Re: [iPAQ] PIM apps / copilot

Hello,

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:43:06PM +0100, Robert.Reynolds@autotrader.co.uk wrote:
> tried it under wince and it was very slow. It would also only work with
> PalmOS 2 or lower.

Xcopilot 0.6.6 also works with 3.x ROMs with a little trickery. You can
even use the iPAQ's IR port to hot-sync the xcopilot with a notebook.

Due to a bug in xcopilot, you need to ensure that the ROM files
have a size that is exactly a power of two. Use 'dd' to fix them:

        dd if=/dev/zero of=pilot.rom bs=1024 seek=2047 count=1
        before: -rw-r--r-- 1376256 Nov 9 2000 pilot.rom
        after: -rw-r--r-- 2097152 Jan 1 01:12 pilot.rom

Below, I've attached a patch against xcopilot 0.6.6 that reduces the
memory usage a lot by directly memory mapping the ROM file.
If you use the patched version, you'll need to manually byte swap
the rom file as follows:

        dd <pilot.rom >pilot.rom.swab conv=swab

Graffiti is pretty much unusable, but using an iPAQ native input method
instead works reasonably well.

I tried an 1.x ROM and it was much faster, however most applications
require at least a 2.x ROM.

BTW, you can get access ROM files by registering (for free) on
www.palm.com, this will however involve a certain amount of paper work.
An alternative would be using a program to download the ROM from your
palm pilot (if you don't have one, using the ROMs is illegal anyway).
There are rumors that the ROMs are also available for download on warez
sites, but doing that would of course be illegal, immoral and just plain
wrong.

        Klaus