A well-known manufacturer (we may not publish their name) has developed a x86 emulator with a special technology for PalmOS. According to this firm it “translates” the x86 commands to ARM commands and keeps more than 60 % of the original power. That means you can compare 400 MHz on a TC/T3 with 240 MHz x86.
Because of this new technology you can run Windows 95/98 on your Palm, so you won’t have to worry about software. You can get almost everything for free. Using direct access to a SD/MMC card, you won’t have problems with 4 GB+ cards, even on these old machines.
We got a BETA version of this software and shared it with some other testers. So we can present you photos of a T5 and a TC running this software:
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Thanks to c-j-archer for the T5 photo!
Unfortuanely we may share this program only with 5 testers (and we did that already), but we’re sure that there will be a public release soon.
What do you think?
Good!!
Fool’s Day joke !!!
Well, I cant verify whether it is fake or not, as I have not yet contacted Tam to see, but what I can tell you is that those photos do not appear to be doctored (there are alot of really hard to reproduce artifacts in them). This means that the photos are either actual pics of Palms running Windows 95, or they are pics of Palms displaying Win95 screen captures.
On a side note, someone wrote an x86 emulator for the PSP a while ago, and it has been verified to run Win95, so even if this is an April Fools joke, it is not out of the realm of possibility.
Bochs has been ported to PocketPC, so it’s quite possible. I’ll be kind of disappointed if this turns out to be true, though, since I was planning on porting bochs to PalmOS..
Disappointed? Why? Even if they have it working, I cant believe it works perfectly, and I would bet the Win95 port needs alot more work.
sure….haha…in other news: snowplow dealerships in hell today saw mile-long lines of customers
First, THIS IS A JOKE!! Even if there was such an app it would never reach 240 MHz (compared to an x86)!!
Don’t be disappointed or angry, almost every site had a joke yesterday
Nitron, you can be happy, nobody has ported Bochs to PalmOS, and it would be a great decision if you decided to port it. I think some TamsPalm authors can help you (alpha / beta testing, …), so please send us a mail:
tamog@gmx.at
alexander.gratz@gmail.com
Alex
Hi,
I can only add in that this was an april fools joke…the only one on TamsPalm!
Best regards
Tam Hanna
Very Good one!
Anyway, why on earth would anyone want to substitute the wonderful PalmOS with that… ? What a nightmare!
You got me, i was thinking i can firefox on my T|X finally. Maybe even play some starcraft!
Damn you and your lies, nice one
Great April Fool’s Joke!
It’s neat to hear about a possible Bachs port. Running an X86 OS natively (outside a VM) would be difficult given the lack of an x86 style BIOS on Palm devices.
As we move forward to more powerful devices (Intel has been talking about 1Ghz XScale processors) with a lot more menory and Linux based Palm OSes (whether from Palmsource or Palm), we should see virtualization becoming a distinct possibility. And, who knows, we may eventually see XScale support virtualization in the processor (LaGrande/Xen support) at some future time. We’ll have to see.
Great site, btw.
You got me
Hahaha…you’re terrible Tam
Hi,
I know, a friend of mine says that too =). Anyways, it was Alexander Gratzs idea, not mine. And we have sth even better next year!
Best regards
Tam Hanna
IMPOSSIBLE!!! How would the mouse work in this thing? How would you right-click? What about driver errors and such? IMPOSSIBLE!!!
It was a joke, please read the comments above. But it isn’t impossible. An emulator can emulate a mouse, so you can use the stylus as a mouse. Even the right-click can be emulated, for example by pressing a special button or holding the stylus. And you can use Windows without a mouse.
An x86 emulator isn’t impossible, but Windows 95 would be very slow imho, but Windows 3.1, old games and QBasic should work. And it’s no PalmOS replacement, just to run PC apps on a Palm.
Alex
Would be great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>It was a joke, please read the comments above. But it isn’t impossible. An emulator can emulate a mouse, so you can use the stylus as a mouse. Even the right-click can be emulated, for example by pressing a special button or holding the stylus. And you can use Windows without a mouse.
I hope this could be possible…. I need some PC programs in my palm…
Well,
if .prc can read or convert a .exe files then it could be done
BULLSHIT!
Instead of making a joke on it, make it happen
I agree if someone made a way for palm to run windows 95, that would be awsome. that would lead to it running windows xp performance edition. im running that on my pc right now, it runs smoothly with 120mb or ram! lol!
Hi,
to be honest: I expect it to perform like a 30-50MhZ 486…
All the best
Tam Hanna
did anybody actually try that with PalmDosBox?