PalmOS emulator ‘Classic’ demonstrated on video
By Will Park on Monday, April 13th, 2009 at 3:37 PM PST In Palm, Palm OS, Palm Pre, Videos, Web OS
Palm (NSDQ: PALM) was proud to show off MotionApps’ PalmOS emulator, dubbed “Classic,” as a means of run legacy Palm OS software on the Palm Pre’s brand-spankin’-new WebOS. From what we saw back at CTIA Wireless 2009, Classic does a fantastic job of recreating the old Palm OS environment on the Palm Pre. Unfortunately, we were only shown the basics of what “Classic” is capable of doing.
Today, Mobile Crunch has posted a new video that shows off exactly how powerful Classic actually is. Rather than running more tame PalmOS applications, the new video shows the Classic Palm OS emulator going full-bore with the 3D racing game GTS: World Racing. Classic proves, in this here video, that it’s fully up to the task of crunching all those 3D bits and pieces at a pace that makes for a smoothly playable game.
Classic will apparently only run applications designed for 320×320 displays. Apps specifically formatted for 320×480 displays are not supported. Classic will only run one PalmOS application at a time and won’t support HotSync. Sadly, GPS, Bluetooth, accelerometers and phone features aren’t in the bag for Classic. It looks like older PalmOS applications will be restricted to the Classic “sandbox.”
Find the MotionApps Q&A here.
[Via: MobileCrunch]
its a fake !! look at ! 4 icons in dock and its not the real battery icons !
Le_Boss calm down
. i think the battery icon is part of the CLASSIC app look. It doesn’t look fake.
ok , but why there are only 4 icons on the docks ? email icon is missing…..
There are a lot of palm users who would like to migrate their data, calendars, and games to iphone or something else. I noted that her video showed Agendus. She did not demo that, and said she was using the calendar. Perhaps she does not understand Agendus, or this was not her palm…THAT is strange, anyway.
It would be nice to hotsync and back up your stuff, as well as use things such as pocket quicken, for those who coordinated charges on their palm and then synced it to their computer-based Quicken. Maybe SOMEBODY will come up with this.
Palm is being very foolish by abandoning all their old customers, who may then migrate elsewhere (not the palm pre) if other emululators are available on other platforms….