Aaron Ardiri wrote:
As for the ARM emulator, you can get it in the inside Track program from
PalmSource afaik!
where i grew up - dev kits were free.
palmsource used to give their dev kits and tools away for free; thats why
a lot of us got into the business to begin with. the fact that they require
registration/inside track to get access to janeiro really confuses me.
The times are changing.
I realized that when I attended PalmSource 2004: while Palm boasts about
20,000 software titles, a majority of them free, the developers'
conference are too expensive for freeware writers to attend. I think I
was the only one there out of about 800 participants in that luxury
hotel, and many were very surprised, when not horrified, to meet someone
who would write software for free, forgetting that one of the strengths
of the PalmOS platform is precisely this abundance of free solutions for
almost every imaginable task.
And to make things worse, conference slides were later made available to
attendees only. I understand PalmSource wants to maximize attendance,
but the information must flow in order to reach the developers. Seeing
slides from a previous conference did not prevent me from attending - we
all know it's always better in person.
PalmSource should realize its asset is its OS, not its conferences or
now its ARM Emulator...
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