So if you didn't like StyleTap or thought it was too expensive you might want to take a look at PHEM. It's a lot cheaper and has some pretty amazing features too. Here's what you can expect ...
PHEM Features
- Supports black and white, grayscale, 8-bit, and 16-bit color. It even supports the Handera 330's "High Res" grayscale screen!
- Supports sound and (for versions of the Palm OS that support it) vibration.
- Supports multiple different "sessions" emulating different Palms - multiple models, multiple versions of a single model, or both.
- Allows you to use your device's storage as a virtual expansion card.
- Emulated Palms can communicate using your device's network connection (wifi or cellular).
- Supports cutting and pasting text between the emulated Palm and your device.
- Supports hardware keyboards if present on your device.
- Supports "skin" files that precisely mimic the appearance of particular Palm devices.
- Supports most Palm "Hacks".
PHEM Limitations
- Like MAME (which emulates arcade machines like Space Invaders or Defender) or NESoid (which emulates a NES game console), PHEM emulates Palm hardware only - a Palm OS ROM image is required to run.
- PHEM does not emulate Palm models with ARM CPUs (any Palm running OS 5.x). (If you require this, do check out the StyleTap emulator.)
- PHEM does not support IRDA or serial hardware.
- Some games and hacks that rely on undocumented hardware features may fail.
- Multi-touch is not supported on Android versions below Android 3.0 (Gingerbread).
You can find it on the play store, and you'll notice it's pretty cheap.
3 comments:
Curious if you can get MiniMusic to work with it. Beat Pad was one of my favorite sequencers to use with my Palm m505 and Handspring Visor. Wish they'd port it to iOS with CoreMIDI support.
In theory you should be able to as it supports up to Palm OS 4.2, but not OS 5 sadly so no bhajis loops. It'll be interesting to see if there's MIDI on it.
Doubt it'll come to iOS as Apple don't allow emulation in any viable way.
Very cool. Now if someone will just get rid of the crappy android interface completely and make it run the palm os ui. I hate having to hit 3 buttons when on my treo 650 it was only one!
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