As I was rooting around my stuff this evening, I dug out my old Palm Zire. As in, the original Zire. Running a 16MHz Motorola DragonBall EZ processor with a whopping 2MB RAM, and a 160x160px grayscale LCD touchscreen. It's old as hell. It looks like this Now what should I do with it? Is there some sort of viable hack I can do to make this thing useful again? Is there some cool software I can run? Custom firmware hacks? Or should I try selling it?
Your kidding the processor is really called "DragonBall"? lol weird. :v: Try a google search maybe looking around will give you some ideas.
Yes, it's a real processor name. Based on the m68k, too! I did. Why do you think I'm asking people here?
Fuck yes oldschool palm. I highly suggest you go find the game Space Trader, that shit is the most addictive game ever. It's like drug wars but you're a space pirate instead and you can buy several different types of ships. I love to save up enough money for a big well armed ship and just go around being a tool blowing up the cops and shit. As for firmware hacks, I don't know of any non-arm open source Linux ports, but there was an illegal port a few years back, think it was called LinuxDA or something. They never complied with the GPL as far as I know, but it was some pretty cool tech. They actually sold Palm clones based on that OS for a time, but at one point they had a version you could download from their site that ran on the Palm III. I think that would probably work on your Zire if you can find it. It was based on Linux but looked and felt similar to Palm OS, and ran a bit faster. It even had native support for Palm apps, supposedly.