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New arrival today, I’ve never used a 5 in anger before, so know very little about how to get software on it or even what software is available. I don’t even know if there’s compatibility with the 3 series #RetroComputing
@jonn_blanchard You can get a large amount of software from mypsion.ru, translation needed but the software is in English. I have created a bundle for writing/playing text-adventures that includes the plain-text editor (the ROM doesn’t include one), and the installer utility to allow installing software on-device on Series 5: https://GitHub.com/Kroc/Informer
@kroc ah, my issue was I didn’t realise the .exe were run on device - cheers
@jonn_blanchard So, fun fact, the reason an ARM device uses Windows' PortableExecutable format is because they didn't know it was going to be ARM until very late! A number of chips were being evaluated and so the OS was developed on Windows as a simulated environment compiling to x86, much as the iOS Simulator did on Intel
@jonn_blanchard Everything about the #Psion 5 is incredibly advanced for its time. The OS was developed from scratch, written entirely in C++, in 1996! There has only been 2 other commercial C++ OSes, ever -- #BeOS and Google's #Fuchsia