I share your frustration. It's the same even if your in the states. Palm hasn't approved my application for access to their "pavilion" yet either. Given that it's developers that make Palm successful (lots of apps), it's quite stupid of them to piss em off at step 1.
I ended up going out and buying a serial cable (USB came with the device) and uploaded the ROM image. You might want to try the latest POSE because it's supposed to let you transfer the ROM over USB. The instructions say to copy the USBPort.dll to the POSE install directory. There will be an option enabled after you do this to transfer over USB. Although the option was there, it didn't work for me. I have a different device (older) than yours, however. BTW: You mentioned Motorola assembler: When I got into Palm programming 6 years ago, I did all my programming in Motorola assembler using the ASDK which contained an assembler called Pila. Darren Massena promoted it back then but I fear it's out of date or just gone. Now that I've picked up the Palm again after a 5 year hiatus, I'm doing all my programming using GCC and the prc-tools. You can do inline assembler using asm() blocks but it's ugly compared to Pila. I guess us old mainframe programmers are the only ones who want to do assembly anymore. BAL was my thing long ago but even IBM writes their OS code using PL/S now, not assembly. Gary "WinnonaD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Howdy ya'll! I'm new around here and new to handheld > computing but an old-timer from the days of > mainframees ;-) > > I just picked up a Palm m130 last week and have been > getting to know it. > > I thought I'd like to write some simple applications > and downloaded a trail version of NS Basic. It looks > good on the PC (alot like Visual Basic) but I found > out the Emulator wont run without skin files (which I > found) and ROM images. > > I subscribed to Palm's Developers program but can't > get access to the ROM image files. As I understand it, > outside of the USA, Palm must approve membership > before the user is granted access to these files. I > tried downloading it from the m130 but can't get it to > work over the USB cable (I don't have a serial > cable.)I search the Net but couldn't find anywhere to > download them. > > Can someone explain to me why these files are such a > closely guraded secret? > > (I started working with computers in 1969. I earned my > living as a programmer from the mid-1970s to 1986. I > never did learn C :-( but have done some Visual Basic > nd lots of Motorola assembler since retiring from > programming.) > > I was trying to do a "match scoring program" for the > m130. The easy way seemed to be to creat it in Excel, > but the formulas disappear when it's downloaded to the > Palm. > > Since that didn't work, I thought I'd try the NS > Basic. Oh well, maybe when Palm opens for business > they will approve my application and I'll get access > to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ROM image files! > > BTW, I couldn't get Outlook Express to setup this > newsgroup! I hope these messages appear at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/palm-dev-forum/messages! > If they don't I hope somebody'll send me an E-mail! > ;-) > > Nice to meet all you guys! > > Calamity Jane > up in the cold northland! > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
