Jan, Ben: Thank you both for your thoughts.
The game that I wrote (see my earlier thread about "AccessorDispatch") is a fairly simple one that I intend to release as freeware, mainly because it will be my first public offering of a Palm application. (Still needs a bit of work, though.) So, it would fit into the "non-paying Palm" market that Jan mentioned. Also, as I mentioned before, my own Palm PDA is the m500 running OS 4.0, and is quite sufficient for my needs. I like the slimmer case that can fit in my shirt pocket (WITH my reading glasses case, no less!) and, as I also mentioned, I much prefer the original Graffiti over Graffiti 2. (My "other half" has a Tungsten E. I find it is slower to write in Graffiti 2 than in the original Graffiti, because of those extra strokes.) MOST of my friends with PalmOS-based PDAs have older OS versions (OS 4.0 or earlier; not just Palm, but also Sony Clie, Handspring Visor, etc.) (Abeit, I *do* consider my Tungsten-E-touting wife to be my friend, too. ;-) As well, my next major Palm project will involve an application for a particular hobby market. I expect that most users for this application will still be ones with older OS's. So, from my own experience, I have to disagree with the thinking that writers of new applications should not make any attempt to support older OS's. If an application does not necessarily need colour or any of the newer features of the more recent Palm's, (navigation rocker, etc.) then there should be no reason to leave users of older Palm PDA's behind. Sure, maybe the bigger software market consists of corporate types whose companies can buy the latest and greatest Palm PDA's for them, but there is still a considerable base consisting of "home" users who cannot afford to "upgrade" their PDAs every three months. Well, that's my CDN$0.02 anyway. (That's gotta be at least worth half a cent US. :) Oh, that's another thing. The average Canuck has to work about 1.5 times longer than the average USian to pay for those expensive Palm devices! So, we have have more incentive to make the older ones last a bit longer. And sorry about my earlier rant. It came from the frustration of learning that I cannot obtain the earlier OS ROM images (which is still a frustration for me, but I should not have ranted, even though I still think Xerox are The Bad Guys in all of this). Best regards, Ed. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
