The First ARM Transition: Palm Dragonball CPU Emulation

Really cool travelling shot at the end ! I didn't know about the voice filter implemented.

I m indonesian but still watch the old phone like that..nice job bro.

Super interesting, your videos!

I'm glad I found this channel. Very impressive analysis. I'm my personal opinion, even though Palm did no invented mobile devices like these, I'm very sure their influence was very strong for modern devices. Is sad to see how it all ended :(

nice

I loved my Tungsten T back in the day. RIP Palm

Great review - I really liked the Tungsten T and remember Aeroplayer fondly! I used to have an app to re encode videos to make them less demanding resolutions and also remember using ScummVM to play Monkey Island 2! 🐒😂

I honestly didn't hear anything wrong with the MP3 you were playing initially, until I heard how it sounded AFTER the update... Wow!

Due to my work I often come across old business related technology. Things like mobile phones, tablets, toughbooks and PDAs that get forgotten about in the bottom drawer of a desk or collected up and stored at the back of the highest shelf in the office store room when a company issues its staff with new tech. Since owning a Treo 750, I've had an interest in Palm products and I was excited to find a m515 and just recently a Tungsten T3. Finding detailed information on old devices like these is often difficult, so it's always a pleasure to watch a video focusing on these handhelds that offers some of the history and reasoning behind the design and not just a retrospective review of the product and it's functions.

Tungsten T was one of my favourite, I loved the form factor quite a lot, It fits in my jeans front pocket. Metal housing and great build quality

I have two Tungsten T's and a T2. Great stuff. Even have the 56K modem attachment.

Wow that low pass filter issue really made a huuuuge difference

Dragonball ??

A friend had a Palm Zire 71 with the same CPU, which was good enough for playable Sega Genesis emulation. It was quite a shock for me to see the original Sonic The Hedgehog running on a pocketable device!

to say that what palm pulled off is impressive is but a mere understatement.

Which is better tungsten t2 or t3?

This is now my new favorite old tech channel. I'm subbing.

😅 my smartphone have 128000MB

Awesome tune on the demo. Sounds like SWIV. Dude - you didn’t demo Raging Thunder gameplay. What is the framerate like?

Hey Janus, I used to love playing around on my mums old palm tungesten t as a kid a few years back. I never knew it had an arm cpu, or that interesting audio filter thingo. Thanks for another great video! 😄

The original firmware had the magical ability to turn all MP3s 32-64k sounding!

I was early on Palm and still have my old Tungsten T in a drawer. Fantastic device.

Another great video. I could binge watch these for hours!

oh god the speakers remind me of the video now flip device. so fucking crappy of a video player. they have specialized cds that were made to not be the same size as normal dvd/cds and the slightlest nudge makes them skip frames.

I guess it could be said that the DragonBall Processor didn't have enough power level to be useful anymore...
It would have been nice if they had released a better one and called it SuperDragonBall-
If ya overclocked it, you could say it was using kaioken xD
Honestly, I'm surprised that nobody made a DragonBall joke yet in the comments-
Amazing video regardless, just found your channel and am loving to discover more about pdas and some tech from the early 2000s, its amazing to see what they could already do on mobile despite it being so early on o.o

Just found your channel. I like you. You explain things with the right amount of detail AND brevity. You are charismatic and hold my attention. Hats off to you, sir. May your blossom in subscribers!
Oh, and thanks for taking an entire evening away from me while I binge watch memories on your channel. I had one of the OG B&W models, only once I could grab one on the used market ;). Most uncomfortable stylus I have ever used! Thank you for bringing this back. Things were so much simpler back then. And companies did once listen to their consumers. . . Once upon a time.....

damn this is fucking entrtaining

Where the hell is goku

yooooo i love that anime

Nice device, i had TX at the time, great memories. It was smart enough to remember and instantly open last open app. Only bad thing it wasn't any waterproof even too light rain. Can be killed with few drops, same easy as it's predecessors.

Love the choice of song... bush tucker man les. Australia is Awesome

Man, this video has a sick tune in the title card, but I couldn't figure out what that song is. Can anyone help me with that plase?

Edit: nevermind, I found it a while ago apparently. Nice amiga tune.

Of course, Apple also transitioned from the Motorola 68k to a RISC CPU by building an emulator into the operating system, though it was the PowerPC instead of ARM.

Given Apple's involvement with ARM at the time (because of the Newton), there's an alternate reality in which Apple chose ARM to replace the 68k instead of PowerPC. Instead it took them another 20 years and two extra transitions to get there.

(For what it's worth, ARM based Mac systems are 64-bit only, and 64-bit ARM is very different from 32-bit ARM)

Nice video, thanks for sharing it :)

palm is just the best

I have the same one in perfect condition, as well as many other models, I collect them

Bush tucker man!

hi janus, you have incredible will to continue for making this kind of videos (that makes me very happy ) exact same area of interest (mobile devices, hacking them, forcing them to do another task which they cant do default) i really feel myself in my confortzone, this videos lowering my anxiety. i hope you become something, something good, rich etc.

Uniq style and aplication

Can you tell me what that battery option in the preference panel is? I converted one of my Palm 3xe to lithium batteries, but the OS battery level indicator is tuned to normal AAAs, and has no idea about the lithium cell. Thank you! Love your videos 😁

You know with all the data gathering going on one of these could be of use these days

I had the Tungsten. It was neat for a Palm since it was so much faster and could do so much more. Very well built. But the problem is that it was segmented in this catch-up mode with its competitors for the high-tech features. If you really were satisfied with old Palm programs you really did not need this more expensive PDA. And if you wanted more in terms of multimedia, this was far from the most competitive. As it was mentioned here, the video playback was just meh, and the wifi version I had was way too crazy slow for non-WAP HTML sites. In the end, those who itched to do modern post-2000 activities on a handheld device were left not too happy with the Tungsten. And of course, the late solution for Palm was the eventual development of what became the Palm Pre, which by then the ship had sailed for competitive marketplace.

they'd better got rid of this god awful grafitti and the wasted space the writing area uses.

Could you try to give the palm tungsten a capacitive touchscreen? Not like the pres

DRAGONBALL?!

if it werent for palm we wouldnt have smartphone

Mate, that mod player music really brought good old childhood memories! ❤

Palm could of Ruled the world... Could Palm be modernized with current hardware and a more updated and capable OS beyond even their WebOS? Would love to see their founders or other visionaries move with something new in the world of Android and IOS.

This video actually inspired me to order one to play with. My stepmother had a Palm Centro back in the day, and I never got to play with PalmOS. Better late than never, I guess

Some games actually access the screen in a similar way to that demo, I can only assume it's some sort of framebuffer issue, Nebulous and Serious Sam show the same dual display in gameplay, but their menus are fine.