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[Monty]

Any of you techies out there know of any software that will allow me to run an application written for the Palm OS under WindowsXP??

I can get an application which will allow me to calculate what jets the TZ needs from the pressure/temp/humidity readings my weather station gives-but-it runs on a palm. Since I already have a laptop, Psion Series 5MX, and a PocketPC palmpilot I am a bit reluctant to buy yet another handheld device.

John

[guest1]

Originally posted by Monty
Any of you techies out there know of any software that will allow me to run an application written for the Palm OS under WindowsXP??

I can get an application which will allow me to calculate what jets the TZ needs from the pressure/temp/humidity readings my weather station gives-but-it runs on a palm. Since I already have a laptop, Psion Series 5MX, and a PocketPC palmpilot I am a bit reluctant to buy yet another handheld device.

John

John if you have the calc then it should be easy enough to knock up either an excel front menu or a smallish vb app. Post the formula?
I'm sure some of the other techies on here should have knowledge on other applications that could do the job.

I put a couple of pda apps on my daughters login and they worked kind-of OK, but did tend to lock up from time to time.

[Monty]

Thanks for the reply Alan, I haven't purchased the software yet, was kind of hoping there may be a converter or synthesiser out there somewhere which would let Palm apps run under windows.
The software is only $50 so not expensive but I would be chucking the money away if I can't get it to run under windows.

John

[yellow916]

John

You could look at the following:

http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/tools/emulator/
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/9658
http://depts.washington.edu/hswork/w.../emulator.html

If you do a Google search on "Palm Emulators" you'll get about 350k hits!

Hope this helps

Andrew

[yellow916]

John

I just had a look at the emulator on the Palmos site - I can get a passsable image of a Palm PDA on the PC screen, and all the basic functions seem to work (setting date and time, Notes, Calculator etc). I reckon it might do what you want (it's free to try out, anyway). The only problem might be getting the application in a suitable format. I've never purchased a programme for a PDA - do they come on a CD or something? I think the file type is .prc.

Hope this helps

Andrew