I did in actual fact spend an obnoxious amount of time in a shop investigating the communicator to get information about it being GEOS through the debug functions. There's a certain amount of danger in being harassed by staff to get the hell out of the shop if you aren't buying anything, or like they start asking you questions about stock trading to prove your identity, and who the hell your contacts are. As in what exactly is your business that needs organising you little squrrel minded freak. Oh so you need voice memos for what exactly? The trading network of local ice cream vans? Oh well here's a quid, go buy me an ice lolly and let the grown ups ring important people. Bring bring is that Richard Branson? Yeah we've got a biz intruder on floor 1, i think they're trying to haxxor our tax accounts. Quick, buy em a happy meal with Mickey Mouse toy before they ask too many Anne Robinson quizes.
As for 200lx, i've lost the ir cover for mine but recommend the easter egg which shows mono gif whatever, pcx? Of the staff looking even more beardy than the old Unix crew. In 1991 every single real human wore glasses, it is a fact. Everyone else was some sort clone from an alien invasion force. And now you now how to win Xfiles.
[doublepost=1526546629,1526545498][/doublepost]This thread has reminded me of something i'm slightly ashamed of would like to apologise to Psion staff about.
I may have scripted the lonely looking Psion 3C in PC World using OPL and config to say rude things I recorded into the microphone.
However, to a first gen South Park crowd that made it look extremely cool to other teenagers when they're walking past with mom or dadz being dull and arguing to hell and back about finer warranty points of nothing interesting... When a tiny digitised voice nearby calls you something or other with harsh human syntax.
And maybe i left source code comments saying how to alter the scripts.
Yeah so PC World got savvy and wiped comps every day or week, priot to the invention of 'ghosting' disks. So my mates got obsessive like Vietnam and quicker before bods showed up. The ring leader betrayed us by eventually workfing FOR the shop and making insane sales comission but probably cheated. You know, by sabotaging every shop PC and then only he knew the magic words... Ah ah ah, ah ah ah.
In his defense, he splashed the cash on a high end CDR unit and burned me a copy of Mandrake which i still have and looks brand new. Good old Samsung CDR, don't make em like they used to (cranky kong). Wave walking stick.
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Nokia and HP were originally partners in pocket computing before Symbian/EPOC were in the picture. The two teamed up to create the HP OmniGo 700LX, which literally combined a 200LX with a Nokia 2110.
I never used it but the LX series had a two way paging service which could be used for SMS, email, and faxing. I could only afford the computer itself, alas.
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if HP and Nokia hadn't broken up and HP went off into the Windows CE wasteland.
WindowsCE isn't a wasteland. It's my primary lab and looking around, people are still developing libraries for it or porting stuff.
If you want my honest opinion, it reminds me of the TV show Breaking Bad. Code examples in EVC date back to Atari development, and it probably isn't a metaphor since many of the staff were drug addict bikers; Nolan claims they were potheads rather than methheads, and from what I gather these guys are currently sitting around Warners Bros tech department tuning Harleys in a half zoned uberzen state. Atari version of a retirement home?
The Jornada is like inheriting a superhog, and the devkit some sort of old haunted Golf club for 'gents' that like leather and spreadsheets. It comes with Ad&d trolling since documentation for basic things like win32 sound streaming is gone or looted. So in other words it means targetting the handheld via asm directly, like a proper Breaking Bad dude. However, the mini windows structure is quite good and mostly what I might have made in an earlier era. It has cobwebs and creaky wood but worthwhile.
Major issue is code dependancy on Windows XP and EVC, which is like some sort of reboot of Halflife2 in which everyone is a Zombie, and you need to get back to Klieners lab via Ravenholm, and DNA scan pass uses his own dead skeleton via dusty rattling auto checkpoint machines.
Yeah well thats also known as a conceit. Or wasting people's time on gameplay that should be optional. I get the tutorial methods and such, but how about working documentation. So like, random industrial cranes don't accidentally fall over and crush ships. Or traffic lights don't explode and embed plastic chunks in a lollipop ladies head?
The EVC documentation hints they made such mistakes. Factory somewhere... People horrible maimed... Legal nightmare. Or more Ravenhome gameplay to get you thinking?
Yeah well GCC is just as bad these days. 600 strong matrix of worthless compile options that don't build anything ever without the secret password recipe of doom. It goes on forever. And holy wow... I've seen Ubuntu distros whereby GCC didn't self make properly and segfaults everything ever within a 100mile radius.
