The Author of the seminal Dashboad for NewtOS has released it to the world on GitHub. There is a great read there on Github about the process. There is also a nice review about Dashboard that I came across if you are not familiar with what it did…
Category Archives: Newton
Newton Connection to MacOSX
One of the hardest things I’ve ever tried to do was connect a Newton to an OSX host. Between getting ADB connections to USB, and OSX with and without Classic so far it’s been impossible. At least not connecting them has zero impact on my life, so this can take as long as it needs…
Hope for Newton – squashing the 2010 Bug?
Mottek: John Arkley was wrong … Eckhart Köppen has built a Newton patch. So it seems like there are 3 people alive who can do it, despite what John has written. John, Paul and Eckhart. And only one of them is actively developing for the Newton… Which is pretty impressive. Meanwhile, the excellect Nitch software…
Why the best Newtons could die next year
There is a bad bug in the handing of time for Newton OS 2.1, which is used on most Newtons still around today. Details of the bug have been collected on the 40hz site. There is one ‘fix’ that doesn’t completely work. What is needed is a real system patch, and those are just not…
2008 and the Newton
Genghis7777 has a great roundup of 2008 Newton Developments. I haven’t used my Newton much, but I’m actually considering taking it back up again since the iPhone is not able to track all the notes and things I need to keep around. There is still a strong community, still developing and making the Newton relevant…
OpenEinstein build 48 for Nokia 770
I’ve complied OpenEinstein 2007-07 build 48. Current as of today. You can download it below. It’s about 1.8 megs, bzipped. It will expand into a 16 meg file. Feel free to download the binary here. You’ll need this file also: Einstein.rex. The last thing you need of course is a real Newton ROM, so please…
iPhone vs N800 Quick Comparison
Apple iPhone: ARM CPU @ 667mhz [Samsung], 128Mb ram, 8GB Flash Nokia N800: ARM CPU @ 320mhz [TI], 128Mb ram, 256Mb Flash N800 has dual SD cards for more Flash, iPhone has no way to extend the 8Gb. N800 has a bigger screen, higher DPI but doesn’t have the light-touch touch-screen like the iPhone. I’d…
Building Open Einstein
Here are some more detailed instructions on getting Open Einstein built on MacOSX Intel, using the JAM complier and targeting the Nokia 770. I also built it for MacOSX, to run locally on my macbook. The published directions are here, and you should read them first and familiarize yourself with them. Install MacPorts * MacPorts-1.5.0-10.4.dmg…
Open Einstein booting on 770
After some trial and error, and some help from Paul G, I managed to build Open Einstein for both my Intel Mac and for my Nokia 770, using just my Macbook. I followed the directions to build at the Google Code site. I’ll have more explicit directions soon, but the code does build and run…
Newton ARM Emulation Goes Open Source
At the 2007 Worldwide Newton Conference in Tokyo on July 8th, Paul Guyot announced that his most excellent Newton Emulator for ARM, Einstein, was now open source and available immediately on Google Code. His announcement to the NewtonTalk mailing list is worth the read. One improvement that sounds enticing: “the heavy work done these past…
iPhone Development- Old School
There was immediate and critical response to Steve Job’s announcement of the SDK for iPhone…. use html. But is Apple on to something? Forcing eager developers to use the open standards of the web? Forsaking almightly Flash? No IDE? Apple seemed by many to be channeling the Reality Distortion Field at full blast. But the…
Updated Newton Emulator for 770
Paul Guyot released this email to the NewtonTalk (a Newton list). He had a special showing of his latest build of Einstein Platform 2006 at the Apple store in Ginza. Here is a picture of the participants, Newtons in hand. The 770 build is going to be released shortly– if you have a Zaurus, you…
Einstein on 770 mini-update
For those of you interested in the Einstein Project (emulation of an Apple Message Pad 2000 on your Nokia 770), I have some news. Good and bad of course. The Good news: Paul has his own 770, which was donated to him. This will certainly help the eventual development of Einstein on the Nokia platform…
Booting Einstein on the 770
After a fews days of experimentation, I have a workable recipe for using Einstein with the 770. There is work that remains to be done to Einstein, but it does run, just slowly and it is buggy. This is not ready to be a production Newton yet. First there are some things I’m assuming you…
A new Era Dawns
NewtOS/Einstein works on the 770! This is developing, but it works at this point, once you disable the kernel-watchdog and kill Matchbox to free up enough RAM for Einstein to launch. I’ll post a more detailed receipe of what I did later today, when I get some free time. Screenshots: Photos of Newton Booting on…