Thread: Run 30,000 Palm OS apps on your Nokia Internet Tablet
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2007-11-14 , 01:07
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Originally Posted by jmancine View Post
Yes, the software seems nice and runs well, but why so much energy into making old palm apps run in an emulator window on the nseries?

I'd rather see that energy go into developing/porting great apps for maemo.

I just don't get it, I guess. If I wanted or needed my old palm apps, I would be using my palm.
Well, realize that this is actually part of ACCESS's ACCESS Linux Platform. They developed it to be part of a new Linux-based Palm OS (which is different from Palm's efforts to make a Linux-based Palm OS). ALP is built on GTK (among other things) and designed to run on ARM processors, so they probably didn't expend much energy packaging it into a DEB file.