Twenty years ago, the handheld mobile device at that time was called PDA. Palm OS is an operating system developed by Palm Corporation for PDAs (handheld computers), which once occupied 90% of the PDA market share.
While the days of the PDA are long gone, the legacy of the Palm OS lives on.Recently, Palm OS developers Aaron Ardiri on his GitHub pageReleased the source code for 12 games, GameBoy emulators, and various tools developed for the Palm OS more than 20 years ago.
Aaron Ardiri said: Before iOS and Android, even before the concept of smartphones, there were PDAs, such as Newton, Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian. Palm OS has a thriving gaming scene with emulators and implementations/remakes of classic games like LodeRunner, Lemmings, Game and Watch, and more. Written primarily in C and optimized in assembly, these games are designed for low-memory, low-processing-power environments, and they port perfectly.
The 12 releases are as follows:
- Phire (Fire!) (game and watch clone)
- Parashoot (Parachute) (game and watch clone)
- Maryobros (Mario Bros) (clone)
- Lemmings (Lemmings) (clone)
- Hoards of the Deep Realm (Loderunner) (clone)
- Hexxagon (Ataxx) (clone)
- DKung (Donkey Kong – Dual Screen) (game and watch clone)
- DKJR (Donkey Kong Jr) (game and watch clone)
- Octopus (Octopus) (clone)