> On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 aftyde@A.crl.com wrote:
>
> > So- is the HP12c emulator in the OmniGo a *.GEO file? Could I port the
> > calculator to my Zoomer?
> >
>
> It would appear so, but you , of course, would have to buy the OmniGo,
> and the actual licensing might ethically prohibit it.
>
> > Is HP doing anything to foster the growth of GEOS based shareware? Do they
> > have a developers kit or program independent of GEOS?
> >
>
> The only development kit is Geoworks' SDK CD-ROM. Geoworks keeps saying
> that they are developing a visual programming tool, but, like most of
> their projects, it will probably be a while before anything surfaces.
>
There was a small discussion on Compuserve a few months ago among a lot of
the programmers that develop for the 200lx, etc, about whether they do
their work on the palmtop or on a pc. I don't remember anything about
numbers but most did their development right on the palmtop. I'm pretty
sure that's true about the 48 calculator as well.
I'll be very surprised if these are not the handhelds that have the most
software developed for them. I doubt (but don't actually know) that
anything else is even in their class with respect to available apps.
And that doesn't include general dos apps that will also run on the
200lx. I'm talking about software written for these machines to take
advantage of their capabilities.
My guess is that if there is no onboard development package for the
Omnigo, there also won't be a large library of programs for it. If
it's succesful, of course there will be more than for the Zoomer,
which wasn't very successful.
But, the folks at HP are pretty smart so maybe they'll figure that out.
Barry