Palm emulation for iPhone/iPod touch demonstrated

OMG. I would buy the Touch and this this application in a New York second. My Palm T|X is getting wonkier and wonkier with digitization problems and I'd love to get a Touch. But I have too many Palm apps that I rely on heavily. This would be a godsend.

"NOT a product, nor is its presence here a commitment of any kind, express or implied, that StyleTap Inc. will ever release an official version of StyleTap CrossPlatform for Apple iPhone or iPod touch."

well, thanks for the tease. that's a really stupid thing to say.

Jeez, I would kill to be able to run all of my old palm apps on an iTouch/iPhone -- I have a zillion apps laying around on an old backup, just waiting to be used again.

Are they emulating at 1:1 for "hi-res" (320x320) apps and 2:1 for standard res apps? (160x160)?

OMG never! I was a Palm user since at least 1996 and I jettisoned my last Palm when I got my iPhone recently. I never want to go back. The Palm 3rd party apps I had were nice and I'd like to see those properly brought to the iPhone once the SDK is released but, oddly, I don't miss them much either.

Yes Please!

As long as the iPhone doesn't have the same number of (valuable) apps as the iPhone I would love to have this application.

It would cover one of the weakest points of the iPhone: a severe lack of apps. And even with the -delayed- SDK, it will take a while before the iPhone catches on.

i've been looking all over the place for nclex-rn review software that can run on the iphone. None exists, with the palm emulator i can finally start studying for the nclex.

One of the things holding me back from an iPhone is the fact that there's no trivial way to replace the Palm apps I use every day (the other is being shackled to AT&T). The BrainForest outliner, jFile database, SplashMoney expense tracker, SplashWallet password vault and Metro subway map system are all pretty much indispensable to me. I'm sure that once the SDK appears developers will offer polished replacements for some of these, and HTML5-style sqlite storage (see http://webkit.org/blog/126/webkit-does-html5-client-side-database-storage/) may make it possible for me to cobble together my own versions of others. But Palm emulation might do a lot to ease the transition.

It would be nice to see the Newton emulator (see http://code.google.com/p/einstein/) ported to the iPhone / iPod touch. I wonder how performant it would run?

I have kept my Treo 650 for a single application: Trip Deluxe. Hands High has stated that they have no intention of building an iPhone version of the software.

If a similar application appears on the iPhone after the SDK is available, I would buy it. If not, I would consider this emulator IF, AND ONLY IF, there was some way to sync the data from the Palm applications back to the Macintosh applications. I didn't see a demo of HotSync or the conduits in the video. That's a deal-breaker for me.

I would LOVE to be able to use my palm apps on my iphone. After years of use of Palm OS on Palm branded units - I find myself trying to navigate my Palm like the iphone. I would love to give up my palm device if my apps worked on the iphone. I agree that they don't have to look pretty - they just need to work! Huge in the medical field.