Well it's been a long time coming, but now you can finally run your favorite Palm OS apps on your (jailbroken) iPhone. The good folks at StyleTap have taken that exciting demo we saw
way back in May of 2008 and turned it into a
Cydia-downloadable reality. As we said, you'll need to violate Apple's rules (and break Steve's heart) to get the emulator on your device, but once you do you'll be able to run Palm OS applications (compatible up to version 5.2), with support for native ARM apps, Audio recording and playback, virtual memory cards, and TCP/IP connectivity, amongst other features. If you've been hanging on to a Treo or other discontinued Palm product due to your sick dependency on a single program (or set of programs), here's your chance to break free. You'll also be breaking free of $49.99, which is what the folks at StyleTap are requesting for this pleasure, and keep in mind that if you upgrade using one of Apple's official number bumps, you're out of luck with your jailbroken software. Still, we find the existence of this to be totally badical, so hit the read link and bone up on your next purchase.
posted March 23rd 2010 8:11PM
Now let's get an iPhone emulator on the Treo... lulz
@Jon Rubenstein Or lets bring webOS to iPhone.
Just kidding.
@Jon Rubenstein
Glad to see your back! Did you get banned during the whole comment fiasco?
50 bucks is way too much dough for this... Ill just wait for it to come to the sinful iphone repo lol
Now all we need is an iPhone OS emulator for Palm OS and we're set to go.
@samin100
In Holland we say to someone like you: "spuit 11". Our parents also feed us pot on a daily basis
Badical... lulz
That should be in the next Webster's Dictionary
How quaint!
Jobs latest email revealed he was running 3.1.2, 3.1.3 is new and breaks some jailbreak maybe Steve use the community for his next "feature".
@RLBurkes His patent applications included jail broken apps.
I would not pay $50 for that....even if I could play classic Dope Wars:)
Steve forbids you to do this.
This is pretty sweet, now the iPhone just has to dual boot with android and have a windows mobile emulator.
Good thing I can officially use a Palm OS emulator on webOS. Cheaper too.
@roneyii
And the Nokia N900 have a Palm OS Garnet emulator... for free.
Does it multi-task?
@Marbles No. Palm OS does not multitask.
@Marbles
Jailbroken iphones multitask, yes.
I don't get it, if I wanted Palm OS, I'd just get a Palm
@malexandria1
Well, now imagine, you ALREADY HAVE AN IPHONE...
Forget breaking Steve's heart-Bust it open with a bat and set the pieces on fire!
If anybody is trying this out, download Space Trader. It's still one of my favorite games of all time. I've seen similar games here and there, but none that really grasped the open-ended simplicity quite that well.
@cwalters74
You have that desease too?
@qmartman711
PalmOS has millions of utilities... And most of them happen to be much more useful/interesting (and practically free) than the millions of farting applications that are made for iPhone.
@pretol
U kinda.....need anger management. i just had a little 5 yr old scream in my head caue of u. thats not cool.
Minus 1
Can you do Graffitti on a capacitive screen?
@CeluGeek yes sort of. The iPhone already has a graffiti-type input for the Chinese keyboard.
@qmartman711
This allows you to go back to the golden days of apps. When they focused on productivity and usefulness and not making fart sounds or having lightsaber duels.
Unfortunately it's more like a trip down memory lane rather than actual usefulness now. It's like loading up an 8-bit Nintendo or Atari 2600 emulator.
Man... Craving some midnight Berzerk action now.
@pretol millions? exaggerate much?
Wow. Now the iPhone has finally gotten another feature from Symbian circa 2007! Give em a hand.
Considering the PalmOS apps that I used are already available native for the iPhone, I fail to see the point of this, other than just because.
thats REVOLUTIONARY!!!!
YES!!
Man I use to love my Treo back in the day. Doesn't that app screen look familiar?
But the biggest question is: does it use palm.net's web-clipping service? ;P (Palm VII humor)
I just contact these people.
My email went like this:
"Cool,is what I original thought when I heard about your product.
But when I went through the purchase process on your site and saw that you're charging $50, I thought at first I had accidentally selected to buy a multi pack.
Are you out of your freaking minds?
IMHO, if you had chosen to charge $50 when the iPhone was relatively new, you might have had a shot, but NOW? That price is utterly ridiculous.
For 99% of people even interested in the now very dated Palm OS (which I dearly loved AT THE TIME) it would be as a nostalgic or impulse buy.
Your chasing away sales at this price.
Good luck though. "