14 DAY TRIAL // Those of you who love the PalmOS and like to see it running have now a reason to rejoice, as we learn that they can now play games for the platform on their home PCs. To be more precise, Handcase has just announced that it has developed a ROM to run on the Palm emulator, which is free, the same as the emulator, and offers users the possibility to play the company's games directly on the computer.
As many of you might already know, Palm announced a few months ago that it planned to end the life cycle of its PalmOS, given the fact that it would soon launch a new mobile platform, the webOS, and a lot of users of the older platform would remain without the thing they liked. Fortunately, Handcase comes now with a solution that allows them to enjoy the games developed for the OS on their PC; all they have to do is purchase the titles, download the ROM and the emulator, and then play the games on the computer.
“In fact we thought this much over the past two years, and did not postpone it because they seemed to make sense when we focus on the Handcase, […] we are a company focused exclusively on mobility. What motivated us was the declaration of the end of the operating system PalmOS,” said Ricardo Garay, CEO of Handcase. He also added that there were a lot of users who enjoyed the platform and also liked the games, and that was another thing that determined the company to move forth with its plans.
Handcase also announced that users could download a number of freeware games, which would also offer them the possibility to try them out before purchasing them. Most of them are casual, yet users will also be able to find board, strategy, logic and brain games, as well as cards and dices. Moreover, the titles will run on any computer configurations, courtesy of the emulator, the only requirement being that they run under Windows.
In addition, Handcase has started working with MotionApps on the compatibility of its products with the classic emulator, the one that allows users to run PalmOS applications on the newly unveiled webOS. “Now it does not matter if PalmOS is over, we keep the flame alive,” Garay concludes. More information on the company's titles can be found on its official website.