With a powerful 144Mhz ARM CPU emulating a 33Mhz Dragonball they could have easily cut some corners and made something just 'good enough'. But they seemed to really go for it with tight code and a big hit right out of the gate. Madlads indeed!

@@JanusCycle Shame it did not account for those that access the bare metal tho. Then again the goal was to get _commercial_ software to work, which had to respect the API.

i've written stuff which's elf executables are smaller than that, id do it too

it is just an emulator. no dynarec. source: i am the DmitryGR

Where can I hear about the hacks you say NESticle used?

You're a pioneer-jester. Congrats hehe

If 7 of the DragonBall Processors just got together they could've just asked Shenron to make them more powerful to avoid being emulated and replaced.

And it took them three months to release the patch. Which was highly anticipated to arrive 'soon' by many in discussion forums. To be fair they were focused on their core market of general PDA users and did an outstanding job, but still.

Also kind of funny since Sony Clies had great audio and visual quality long before Palm did it, they even could use the ATRAC encoding like MDs

@@Sb129 I didn't think of ATRAC. Sony would of course use their experience with Minidisc technology when putting a decoder chip in their CLIEs. I will look at a CLIE one day.

There must've been a really good reason to put there the horrible low pass filter. Perhaps the sound chip was not well optimized and they had issues with battery life when running it at normal sampling rate? Anyone remembers whether there was a difference between before and after applying the patch?

You honour me with your kind compliments, thank you. Really glad you are enjoying the channel!

cool :)

I'm pleased you are getting a kick out of the channel :)

Thanks! I do think Palm should be commended for what they were able to achieve here.

I think that's the mark of a great hardware transition. The only people that notice and remember are the nerds that consider it in retrospect, long after it happened, and not because of the impact it made.

It was an odd time for Palm. Sony were advancing their handhelds with hardware supported multimedia features using Palm OS4. While Palm were focused on developing Palm OS5 for multimedia. Yet still releasing PDAs with only basic functionality. It's really odd.

Thank you. I really like Palm devices and Palm OS. I have a Tungsten T5 now that I'm exploring for a future video.

@@JanusCycle I'm eager to see this ! Keep on going !

I appreciate hearing that, thank you.

I'm glad your're enjoying, thanks for letting me know.

I recently watched through the series again after many years, really good stuff.

Yep, Bush Tucker Man is still worth a re-watch even today!

@@JanusCycle 100% Agree. top notch show top notch man.

Thank you

Glad you enjoyed :)

I agree, Windows runs surprisingly well on the Lumia for what it is, a phone from 2015. I really enjoy having Windows 11 on such a small device.

I really like your story of how the manager for the BloodHound Gang broke your Palm.

@@JanusCycle (sung to the tune of "The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm") THE MANAGER OF BLOODHOUND GANG JUST' STOOD ON MY PALM!

I'm glad you are enjoying these videos. Thanks for sharing your interest in them.

Thanks for the voice record button tip. I was wondering about that. I didn’t know that detail about WebOS legacy compatibility. Seems like quite a misstep. I do want to try a TX for the deluxe Palm OS 5 experience.

@@JanusCycle Yep and if you want a top notch palm device the LifeDrive is also an option, its main storage is a 4 gb Microdrive but you can replace it with a CF card and one bigger than it came with.

@@Sb129 I do want a LifeDrive. The catch would be that I like Microdrives so much now, that I would keep it running with one just to hear it working inside.

@@JanusCycle True, I do have another one "stock" with the Microdrive still in it.

Top bloke that Les.

With Ask The Leyland Brothers & Harry Butler all gone bush Les definitely dominated the charts

I have a Zire 71 as well, i'mma update you when I get a charger and a new battery

It's probably this palmdb.net/app/battery-prefs Good site for Palm apps.

I think I remember trying it, I believe I would describe the framerate as 'not smooth'

Ahh the Treo 650. The pinnacle of pre-iPhone smartphones.

I'm glad you enjoyed

Windows 8.1 will be ten years old next year! I do have a Windows 8 or 8.1 tablet, but I got it with no battery. I'd like to get it up and running one day. Windows 10 tablets may take a while to become 'old' and find their way to me. I do have a cheap Windows 10 tablet that I bought new. I used it in my Windows 11 computer video to install onto the Lumia. It's weird because there are no drivers made available and no mention of how to reinstall Windows. I'm not very comfortable with these new ways technology works.

t3 was a much better model. In place of a 320x320 screen, you get a 320 x 480 when you extend the unit. The graffiti area on the button is "virtually" on the t3 (they used the screen). So, graffiti could be hidden, and you write directly anywhere on the screen. Or you could go old school, and have the screen bring up on the bottom the classic graffiti writing area. When you did/do that, then you back to a 320x320 screen. The other advantage is that t3 had great support for "landscape" mode. I mean, flip the t3 horizonal, and in extended mode, you would have a 480x320 screen - and it was able to do a remarkable job of say displaying a spreadsheet. And also I used to watch movies and shows all the time. I had a PVR, and it could write to a dvd-rw. So, I would record say a week worth of shows, write them out to that dvd-rw. I then popped the dvd into my PC, and converted the video's to a lower screen res, and frame rate (15 fps). I then transferred all the shows to a SD card, and voilà! - a week worth of shows to watch on my T3. And in full mode (480x320), you had quite a large screen by that time frame standards. I had OFTEN stated that when they introduced their phones, I wanted a T3 as a phone with the screen. But, apple did that!!! And at that time Blackberry was oh so popular, so their phone models had keyboards. (I wanted a unit without keyboard - like the T3). but, the T3 in many ways was ahead of its time. A larger format pda, all touched based, and a screen that extends when you open/slide the device open. And sliding the device to extended is how mine was setup to "turn on". I used that T3 for a about 7-9 years. In fact after 5 years of hard use, a friend of mine who bought one at the same time gave me his unit (hardly used much - not like I beat the unit I had to death). so, with that near new palm, I carried on for about 4 more years!!! I miss that device, but I was watching shows and movies on that thing long before smartphones + say this youtube video stuff came along!!!

I agree, modern phones owe their UI design to Palm.

great guy!

The CPU was named after the character :)

He's on a different planet at the time.

Nice, great to hear from a fellow Palm collector :)