> Does anyone have any technical OS details on the Visor Prism? Mainly I'm
> wondering how they work the 16-bit color deal if they're using PalmOS 3.5.
> Will color apps written for 3.5 on the IIIc work as-is on the Prism? It's
> not going to be a lot of fun if our PalmOS apps have to start taking special
> versions of the hardware into account too much.
if your app is written to use 8bpp - then, it will work with no problems
:)) as for the 16bit color aspect of things, PalmOS 3.5 does provide
support for direct color (RGBColorType) :P so far, people have only
been using the indexed based color systems (IndexColorType).
from a "technical" point of view, Handspring would just need to rewrite
the hardware layer that interfaces to the LCD controller itself. the
details of such a partnership probably involved Palm, and at this time
may probably remain under NDA if there is any.
from a "developers" point of view, it makes no difference, unless you
are specifically targetting the 16bit color environment. your apps
written for 1, 2, 4 or 8bpp would work fine on these new devices.
the tools will need to be updated to provide the ability to write
16bit color applications (tools like PilRC etc) - however, you can
do direct color in 3.5 already - and this would work on the new
prism if you changed into the 16bit color mode.
NOTE: the default display mode for the prism is 8bpp. :)
- if you want 16bit color, you must ask to change into it.
i could be wrong :) grab one and experiment :P
// az
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