Hi,
This is a question I posted on the tools-forum list a few days ago, but I was hoping the larger traffic on this list might help me make some progress. Basically, I'm new to OS5 and PalmSim, and I'm embarrassed to ask for help with this but I'm having trouble getting started. I'm using Win98 on a fairly old machine (AMD proc, 500MHz). A responder via tools-forum suggested I use Windows 2000 or XP, but this is not an option for me, and the PalmSource page on the simulator says it's tested on 98.
The original PalmSim 5.0 back in 2001 was tested on Windows 98, but PalmSource has not been using that OS version for development for several years, and we currently actively recommend that people use Win2000 or Windows XP; we are not testing with older versions of the OS anymore.
You might just want to stick to the Palm OS Emulator for most of your development and do OS 5 testing on a device. I don't know why it would hang on the older OSes, but it does use Win32 threading internally, and its possible that there are deadlocks that could happen on Win98 due to its treading model that would be avoided on the more robust Win2000/XP platforms.
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