>I think the problem w/ the Mac simulator is hardware architecture. >While Palm was on the 68k architecture, Mac users had a simulator >and PC users only had the emulator. Now with the move to StrongARM >the byte is on the other end of the word and the PC users can get >a simulator but the Mac users will have to settle for an emulator only.
Exactly. We could theoretically put together a Palm OS 5 simulator for Mac OS, but it'd be big-endian and thus would be significantly different in the pragmatics of operation from a real Palm OS 5 device. Once simulation gets to be too different from the real thing, its value drops significantly. Given infinite time and money, it'd be nice to have a Simulator on big-endian platforms, but all things considered, faster access to other tools and features are probably a better use of our (and your) time. Of course there'll be an emulator for ARM-based Palm OS devices on the various platforms, so it really is just like before, except that the Mac OS and Windows positions are reversed in this matter. -David Fedor PalmSource, Inc. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
