Seeing that the "Palm Certified" label - it promised that one OS would run an all certified devices - has been reduced to only Palm in terms of cross-compatibility and cross-platform support and standard dev tools, I wonder. I HOPE that is why Palm invented the OS licensing part. Reality: Again, if you're not running Windoze, Sony and Handera are out of the picture. Why? They make their own emulators (Keith's free code slightly modified), in Sony's case per model, and they only run on 'doze, because they can't handle anything close to Keith's efforts (The very beauty in here lies in the cross-platform capability which was part of the vision at some time). The licensing of the OS led to so much trouble in the long run, that it seems hardly worth it. The fact is, we don't write for one platform anymore. There are HS, Sony, Trg (oops) and many more. The premise has been broken, at least for "Palm Certified". Everyone has their own twiddley-bit. The problem although lies not only with "the others". It is clearly visible, that Palm itself reacts too slowly to opportunities its own platform creates. For Palm to allow this straying from the original path was a decision made by executives hunting for money - fast money. It corrupted the base and TRG is part of a pattern. Sony in its current implementation is too, but shit grows on a compost heap. Not even two years ago it was fine to develop for the Palm. Cool. You had the tools - that was it. What a different world now. Handsoring always finds ways to break your code, Sony has their own emulators for every machine, trg thinks it is a good idea to asymmetrically enlarge the screen resolution. Is everybody going nuts? Money, money, money. We are the new serfs when we actually bother to acknowlede a device like the 330. Market dictates - yeah. In this case it doesn't.
Thx, -- Arthur Roolfs RoGame Software http://www.rogame.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
