languages as well) has published an article about an digital oscilloscope in a gameboy cartrige several months ago.

It's quite possible to create a cartrige that can be programmed with a computer and then used in a gameboy.

Posted by DragonWolf [send private reply] at November 22, 2002, 05:56:02 AM

Its been possible to program for gameboy for a long time now, though when I had a look at it, it was all GameBoy assembly.

Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at November 22, 2002, 05:59:42 AM

Except that because the original gameboys had a Z80 chip in them to do the heavy lifting, "GameBoy assembly" is really Z80 assembly

Posted by DragonWolf [send private reply] at November 22, 2002, 06:00:54 AM

hehe I only had a look ^^ didn't actually research it any ^^

Posted by ItinitI [send private reply] at November 23, 2002, 01:28:12 PM

Yeah, your right, I guess it would be possibly to program a gameboy game, I do remember the rumers about 'Pokemon Go Go', which in reality just a 'Kirby's Dreamland' cart that had Kirby replaced with Pikachu.

Posted by regretfuldaydreamer [send private reply] at November 23, 2002, 04:35:25 PM

HeHe

That was a lethal game(Kirby, not pokemon)

Posted by AnyoneEB [send private reply] at November 23, 2002, 08:37:51 PM

Mop: I'm interested in using waba since I already know Java and own a PalmOS machine. I'm trying to get it to work with Eclipse ( http://eclipse.org/ ), but I can't figure out how to get Eclipse to reconize it.

EDIT: Nevermind, I was pointing to a folder instead of its subfolder in my classpath.

Posted by ItinitI [send private reply] at November 23, 2002, 09:56:42 PM

Oh, yeah Kirby was a great game!! But, not a pocket monsters fan RDD?

Posted by mop [send private reply] at November 24, 2002, 12:28:56 AM

forcing cute little rodents into tiny balls, and only letting them out so they can fight each other! Thats just wrong, and not only that, some of the rodents were arguably smarter then people, or at least could power your house!

Posted by regretfuldaydreamer [send private reply] at November 24, 2002, 06:16:07 AM

I just never got into that whole pokemon craze, I bet it made Nintendo about 10x profit than any other year of their existence.(Well, Goldeney was fantastic as well)

I did however blend a number of pokemon cards together to make a "Wankey" card, which was a spoof of "Maankey" for a freind.(If you knew the story behind it, and you wee at that immature age I was at, then it would be funny).

Posted by ItinitI [send private reply] at November 24, 2002, 09:02:18 AM

Yeah, they probly did make alot of money that year, but Nintendo has actualy been around since the 1800s'. Apperently, they made soem type of game cards then.

Posted by DragonWolf [send private reply] at November 25, 2002, 06:27:22 AM

I think the Mario series made them the most money, though nowadays I just think the games are stupid.

Posted by ItinitI [send private reply] at November 25, 2002, 12:15:28 PM

Eh, Metroid Prime looks pretty good. But yeah, Ninntendo does seem to gear towards the younger generation, rather than mature type titles.

Posted by AnyoneEB [send private reply] at November 25, 2002, 05:57:02 PM

On topic, does anyone know if you can program PalmOS C/C++ without using CodeWarrior? (I just don't like CodeWarrior, I don't know why)

Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at November 25, 2002, 08:48:38 PM

yes. I believe there are people that use gcc cross-compilers.

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