PalmOS PDAs cheap,good candidate for AROS.

[redrumloa]

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.

Only $99.99 + shipping.

[bloodline]

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

[redrumloa]

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
:-)

[redrumloa]

Wow those went fast!! Yeesh! :-o

[jeffimix]

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

[cecilia]

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

[bloodline]

Free shipping!!! :-D

[Argo]

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

[whabang]

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

[redrumloa]

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

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

[lorddef]

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

[redrumloa]

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 :-)

[lorddef]

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...

[bloodline]

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.

[that_punk_guy]

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

[lorddef]

@Bloodline

A repeat of my earlier question:

how would you get AROS onto the ROM?

I didn't think most palm devices were flashable?

[Argo]

How usable it is on the Palm?

[bloodline]

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 :-)