PalmOrb : Credits
Authors
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PalmOrb was initially created by
J Robert Ray
in 2000. He did the hard work; coming up with an idea! He released
v0.1; it had the 20x4 screen and an about box. It worked on PalmOS
3.3 and above (I've just tried it on PalmOS 5.4 and it still works!).
[Archive of site in May 2000] |
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Then in 2002, David Douthitt did huge amounts of
work on it. He added: Horizontal bars, Vertical bars, Keypad,
Outputs, ENTIRE Font (including Japanese chars, foreign chars, and
symbols), Cursor movement, Clear screen, Line wrap, and Auto scroll.
David produced a great emulation of a Matrix Orbital display. Also a
good tool for debugging software that drive Matrix Orbital displays.
[Archive of site in Sep 2002] |
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In 2004, It was worked on by Chris Lansley - released 1.0 (Improved robustness, PalmOS 2.0+, color, Serial port configuration, BlueTooth, IR (IrComm), USB, Hi-res and color icons, etc) and 1.1a4 (improved the screen; multiple fonts, etc). He also carried out a number of experiments, of which one ended up in the 1.1 series of builds. An image from one of his experiments is to the left. He also created this website. Chris is looking for somebody to take the project over as he spends all his spare time on other projects and has over 10 real lcds... |
A search on the internet will also show that PalmOrb has been modified by a few people for their own use - this is one of the advantages of having the source code available!
Thanks to...
- Matthew Augier of LCDC (DPS Ltd); for donating a LCDC license.
- Joachim Calvert; for helping to debug the alpha releases. I was unable to make the alpha releases crash on my Palm or on the Palm simulators/emulators (even with Gremlins running and a full stress test of the serial port); yet Joachim's USB connected Zire was crashing all the time! Without his help PalmOrb had no chance of getting to a beta release. Also, for his helpful text about getting USB on Linux working, which appears in the FAQ and README.
- suiciety; for suggesting BlueTooth support as a feature and then testing it after it was implemented. Also for supporting others in the forum.
- Ben Dauphinee; for trying some USB/Windows ideas out. Also for helping to generate some FAQ content.
- Adrian Nicolaiev; for providing links to hardware solutions for USB Palms (which appear in the USB Windows page).
- Itai Tavor; for providing content for the FAQ.
