HotPaw Applications for Obsolete PalmOS Handheld Computing Devices

HotPaw Basic,   yLexiSpell,   AeroTuner Guitar Tuner  
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HotPaw Basic for PalmOS

HotPaw Basic (or yBasic, formerly cbasPad Pro) for Palm OS is a full-featured programming environment which brings the ability to write and run Basic programs to the Palm of your hand. The BASIC programming language has been in use for over 3 decades; it's continued popularity is due to its ease of learning and simplicity of use.
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HotPaw Basic feature list:

• over 75 functions and 30 commands built-in;
• allows you to write BASIC programs in your MemoPad;
• simple built-in dialogs for displaying results and prompting for input parameters;
• custom form creation with user definable buttons, fields, checkboxes and pop-up lists;
• access to some standard database formats (including HanDBase 3, JFile and List) instead of a proprietary format;
• supports running Basic programs contained in pedit32 Memos or "Doc" files,
• sound and graphics commands, auto-scaling 2d and 3d plots, COLOR graphics; sound commands include tone and Morse code generation;
• support for the complete ANSI/ISO Minimal Basic programming language standard, most GWBasic(tm) functions and statements, plus block structured programming constructs (no line numbers required!);
• uses double precision floating point arithmetic and the MathLib transcendental function library;
• programmable ToDo, Datebook appointment and alarm creation;
• serial port, infrared(SIR), Bluetooth, and internet network socket communication support;
• compatible with the newest Palm OS 5.2 devices;
• includes several example programs;
• and more...

HotPaw Basic requires Palm OS 3.1 or higher and the MathLib library.

Download a beta test release of HotPaw Basic version 1.4.7b0 - (zip archive including documentation),  


HotPaw Basic also requires that you have the MathLib 1.1 library installed. (zip archive, LGPL, local copy )

HotPaw Basic Documentation and Example Programs:

• HotPaw Basic README text and Quick Reference Documentation - ( this is the most up-to-date documentation )
  
• An excellent HotPaw Basic Tutorial - Contributed by greertech.com  
  
• Basic Language text man page reference (just the Basic syntax) , HotPaw Basic preliminary HTML documentation (web page, obsolete version) , HotPaw Basic revision history , BCMD plug-in module source code and documentation (methods of extending HotPaw Basic for add-on developers).
• Some older tutorial material and some examples for HotPaw Basic

• Buy The Essential Palm Programming Guide a book by Christian Immler, which covers HotPaw Basic programming in detail.
  Info on another book in German on hardware interfacing using HotPaw Basic.
• Join the Yahoo Groups HotPaw Basic discussion forum to ask questions, share information, see problem reports, and find (or contribute) more HotPaw Basic programs. (New URL)

• LoanCalc.bas - an example of using the equation solver built into HotPaw Basic to solve for payment, interest rate or loan principal. (images)
  
• example MemoPlot.bas a HotPaw Basic program to graph data from your MemoPad (draws line graphs and XY scatter plots, also calculates some statistics on the data, zip file, version 1.4)
  
• example Parametric Graphing program for HotPaw Basic (text, includes subroutines for autoscaling chart grid)
• example Match Icons game in HotPaw Basic version with launchable applet.
• example Kanji Match Icons game in HotPaw Basic version with launchable applet.
• contributed RsrcMan 1.11, a Visual Form Editor for HotPaw Basic, by Magnus Wohlen .
• contributed Bitman custom bitmap editor in HotPaw Basic, by Magnus Wohlen .
• a website with some HotPaw Basic example code, plus tutorials and a new GUI editor, by Simon Nattress
• More small example programs for HotPaw Basic
• Matt Smith's Page has a nice Graphing program in Basic that will plot up to 6 user defined functions. (Written for the older cbasPad classic, but still compatible with HotPaw Basic.)
• greenchile505's HotPaw Basic (yBasic) website (example programs and tutorials)

MELD Data Acquisition System an analog data acquisition system supporting HotPaw Basic

There's also an experimental release of the new cbasPad5 a (pno)armlet Basic interpreter, for OS 5 only, here .

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HotPaw yLexiSpell

A Fun New Word Game: [screenshot]
• Given 4 to 6 scrambled letters, how many words of 3 or more letters can you find?
  Increase your score by finding longer words.
  Here's the twist: you get bonus points if you can spell a word backwards.
  Easy to play. Exercises your brain power.
  Includes a dictionary of over 9,000 words.
  You can choose between playing timed and untimed games.
  Keeps a record of your high score, average score and the percentage of words you've found.

• Download HotPaw yLexiSpell - version 0.2b0 (new version, updated for Treo 6x0 models) (zip file, 14-day Demo)  

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HotPaw Utilities for Palm OS handhelds

yCPUBench is a benchmarking utility to measure the speed and performance of your Palm OS handhelds CPU. yCPUBench can measure an OS 5 handhelds native ARM CPU's performance using ARM-pnolets, as well being able to measuring 68k (PACE emulated) performance for comparison. Includes floating point math performance (megaflops) and memory bandwidth tests. Free for personal non-commercial use.

Download yCPUBench - CPU Benchmark new Palm OS 5 handhelds (Tungsten, Treo, Zire) (version 0.9)

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Some Obsolete General Information about Palm Organizers

• Our Obsolete Palm OS Computing General Information Page
• Ron's Obsolete Short FAQ on PalmOS Handhelds ( Frequently Asked Questions and Answers for comp.sys.palmtops.pilot ; text version, less than 32K)

About HotPaw Productions...

HotPaw Productions is located in the heart of Silicon Valley. The founder of HotPaw Productions has been creating unique and powerful applications for the PalmPilots and the PalmOS Computing Platform since 1996, has over 15 years of experience in developing tools for the Basic programming language, and has been developing for the MacOS for over 20 years, including working with the creators of the original Macintosh User Interface, with the developers of the Amiga OS, and with the design team of the Nintendo-64. Former Top-10 applications created for the PalmPilot include cbasPad Tiny-Basic and the yMCal monthly calendar. Awards include the Best Symbol Application trophy in the PalmSource '99 programming contest. HotPaw Productions has also licensed software to several top Palm OS developers, including audio signal processing code to Aerodrome Software(tm), and numerical conversion subroutines to Cutting Edge Software(tm) for thier award winning Quicksheet spreadsheet. The founder of HotPaw Productions is a Palm OS Certified Developer, and an enrolled Apple iPhone Developer.



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