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All my current Palm programs are Freeware !!! Please enjoy them and let me know what you think.
Palm Programs in C++
NeverMind - A fun version of MasterMind.
Palm Programs in PocketC
TinyLogo - A programming environment for your Palm.
Pixit - A Picross puzzle game with over 100 puzzles.
RunNums - A puzzle game that tests your ability to look ahead.
Palm Programs in Waba
SpellAid - A utility to look at the words in Palm memos.
TextScroll and MemoList - Some useful classes for Waba programmers.
Palm Programs in Plua
Plua is a Palm implementation of Lua which is an interesting scripting language out of Brazil. I am just starting to explore it, but I find it has a number of simple yet powerful concepts. I ported SpellAid as one of my tests.
SpellAid_Lua.zip - A utility to look at the words in Palm memos. (Plua version).
For comparisons, here is SpellAid in Waba. Here is SpellAid in PocketC.
Other Palm Items (in progress)
A comparison of Mobile Studios C++ (MC), PocketC (PC), OnBoard C (OC), Waba (W), WabaJump (WJ), and Plua (P). - I haven't had time to write this up well. Here are some quick comparisons...
Runtime Engine: PC, W, P require a runtime engine. MC, OC, and WJ do not.
On board / Windows compilers: PC, P, OC, have on board compilers. Others do not. All the languages except OC have some kind of Windows based IDEs (MC, PC provides theirs - the others are from 3rd parties, such a Visual Cafe for W or WJ)
Price: W, WJ are free. The others charge for at least one part (Plua is free in beta, but will be shareware).
Ease of programming: PC, P are the easiest to program in and usually have the smallest source code for a given problem. W, WJ will be most familiar to Java programers. MC will be most familiar to Microsoft Visual C++ users. OC is most like Metroworks Codewarrior but without the nice IDE.
Object-oriented: W, WJ, MC are Object Oriented languages which can be helpful for a big project, but is actually a lot of overhead for a small quick program. W is based on a bytecode subset of Java, which is what allows it to be programmed in a standard Java IDE. MC uses the GNU C++ compiler and other freeware tools. Orbworks, which makes PC, has just announced a new language/tool which is somewhat like an O-O version of PC with a nice IDE as well. I have not had much chance to test it yet.
Performance: My rough estimation of the fastest runtimes starting with the fastest are: MC, OC, WJ, P, W, PC. Of course it all depends on the particular program being tested, but my measurements gave the following. With MC as taking 1 unit of time for a given task, the others are: MC=1, OC=1+, WJ=2, P=4, W=5, PC=20.
Programming Power and Palm-like GUI: Only MC and OC provide direct access to the Palm OS API and thus they are the most powerful and yield the most Palm-like GUI. P provides convenient wrappers around the Palm GUI controls and so the UI is fairly Palm-like. W, WJ, and PC provide their own UI objects which are only partially Palm-like.
Some TinyBytes Databases for ThinkDB
One hundred puzzles for PictureLogic (converted from my Pixit program).