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XBill for PalmOS receives an update after 25 years (ctrl-c.club)
90 points by zdw on Sept 25, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


2024 is truly shaping up to be the year of Palm OS on the desktop :)


The "why this needed to happen" has no reasonable answer. This is an act of love and dedication to a platform. Respect!


Poor Bill. Today we have other people deserving their little game. I was wondering about a version showing a well known popular guy riding his rocket Dr. Strangelove style from device to device, trying to sneak in X in place of Mastodon subscriptions. Being really poor at anything related to graphics, I'll leave the idea to others to implement if they like it.


ASCII graphics is fine :-)


> Poor Bill. Today we have other people

Bill is a pioneer. Musk, Bezos, (Google, Apple, Cloudfare staff) are small children compared to him. /s


Anyone able to contact the original author of the program?


I did once, and got a reply, but it was like 25 years ago.


> Anyone able to contact the original author of the program?

Why ? It is not eating enough memory ? Does not have a "Material Design" UI/U(i)X ?

(i) from inexperience


To let them know what was done.




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