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Fully working program without registration, for Newton PDA.
#Apple #Newton #PDA #WindowsPC

One of those domains, for me, was the #PDA by which I mean not a public display of affection but the personal digital assistant, a device that has existed for a while (and still maintains, even in these modern days of deterioration and the suffocating dominion of the "smart phone", a tenuous market presence) but which really swung into gear with the temporary popularity of Palm devices. I owned a few Palm machines in the late 1990s and very early 2000s, as well as a Sony Clié which I quite liked, and even poked around a little with programming for them. It was relatively easy to break into such hobby-work.

Thus when the #smartphone became a thing, largely due to Steve Jobs's appropriation of the concept as if he had personally invented it (a bad sign but I was willing to hope still) I was for a short time excited for what I hoped would be the opening of a brand new avenue for amateur programming. It would be like the PDA but better! more enticing, more broadly and commercially appealing, presenting fresh new challenges. I remember telling people that I was hoping for a renascence of small-scale programmers branching out into this new territory, akin to the Mac shareware crowd I'd gotten interested with in the 1990s.

Things didn't quite turn out that way. Maybe that was partly my fault. I was getting progressively burned out by #computing in general in the 2000s, having taken a massive emotional beating trying to work for Amazon dot com as a "#software development engineer" whatever the fuck those words actually mean in a field where the highest professional ambition seems to be collecting vast quantities of money for doing as little useful work as possible.

It's not as though there aren't lots of amateur programmers with the patience to make sense of the rather hostile (to my perception) landscape of #programming for modern smart phones. But I couldn't muster up the enthusiasm for it.

Many autistic adults shudder when recalling school memories.

But why do autistic people suffer so much at school?

Historically, it’s been framed that a) school is above reproach, and b) there’s always something wrong with the child who doesn’t manage, and not the environment.

Some are starting to question that.

A thread 🧵

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#School #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #EBSA #ABSA #PDA

I have made an irresponsible financial decision

#Tech #Technology #PocketPC #PDA

These 4-color #lcd screens are so faszinating. the #casio nx-6000 startet my love for #pda

The true S-tier mobile computing gear.
#palm #pda #retrocomputing

A Palm TX showing the application launcher and a Samsung E350 slider mobile phone open on a desk.

I have had the #DungeonCrawler 'The Quest' on my steam wish list for years. I don't know why, I've just never got around to purchasing it.

I didn't realize that this game started life on the #PocketPC. It is now running on my #WindowsCE #SmartBook at a glorious one frame a second.

While this game looks wonderful, this device is woeful. 😂

#PDA #RetroTech #RetroGaming

The title screen of the game Quest. There's a selection of options in the center of the screen and some eyes at the bottom. There is a smoky colorful haze in the background.

I just entered a dungeon. There are mossy stone walls and Roots hanging from the ceiling. There are some stalagmites jutting up from the ground.

On a dirt path leading through the woods. There are trees to the left and to the right. There is a giant hollowed out tree at the end of the path.

Für meine lieben Pixelfed Follower*innen. Die Stories bei Pixelfed funktionieren bei mir nicht. Ich warte seit Montag auf das Buch von Theunissen, um zitieren zu können, immernoch nicht da und wir sind seit über einer Woche jetzt schon krank.

Ich habe auch Skrupel davor und halte mich mit dem Beitrag zurück, weil, wenn ich ehrlich wäre und das bin ich, es fällt mir sehr schwer es nicht zu sein, selbst wenn das zu meinem Nachteil geschieht, dann würde ich sowohl #Theunissen als auch #PDA kritisieren. Und da ich einen Beitrag schreiben müsste und wollte, wäre das immer präsent.

Ich möchte nicht, dass es wie eine Abrechnung mit der PDA Bewegung aussieht, weil ich ihr auch viel zu verdanken habe, aber sie war ein Sprungbrett wie zuvor #audhs etwas zu sehen, was ich vorher nicht gesehen und verstanden habe, aber ich denke, dass die pathologisierende und pathologische Sichtweise mehr schadet als sie hilfreich ist. Da bin ich ganz auf der Seite von Theunissen.

Es reicht völlig bedürfnisorientiert #Neurodivergenz zu begleiten und das ist eben auch das, was ähnlich Theunissen sagt. Ich gehe allerdings nicht mit all seinem gesagtem dakor. In einigen vielleicht sogar vielen Punkten hat durchaus auch die Elternbewegung recht, was die Kritik an der institutionalisierten Hilfe zum Beispiel angeht und auch sich vom professionellen Sehen abzugrenzen, leider denke ich, dass sie selbst auch verblendet ist und einem Bias unterliegt und Phänomene die PDA zugeordnet sind unter einem bestimmten Filter und Lupe sieht, die die Wahrnehmung dieser Phänomene als Soziales Sehen beeinflussen. Ähnlich wie es auch zuvor schon #Autismus durch die Normgesellschaft durchmachen musste und immernoch muss, nämlich mit Vorurteilen gesehen zu werden.

#neurodivers #Neurodiversität #Neurokomplexität #pädagogik #psychologie

Geometrisches Winterbild von Paul Klee in grau weiß mit Akzenten in Pastell und pink blau grün

Pathological Digital Affection Personal Display Avoidance Public Demand Assistant #PDA #TLA

Fun with #NetBSD 10.1 and Sharp #Zaurus #PDA.

Command line:

skint -l anim2.scm | ppmscale 2 \
| wish ppm.tcl; \
skint -l map.scm -e '(begin (main) (exit))' \
| pnmscale 1 | wish ppm1.tcl

When a fops writes a silly #Pocket_PC application

#windowsmobile #pda #retro

Image shows a C# source of a application that shows a Button with ":3" that opens a message box with the text "Awawawa from Fuxle!" on a PDA

Handspring Visor Neo Blue
2001

https://handheldmuseum.org/device/handspring-inc-visor-neo-blue/

#HandheldMuseum #Handspring #Palm #RetroTech #pda

One of my hobbies (one of many) is working with #psion #pda devices, the community that exists around them is a wonderful combination of conservation, #techno-archaeology and experimental development. It also involves quite a bit of glue/epoxy.

For example in the last 24hrs someone unearthed a Japanese website on modding the Psion Revo and someone else found a source forge site with a Linux based app to convert the calendar and contacts to a more usable format, from 2001. This will then feed into @jbmorley ReConnect which is a modern sync app for MacOS.

Also there has been loads of work on getting different psion ROMs working on MAME which is absolutely amazing. Lots of recovery old devices and dumping the roms.

There was a very vibrant Psion community back in the day which has been scattered and we are slowly re-exploring the digital wasteland that is the internet, it's crazy as some websites still are hosted from 25yrs ago.

Anyway I'm having fun

I have been looking for a Sylvania #SmartBook for some time & finally got one!

These are such interesting devices. One part 90's H/PC, one part 2000's #PocketPC & thrown into a #NetBook form factor.

It's a strange hybrid device of form and function.

I can't wait to tinker around with this. Since it runs on ARM and #WindowsCE I have heard there are ways to load pocket PC programs on it, though they may be unoptimized.

#PDA #RetroTech #Handheld #HandheldPC

A black colored Sylvania Smartbook. It is displaying the Windows desktop with wallpaper that reads Windows Embedded Compact 7.

It looks quite similar to Windows '95, 98, or 2000 but isn't.

A shot of the black smartbook displaying the system properties screen. It reads that it is running Windows Embedded Compact 7.

The front of the Sylvania smartbook box. It has a shot of the black black notebook like device. On the left hand side of the box in an orange colored column it lists the highlights of the device.

Some of the highlights include 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of flash memory and the fact that it runs Windows CE 7.

The back of the smartbook box. It lists the specs of the machine.

The best part is the lower left hand corner where it reads: This product is not a computer. It is a wireless internet device with a Windows embedded operating system. 😎

Moin ihr Lieben,
Ich sitze an der Zusammenfassung seit 5.30 Uhr ungewollt, aber trotzdem so viel besser als der ragebait und clickbait und das Doomscrolling auf #Instagram und dem #Algorithmus, der einen verfolgt, damit man aufjedenfall interagiert und immer mehr Reichweite dadurch generiert.
Die Zusammenfassung wird 2 Bücher von uns mit Georg Theunissen zu Grunde haben und 2 Artikel aus einem Sammelband zur #Sonderpädagogik und meine Gedanken.
Ich hoffe spätestens morgen also Dienstag fertig zu sein. Sehr spannende Gedanken im jedem Fall. Unter #Psychoedukation und Peer Counceling wird es auch darum gehen, wie das auf Insta zu verorten und einzuordnen ist. Auch gesellschaftskritisch. Das sind dann meine Gedanken mit Unterstützung der Artikel aus dem Sammelband. Bis dann. #autismus #neurodivergenz #neurodiversität #audhs #pda #adhs #neurodivers

Ein blaues geschlossenes Notizbuch auf einem beigen Holztisch mit Schatten darauf.

Fully working application.

https://archive.org/details/bonsai-5.0.3

#PalmOS #PDA

#PDA #Android #HanDBase #Linux #ThrowbackThursday

Back in the day I was a big PDA user and used and developed quite a number of mobile databases using HanDBase.

I discovered yesterday that HanDBase runs on Android. So I purchased it and installed the old HanDBase Windows 3.0 client using #wine. Like old times--a blast from the past!

I didn’t want to go this route for various reasons but it looks like a #VirtualMachine is the only option left for me. It should allow me to manage my #PocketPC #PDA without the need to reboot or switch PCs.

I have never ran a #VM before so it will be a learning process.

What are the recommended vms for running Windows XP on #Linux with USB passthrough?

I hear a lot about VirtualBox. Any others?

🧵 4/4

#AskFedi

Syncing a #PocketPC to #Linux.

It appears that using the old native linux programs (SyncEvolution, etc.) to achieve this is not a realistic goal, if even possible anymore.

Even if this goal were achievable it’s not user friendly. It would also only sync PIM data & would not allow access to the file system of the #PDA for dragging and dropping files to the system memory or SD card. This is a crucial part of managing the device. This is a dead end.

I only see 3 options moving forward…

🧵 1/4

Application from HP PDA CD.

https://archive.org/details/i-presentation-mobile-player-arm

#WindowsMobile #PDA #HP

#PdA

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