{"id":37743,"date":"2022-11-28T16:59:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37743"},"modified":"2022-11-28T18:18:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:18:19","slug":"palm-pilot-emulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/28\/palm-pilot-emulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Pilot Emulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/11\/25\/23478396\/internet-archive-palm-pilot-emulation-games-apps-dope-wars\">Sean Hollister<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=33766061\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/11\/25\/23478396\/internet-archive-palm-pilot-emulation-games-apps-dope-wars\">\n<p>Yes, I <em>am<\/em> playing <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/palm3_DopeWars2.4.6\"><em>Dope Wars<\/em><\/a> on a Palm Pilot inside my iPhone. It&rsquo;s thanks to The Internet Archive, which is once again launching a giant collection of software you can instantly play on any web browser, up to and including your touchscreen-equipped phone. <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/softwarelibrary_palm\">There are currently 565 classic Palm apps in all<\/a>, including games, widgets, and even free trials from both the greyscale and color eras.<\/p>\n<p>And it&rsquo;s more than just the individual apps, too: the entire Palm OS is loaded with each launch, including its full selection of default apps (like the calculator and memo pad) and a working Graffiti touchscreen writing system. I cannot emphasize this enough: <em>you can reach out and touch a 1996 pocket computer with your 2022 pocket computer and it works like a charm.<\/em> It&rsquo;s a tiny interactive window into the pre-iPhone era, and what lived in the proto-App Store.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/26\/infinite-mac\/\">Infinite Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/11\/hypercard-on-the-internet-archive\/\">HyperCard on the Internet Archive<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/classic-mac-emulation-in-the-browser\/\">Classic Mac Emulation in the Browser<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hollister (Hacker News): Yes, I am playing Dope Wars on a Palm Pilot inside my iPhone. It&rsquo;s thanks to The Internet Archive, which is once again launching a giant collection of software you can instantly play on any web browser, up to and including your touchscreen-equipped phone. There are currently 565 classic Palm apps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-11-28T21:59:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"56e794af-583a-4006-9679-c89d44dfc704","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-11-28T23:18:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AVueUr1g6QAaWecidRN_HBA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[733,295,1127,346,299,96],"class_list":["post-37743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-emulator","tag-history","tag-internet-archive","tag-javascript","tag-palm","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37745,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions\/37745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}