comp.sys.psion.misc Google Group

Re: Yet more musings about a modern Psion

2008-10-10T17:39:37Z

[about the sliding keyboard design]
AIUI they still have patents on the sliding keyboard thing, and aren't
licensing it to anyone. But that was always a weak point in the design
anyway - reason why they broke down. A friend of mine had his HP200LX
for 8 years before I got my MC218, and was still using it after my

Re: Emulation

2008-10-10T10:14:25Z

Apologies; it didn't need that; it's the perennial conflict between Windows
(my PC) being case-blind and the Unix server which needs matching case. I
have renamed the file from PsiALife.SIS and you should be able to download
now. (Maybe that's why no-one has commented before but I've had several

Re: Emulation

2008-10-09T13:06:40Z

The page comes up fine, but clicking on the download link gives me:
Not found - 404
URL requested (/PsiALife.sis) not found
I assume you have an offline copy you could upload!

Re: Yet more musings about a modern Psion

2008-10-09T13:06:40Z

True. And for my preference, a combined unit is usually too small to
be a usable PDA, too large to be a phone, or both.

Re: Yet more musings about a modern Psion

2008-10-09T09:05:36Z

Psion is not bankrupt, they just stopped catering for our market. They
are still in the handheld computer business with specialized devices.
The Psion PDA's are surely covered by design- and engineering
copyrights, so if one were to make a Psion Series 8 that were
basically an iPhone/Android in a Series 5 shell then yes, Psion would

Re: Emulation

2008-10-08T13:36:55Z

I've had a play with XTM, and it's quite good, though it has trouble
running any graphical stuff. Elite's screen updates could be measured
in seconds per frame but it (the 256-colour version) looked very
impressive.
The Apple II emulator looks good, but it's unfortunate that they never
did a colour version for the Series 7. The Spectrum emulator is one of

ClipSwap

2008-10-08T13:36:16Z

Hello everyone,
As nobody else has mentioned it on here yet, I will: Omega Software
Graphics has released a new application for EPOC32: ClipSwap, a utility
that allows you to replace the default clip art in Sketch. Along with
the application, collections of clip art in colour and monochrome have

Re: Desert Island Games

2008-10-08T12:57:07Z

True, which is the behaviour on a standard PC screen or Linux terminal.
Though my eyesight is getting poorer, so I wouldn't mind if it had
bigger text with a scroll option as on the Osaris!
I'm afraid I didn't get chance at the time, as I was off line. I've
done so since, however, and found that I had an older version in the

Re: Emulation

2008-10-08T19:43:19Z

Certainly; it's at [link]. Please give it a
try first; I've never seen it running on a real EPOC device!
Cheers, Mike.

Re: Yet more musings about a modern Psion

2008-10-08T09:08:44Z

Hi there I'm quiet new on google groups.
I used to be a happy Revo user & never found back a equally handy PDA
The keyboard & big screen are still unmatched IMO. I now have a HTC
sliding one.
I'm still waiting for someone to buy the REVO body & put in up to date
software (windows), processor and screen.

Re: Emulation

2008-10-07T12:09:35Z

Ooh, where can I get it? I'd like to add it to the EPOC32 game
database if I may.

Re: Desert Island Games

2008-10-07T13:53:34Z

I especially like the way it does NOT scroll on my MC218, because it
doesn't need to
Did you actually click the link?
First lines are:
News
(10th January 2004) Nethack 3.4.3 now released.
So, my gess would be that the latest EPOC version is almost 5 years
old.
(note that 3.4.3 is the current Nethack version, see: [link])

Re: Emulation

2008-10-06T13:47:43Z

If it's this:
[link]
then it doesn't look like "short of running Linux on the handheld"
If I understand it, I would run this under Linux. Now, I suppose I could
be running Linux on the handheld, but in that case I'd be better off
just using the compiler for whatever distro is installed, and run the

Re: Emulation

2008-10-05T09:01:54Z

I didn't know there was a distinct "Classic" emulator and I wouldn't have
wanted to run it anyway. I've never played any games on any computer I've
ever owned...
(I did write a "Conway Game of Life" program for Series 3 and ported to
Series 5, but I don't think that anyone would consider that a "game". It's

Re: Psion Replacement: eeepc 901?

2008-10-04T14:20:11Z

I can agree with that. I wondered when I bought my Series 7 if my 5mx
would go into retirement, but even the 7 is no replacement for the 5mx.
It is, however, a very nice toy!