New Project Maintainer.

Chris Lansley — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:47:59 -0000

Hello everyone. My name is Daniel. I am the new PalmOrb project manager. Check back soon for updates to the site(s) and program.

Thank you,
Daniel

Project Unmaintained

Chris Lansley — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 20:03:40 -0000

I'm no longer maintaining this project. I lost interest in the project after working on LCD Smartie and obtaining over 10 real LCDs...

I have already received an email from somebody who wishes to take the project over! So hopefully you will see improvement in PalmOrb soon!

Bye,
Chris.

v1.1 Alpha 4

Chris Lansley — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:43:04 -0000

Changes since v1.1a3:
- bug fix: port was left open in some failure cases.
- bug fix: USB was failing with "NotSupported" on some models.

v1.1 Alpha 2

Chris Lansley — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:55:49 -0000

Main change is for supporting more USB Palms.
[USB on Windows requires LCD Smartie 5.3a3 or above]

PalmOrb v1.0 Released

Chris Lansley — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:49:00 -0000

PalmOrb enables the use of your PalmOS device as an LCD status display for your computer. You can display system stats (such as CPU load graphs, CPU temperatures, free disk space), news alerts, stock indexes, WinAmp graphs, etc.

Thanks to the fantastic resources offered by SourceForge.net, we are happy announce our first formal release in over two years!

The v1.0 release offers the following enhancements over the 0.9 release: robustness was increased and support was added for PalmOS 2.0+, color, serial port configuration, Bluetooth, Infrared, USB on Linux. Graffiti can be used to send keys. More built-in help text. Hi-res and color icons. Many smaller additions include backlight control, error warnings, serial stats, and serial error stats.

Visit our site for further details:
http://palmorb.sourceforge.net

Beta 3 is released, Experiment C updated

Chris Lansley — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:29:47 -0000

Beta 3 has been released. In this release the LCD Smartie keyboard fix has been disabled by default.
The next release is likely to be v1.0 and it will be a repackage of Beta 3.

Experimental build C has been updated - it now allows the font to be selected and includes
two large fonts that allow the LCD to almost fill the screen. For more details see:
http://palmorb.sourceforge.net/experiments.html
Build C is likely to be the direction that PalmOrb will take after the v1.0 release.

Chris.

PalmOrb Beta Released

Chris Lansley — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:38:59 -0000

Use your PalmOS device as an LCD status display for your computer. You can display system stats (such as CPU load graphs, CPU temperatures, free disk space), news alerts, stock indexes, WinAmp graphs, etc.

Thanks to the fantastic resources offered by SourceForge.net, we are happy announce our first beta in over two years!

The beta offers the following enhancements over the 0.9 release: robustness was increased and support was added for PalmOS 2.0+, color, serial port configuration, Bluetooth Infrared, USB on Linux, and both new and old serial managers. Graffiti can be used to send keys. More built-in help text was added. Hi-res and color icons were added. Many smaller additions include backlight control, error warnings, serial stats, and serial error stats.

Alpha 7 Uploaded

Chris Lansley — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:57:46 -0000

Some big bug fixes in this one - hopefully that's will stop all the crashes.

Quite a few new features - including blue tooth and IrComm support.

Alpha 6 Uploaded

Chris Lansley — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:58:57 -0000

Alpha 6 is uploaded.

Main change is: Fixed crash in PalmOS below 3.0. Was using large bold font in about box, but this is only available in PalmOS 3.0 and above.

A few other bugs fixed too.

Alpha 5 Uploaded

Chris Lansley — Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:12:23 -0000

Alpha 5 is now available.

Main changes are:
- Now able to configure the serial connection (baud, data & stop bits, etc).
- Fixed all KNOWN bugs.
For full details see the release notes for this build.

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