Would anyone happen to have a CD of old PalmOS software? Preferably sorted, even better if a backed up website of many different publishers apps. There’s very little easily found on the web anymore, I used to have several different websites backed up on a hard drive that crashed. I’m attempting to restore my library and move it to more stable media, but having to reinvent the wheel is a lot of work that doesn’t need to be done, since many of the sites were already sorted and had information on each product listed with them already. I could always find a way to export the data and import it into the system I’m going to be using. Actually, it doesn’t need to be a CD, as I have a gigabit Internet connection, just FTP access to the directory would be sufficient. The more apps, and more information in the existing sorting (HTML file) the better. It’s a very forgotten operating system since the webOS days which never really made it onto handheld devices anyway. If required, I can reward the top two people helping, with either a Palm Tungsten E2 or a Palm Tungsten TX. The E2 has the traditional sized color screen, the TX is a Full color screen, with the writing pad a pop-up component of the screen. Thank you, Joe -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
Would anyone happen to have a CD of old PalmOS software? Preferably sorted, even better if a backed up website of many different publishers apps. There’s very little easily found on the web anymore, I used to have several different websites backed up on a hard drive that crashed. I’m attempting to restore my library and move it to more stable media, but having to reinvent the wheel is a lot of work that doesn’t need to be done, since many of the sites were already sorted and had information on each product listed with them already. I could always find a way to export the data and import it into the system I’m going to be using. Actually, it doesn’t need to be a CD, as I have a gigabit Internet connection, just FTP access to the directory would be sufficient.
I'd like to have that, too. In the Palm days I was a big fan of a word processor app (well, we didn't call them "apps" back then) called WordSmith. Been trying to find the application files for several years now. No luck.
You can just download WordSmith from the archived Blue Nomad site, actually. The latest .prc I had floating around my hard drive was 2.2.27, but that's the same as the more official one available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20061130021405/http://www.bluenomad.com:80/ws/pr... It's possible there's an even more recent version than 2.2.27, I didn't explore the archives beyond that point in time (I'm just guessing that I'd updated to the last one available). I don't remember it super well anymore, but WordSmith was the program I used when I needed to do something approximating real on the Palm. I think for text editing I mostly used peditPro. -Paul
On Sep 18, 2018, at 10:59 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Would anyone happen to have a CD of old PalmOS software? Preferably sorted, even better if a backed up website of many different publishers apps. There’s very little easily found on the web anymore, I used to have several different websites backed up on a hard drive that crashed. I’m attempting to restore my library and move it to more stable media, but having to reinvent the wheel is a lot of work that doesn’t need to be done, since many of the sites were already sorted and had information on each product listed with them already. I could always find a way to export the data and import it into the system I’m going to be using. Actually, it doesn’t need to be a CD, as I have a gigabit Internet connection, just FTP access to the directory would be sufficient.
I'd like to have that, too.
In the Palm days I was a big fan of a word processor app (well, we didn't call them "apps" back then) called WordSmith. Been trying to find the application files for several years now. No luck.
You can just download WordSmith from the archived Blue Nomad site, actually. The latest .prc I had floating around my hard drive was 2.2.27, but that's the same as the more official one available here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20061130021405/http://www.bluenomad.com:80/ws/pr...
Thanks!
It's possible there's an even more recent version than 2.2.27, I didn't explore the archives beyond that point in time (I'm just guessing that I'd updated to the last one available).
I don't remember it super well anymore, but WordSmith was the program I used when I needed to do something approximating real on the Palm.
I did a lot of real work on it, in combination with the Stowaway folding keyboard. I think I've still got that keyboard around here somewhere.
Joe, I found this Palm software disc on the Internet Archive. Not sure what kind of file organization it uses. https://archive.org/details/Palm_Pilot_Collection_Explore_the_World_of_Softw... Andy On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 10:54 PM Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Would anyone happen to have a CD of old PalmOS software? Preferably sorted, even better if a backed up website of many different publishers apps. There’s very little easily found on the web anymore, I used to have several different websites backed up on a hard drive that crashed. I’m attempting to restore my library and move it to more stable media, but having to reinvent the wheel is a lot of work that doesn’t need to be done, since many of the sites were already sorted and had information on each product listed with them already. I could always find a way to export the data and import it into the system I’m going to be using. Actually, it doesn’t need to be a CD, as I have a gigabit Internet connection, just FTP access to the directory would be sufficient.
The more apps, and more information in the existing sorting (HTML file) the better. It’s a very forgotten operating system since the webOS days which never really made it onto handheld devices anyway.
If required, I can reward the top two people helping, with either a Palm Tungsten E2 or a Palm Tungsten TX. The E2 has the traditional sized color screen, the TX is a Full color screen, with the writing pad a pop-up component of the screen.
Thank you,
Joe -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
How about https://palmarchive.com/files/ ? No idea if they have FTP but I’ve used apps like http://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/ to download all files from HTTP-based archives before. -Thomas F.
On Sep 18, 2018, at 10:54 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Would anyone happen to have a CD of old PalmOS software? Preferably sorted, even better if a backed up website of many different publishers apps. There’s very little easily found on the web anymore, I used to have several different websites backed up on a hard drive that crashed. I’m attempting to restore my library and move it to more stable media, but having to reinvent the wheel is a lot of work that doesn’t need to be done, since many of the sites were already sorted and had information on each product listed with them already. I could always find a way to export the data and import it into the system I’m going to be using. Actually, it doesn’t need to be a CD, as I have a gigabit Internet connection, just FTP access to the directory would be sufficient.
The more apps, and more information in the existing sorting (HTML file) the better. It’s a very forgotten operating system since the webOS days which never really made it onto handheld devices anyway.
If required, I can reward the top two people helping, with either a Palm Tungsten E2 or a Palm Tungsten TX. The E2 has the traditional sized color screen, the TX is a Full color screen, with the writing pad a pop-up component of the screen.
Thank you,
Joe -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
I may have something like you're asking for. I remember stumbling across a couple of CDs of "archived" Palm Pilot software in my lifetime accumulation of CDs. I just need to figure out where and which assortment of CDs it was in. My organization skills need work. LOL I'll see what I can find, but they probably do not have any software newer than 2003. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 10:55 PM Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Would anyone happen to have a CD of old PalmOS software? Preferably sorted, even better if a backed up website of many different publishers apps. There’s very little easily found on the web anymore, I used to have several different websites backed up on a hard drive that crashed. I’m attempting to restore my library and move it to more stable media, but having to reinvent the wheel is a lot of work that doesn’t need to be done, since many of the sites were already sorted and had information on each product listed with them already. I could always find a way to export the data and import it into the system I’m going to be using. Actually, it doesn’t need to be a CD, as I have a gigabit Internet connection, just FTP access to the directory would be sufficient.
The more apps, and more information in the existing sorting (HTML file) the better. It’s a very forgotten operating system since the webOS days which never really made it onto handheld devices anyway.
If required, I can reward the top two people helping, with either a Palm Tungsten E2 or a Palm Tungsten TX. The E2 has the traditional sized color screen, the TX is a Full color screen, with the writing pad a pop-up component of the screen.
Thank you,
Joe -- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
Would anyone happen to have a CD of old PalmOS software? Preferably sorted, even better if a backed up website of many different publishers apps.
Years ago a friend had a set of 4 CDs where every program was unprotected/full versions. I can ask if he still has it, though it's been like 15 years :-) - Ethan
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