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StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game

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203 points capitain | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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waynecochran ◴[21 Oct 25 12:07 UTC] No.45654825[source]▶
There are all kinds of retro stuff that I still love. What is it about Palm OS that you love?
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capitain ◴[21 Oct 25 12:14 UTC] No.45654871[source]▶
It's the whole idea of 'apps' before smartphones became a thing. It's also the simplicity of how these worked, forget multitasking, just focus on one thing at a time.

No subscriptions! Either the applications were free or it's a one-off fee/shareware kind of thing.

And it's ofcourse nostalgia, I made my first game for Palm OS over 20 years ago, it was nice to revisit it and get familiarized again with how the whole build system worked.

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anthk ◴[21 Oct 25 15:06 UTC] No.45656741[source]▶
Are the Z-Machine games (Infocom text adventures and the ones from the 90's made with Inform6 and 7 in the 00's) really playable with a stylus input?
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1. simmons ◴[21 Oct 25 15:21 UTC] No.45656932[source]▶
When you become good at using Palm graffiti, it's not too bad. I remember playing through all of the _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ game on a Palm IIIx while commuting on the bus between Boulder and Denver back in 1999 or so, and being amazed that I could play an actual computer game on a handheld device.