I was a palm nut before I bought the Nokia. I was ready to give up on Palm. (Anyway, that is another story).

So, I have loaded garnet on my n800 and have used it for a couple of weeks. The Nokia syncs with my mac over wi-fi using missing sync. Frankly, if garnet had been available 3 months ago, I would not be the dubiously proud owner of an iphone. Such as it is though, I sync and overwrite the calendar, and contacts. It does not hurt to have a back up, and a back up of a back up and so on.

I have found that many of the applications that I used before work with a few exceptions. The only problem with the exceptions is that they crash garnet so hard that all of the loaded palm apps are deleted.

So these are applications that I have paid for in the past 4 years or so and work.

Astraware games:
Bejewled
Bookworm (my favorite of the Astraware games)
Sudoku
TextTwist

My favorite freeware title HandyShopper works. I have an extensive grocery list built up over the years and the way HS manages the lists is great.

Handmark Scrabble, the early version, works great.

I am pleased that Oxford Dictionary, the latest version, works. However, I only had the old version downloaded and it crashed garnet, erasing all of the palm apps.

Splash Money appears to work. However, I have not tried to do much with it until I can be sure garnet is stable - as it was erased once again last night with my attempt to load Good Fortune, a really cute, rather sophisticated fortune cookie app.

Two other nice programs that were not too cheap also do not work, but do not crash quite so badly. Pennovate Notes and CalenNotes do not work. Still, now that the window area is so small, it is difficult to write there.

kady,

That's a really cool list. Have you provided ACCESS the feedback they request through their compatibility page?

http://www.access-company.com/produc.../feedback.html

My working apps are:
Bang! - Astraware game
Bike or Die - Another game. This one uses CPU on the N800 though
FileZ - utility
kMeteo - downloads/shows weather info
Lufthansa - Time table application from Lufthansa
Timesheet - Timesheet program
PiLoc - Tool to replace localisation info. Tool runs, but can't replace loc info.
MBConnect (aka AGConnect) - AvantGo sync program, downloads from sync.avantgo.com

Doesn't work:
AvantGo itself - crashes GVM
Any program so far that requires mathlib.prc

(I've had a few others running too but they're not currently installed)

All reported to access' feedback page.

[QUOTE=aflegg;101922]kady,

That's a really cool list. Have you provided ACCESS the feedback they request through their compatibility page?



I have submitted feedback forms. I have not heard back from them. It would be nice if they had some kind of email bot that acknowledges receipt.

Thanks!

i'm having the same erase problem. i loaded garnet for the 810 on my 800 with 2008 on it. i was able to sync what appeared to be all my programs and data from my clie version of palm and most of them worked, including
metro,
scx,
currency,
bigclock,
stop3watch,
powerone.
i have forgotten now which, but some program (?avantgo?) caused a catastrophic crash and all the palm program icons disappeared from the selection screen. resyncing however did not bring them back, though the programs on both the pc and the n800 showed them all be synced. thinking there might be problem with garnet i removed it and installed it again (after rebooting) and re-resynced. no luck.
i noticed you're implication in your post you were able to resync and have the icons reappear. is there a futher step i need to take? like clear old data from the n800?

I finally put all of the applications that work in a folder on my sd card. Then I reinstalled them at least 3 or 4 times as I figured out which worked and which did not. I was getting pretty annoyed.

I did not resync, as whenever missing sync tries to backup or restore from back up, it crashes. I think that avant go is one of the programs that does not work.

alslayer:

Check wowio.com. You might be able to get your Star Trek books in pdf format there, for free, of course.

kady: Avantgo doesn't work, but it doesn't damage the installation either. However Pocketsat+ (and possibly others) which requires mathlib.prc totally wrecked my GVM installation. There's some suspicion that maybe in fact no application which requires an extra library .prc will work at all - I haven't been able to confirm this yet, but unless AGConnect (which actually works fine) doesn't use libmal then I don't have any application currently installed that uses a 3party library. Will have to do some research on this - it would be a major bummer.

My alltime favourite Palm app is mirror.prc. Its depth of possibilities, intricacies of design and permeating use of PalmOS's features are a joy to the eye. I cannot wait to run it on my N800.


<extremely deep sarcasm smiley deleted to prevent vision damage>

Yes, use the 810. The 800 still seems to be based on OS2007 and will not install with OS2008.