Comments on: Thanks to LGR I just found out about SimCity for palm pilots was a thing!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:59:30 +0000

In reply to GL1zdA.

It’s first generation SimCity. Honestly in the modern era, yeah it’s not especially challenging.

It’s more of a fish tank imho

By: GL1zdA

GL1zdA — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 08:33:19 +0000

I’ve played it on my m515. I remember the game was not very challenging and the options were limited

By: baka

baka — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 19:06:47 +0000

Now try SimCity for Psion.
Also there’s another palm emulator for widows mobile and android called Styletap

By: Caio César

Caio César — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:57:51 +0000

I used to play a color version on my Treo 650. Good times.

By: PashPaw

PashPaw — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 23:18:08 +0000

In reply to Peter Godwin. The app for syncing websites was called AvantGo and I used it extensively as I didn't have the modem option. I had a Palm m515 from about 2003-2005 and still have my Tungsten E2 kicking around somewhere. And yeah, I remember SimCity for Palm OS too. Of course, the monochrome version LGR shows doesn't do it justice. It was impressive to see it in full color.

By: Peter Godwin

Peter Godwin — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 21:50:42 +0000

I had a Palm m100 for a while in the early 2000s.

The names are all forgotten now, but I had a great app which syncing websites (news mostly) for offline reading, some early ebook reading apps, and that copy of SimCity too 🙂

M100 was laughably underpowered even then, and the small amount of memory really sucked.

I likewise moved on to WinCE (HTC Magician), then to Symbian based (Nokia e71) devices as the reliability tended to better (CE would be unresponsive on incoming calls!) while waiting for the iPhone to basically be stocked.