PalmOS Lemmings

(github.com)

152 points | by memalign 1 day ago

18 comments

  • pipes 16 hours ago
    Odd coincidence, I downloaded Amiga vision on my pc last night, first thing I loaded up was lemmings.

    https://amiga.vision/

    It is basically a curates set of Amiga games, or as the creators say "consolised" Amiga. I'd originally set it up on my mister fpga and it is as close to zero setup on that as possible. Pc version was easy too.

    0mhz is a sister project for dos: https://0mhz.net/

    Anyway, not exactly related to this, but just a personal coincidence.

    • diamondDrill 11 hours ago
      thanks I wasn't aware of the superstationᵒⁿᵉ
  • nkx1 1 day ago
    Hi, I literally found an old SD card with files last modified from 2005 with a few palm games from then, would anyone find these useful for reverse engineering?
    • HeckFeck 1 day ago
      Dump them somewhere... the Internet Archive maybe? A lot of Palm stuff is bit rotting. We need it saved.
    • RodgerTheGreat 23 hours ago
      Check https://palmdb.net and if anything you have isn't already accounted for, submit copies.
    • teruakohatu 22 hours ago
      Please submit to the internet archive.
  • chuliomartinez 1 day ago
    Yeah Aaron is a PalmOS legend.

    I really liked the palmos c libs, MemCopy and WinCopyBitmap just reads so much nicer than memcpy and memset. Also UInt8 and UInt16:)

    Those were fun times, when 16bit ints were enough for everyone (just kiding;)

  • teddyh 1 day ago
    There was also a version of Lemmings on the HP48 calculator: <https://www.hpcalc.org/details/530> (incidentally by the same author as Alpha Waves, a.k.a. Continuum)
  • rickcarlino 1 day ago
    This README is begging for historical context and commentary.
  • yitchelle 1 day ago
    Interestingly he removed some of his clones (Mario brothers and others) on the request of Nintendo. Maybe his clones were too close to the real thing.
  • kneel25 5 hours ago
    Pretty unappreciated game. To think that GTA of all games has its roots here
  • Tepix 14 hours ago
    I also found a WASM version at https://www.hmilch.net/h/lemmings
  • VCFundedGenYer 1 day ago
    Palm OS, not PalmOS.

    Let's not forget nor confuse history.

    • HeckFeck 1 day ago
      And it is certainly never palmOS ;)
  • user3939382 1 day ago
    This is awesome, I wish I had it for my Treo.

    I love and miss PalmOS. My current iPhone I can’t wait to get rid of it. It’s half owned by other companies, phoning home in the background all the time, addictive. My Palm devices really felt like mine.

  • pjmlp 15 hours ago
    Ah the wonders of memory handles and lock/unlock patterns.
  • ktallett 1 day ago
    I never quite got into Lemmings (Worms was more my thing) but I love these pieces of software for limited hardware of the day such as Palm, Windows CE, or Newton.

    Edit// Oh this guys profile is full of cool Palm OS stuff.

    • helf 1 day ago
      Aaron was/is quite the coder. I used to belong to a group he was in as well. Learned a lot. Also took it as a challenge to crack his palm programs :) and he learned techniques to thwart us lol.

      Fun guy.

      • irq 1 day ago
        Hey there helf! I remember you from the #palmchat era. I went by irq back then too
      • ktallett 1 day ago
        He sounds great! I love these characters that you find in programming. My niche is more Mac Os System 7 -OS 9 and Be OS but the same sort of people exist in those realms too.
  • blobbers 1 day ago
    Let me just get my Palm Pilot out so I can play...
  • jdalgetty 1 day ago
    I loved my palm pilots so much!
  • NooneAtAll3 1 day ago
    does anyone else encounter github failing to load dark theme on first load, but working fine after page reload?
  • Kuyawa 1 day ago
    I played Lemmings so much I may be porting it to Swift

    Hold my beer...

  • hollowturtle 15 hours ago
    I'm always interested in projects like this. But how do I know this is not AI code? Let me explain, I read a lot AI produced code at work, when chilling on nerdy things I really wish I could read just human crafted code, for pure learning and joy, but as time goes on I've seen myself questioning more and more stuff, code, videos, even books I go check the publication date
    • tecleandor 14 hours ago
      Seems like most of the code (what you find in the first commit) is 25 years old [0], from 2001, and then there are a bunch of commits with some fixes and updates.

      --

        0: https://palm2000.com/articles/54
    • Brian_K_White 14 hours ago
      I agree but the commits look natural to me, even though it's a lot in a short time.
      • LtdJorge 14 hours ago
        > Fast forward on the Memo key without a 5-way navigator Devices without a 5-way navigator (e.g. the m515) had no fast forward key, as To Do moves the cursor there. On these devices the Memo key now runs fast forward while it is held down; selecting a lemming stays with the stylus.

        > Fast forward: the music keeps its pace The simple music engine of the devices before Palm OS 5 moved on one note step per step of the game logic, so with fast forward the music ran four times as fast too. It now moves on once per frame, in the event loop; the MIDI stream of Palm OS 5 has its own clock anyway

        It's AI.

  • helf 1 day ago
    aaron also did the Deity3D engine for palmos that was a FPS doom-like. I think the engine was later used for Master Thief 3D which was an incredible game for PalmOS.
    • nottorp 16 hours ago
      Interesting... for motorola palms or did it need an arm palm?