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PalmOS Lemmings

65 points • by memalign • today at 5:56 PM • 19 comments • view on HN

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nkx1 • today at 9:10 PM

Hi, I literally found an old SD card with files last modified from 2005 with a few palm games from then, would anyone find these useful for reverse engineering?

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rickcarlino • today at 7:03 PM

This README is begging for historical context and commentary.

yitchelle • today at 8:19 PM

Interestingly he removed some of his clones (Mario brothers and others) on the request of Nintendo. Maybe his clones were too close to the real thing.

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blobbers • today at 9:40 PM

Let me just get my Palm Pilot out so I can play...

chuliomartinez • today at 7:03 PM

Yeah Aaron is a PalmOS legend.

I really liked the palmos c libs, MemCopy and WinCopyBitmap just reads so much nicer than memcpy and memset. Also UInt8 and UInt16:)

Those were fun times, when 16bit ints were enough for everyone (just kiding;)

jdalgetty • today at 9:44 PM

I loved my palm pilots so much!

NooneAtAll3 • today at 10:06 PM

does anyone else encounter github failing to load dark theme on first load, but working fine after page reload?

teddyh • today at 7:31 PM

There was also a version of Lemmings on the HP48 calculator: <https://www.hpcalc.org/details/530> (incidentally by the same author as Alpha Waves, a.k.a. Continuum)

user3939382 • today at 8:55 PM

This is awesome, I wish I had it for my Treo.

I love and miss PalmOS. My current iPhone I can’t wait to get rid of it. It’s half owned by other companies, phoning home in the background all the time, addictive. My Palm devices really felt like mine.

VCFundedGenYer • today at 9:28 PM

Palm OS, not PalmOS.

Let's not forget nor confuse history.

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ktallett • today at 6:29 PM

I never quite got into Lemmings (Worms was more my thing) but I love these pieces of software for limited hardware of the day such as Palm, Windows CE, or Newton.

Edit// Oh this guys profile is full of cool Palm OS stuff.

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helf • today at 7:57 PM

aaron also did the Deity3D engine for palmos that was a FPS doom-like. I think the engine was later used for Master Thief 3D which was an incredible game for PalmOS.