[HN Gopher] The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in...
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       The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web
       browser
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-11-27 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theverge.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theverge.com)
        
       | NikkiA wrote:
       | No sign of LispMe!, how sad, I miss that scheme interpreter like
       | crazy.
       | 
       | Modern Android and IOS is ok, but Graffiti was a far more elegant
       | input method than lousy virtual keyboards.
        
       | tunap wrote:
       | Direct Link:
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       | https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_palm
       | 
       | Edit: The Software Library directory
       | 
       | https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary
        
       | furyofantares wrote:
       | There was a variant of the 15 number sliding puzzle[1] that I
       | really enjoyed on my Palm Pilot and have never seen replicated
       | since, except by myself as a hobby project, and I've long wished
       | to know who authored it and what exactly the original mechanics
       | were.
       | 
       | Basically it just had a series of puzzles that got harder by
       | adding special "walls" between tiles that either prevented
       | movement or performed a reversible transformation on the tiles
       | that passed through (invert colors, rotate by 90 degrees,
       | embiggen/shrink the tile, I don't remember the exact details of
       | the original game but those are the ones I used).
       | 
       | Sadly it's not listed here, I'm curious if anyone knows what I'm
       | talking about.
       | 
       | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_puzzle
        
       | malux85 wrote:
       | My first job was working at a company that made Palm pilot apps.
       | 
       | We sold sales force automation software, and had to do lots of
       | tricks to make it work in such low powered machines.
       | 
       | Things like it was too difficult to sort a product file that has
       | 200,000 items in it in real-time (E.g. to change from product
       | codes to product description) so we had the server generate two
       | lists each sorted and sent two over the gprs network to the
       | devices. (Infrared connection to cellphone FTW!)
       | 
       | As a young programmer this was the first time I was exposed to
       | the concept of algorithmic complexity and the possibility of
       | trading space for time. It blew my mind.
       | 
       | Here I am 20 years later still coding and loving every day of it
        
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