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New
programs
from
the
S.U.P.E.R
Internet
site
One of the best Internet sites
out there today
for
the HP
palmtop
is S.
U.P.E.R
.
(Simply Unbeatable Palmtop
Essentials Repository).
The page is hosted by
Mitchell Hamm and the other
members of the
S.U.P.E.A.
team:
Toshiki
Sasabe
(Japan),
Jorgen
Wallgren
(Singapore), Peter Watkins
(Washington
D.C.,
USA),
and Rattipat Aramwatana-
pong
(Thailand)
who
is
known
as
"Fong."
Just as the name says,
this page
is
SUPER for palm-
top users. Different pages
on
the site allow
you
to view
different groups of software.
The
place I
go
first
is
the new
additions
page
(at
http://
www.palmtop.netisuperne
w.html).
This
is
where I see what
new programs have come to
the site within the last 10-14
days. There is also a page
where you can view the top
20
downloads;
this
page
gives
me an
idea
of
what
programs are being used the
most.
And
then
there
is
the
site's main page, which
as
of
today
contained
over
200
pieces of software that work
on
, or with, the HP palmtops.
Some
of
the
software
available
on
the
site
includes:
PALRUN • (12
K)
Version
1.01
by
Harry Konstas. PAL-
RUN is a freeware applica-
tion that allows PAL applica-
tions to
be
run on any IBM
compatible computer.
Usually, a PAL applica-
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LXMAP displaying a map of Berlin, in German. Maps of other cities are in English (or other lan-
guages). You can choose which area of the full-sized map you want enlarged for display.
tion
is a
program
that
is
designed to run only
on
the
HP100/200LX
series
of
palmtops.
The
reason
that
PAL applications won't run
directly on
regular desktop
computers is that
HP palm-
tops use a special graphics
mode which is not
available
on
other
computers.
PAL-
RUN
operates easily; simply
type PALRUN
followed
by
the name of your
PAL appli-
cation.
LXMAP •
(21
K)
Version 2.0
by
Stefan Peichl. LXMAP
is
a
copyrighted
freeware
city
map viewer that uses LXPIC
as
its display engine (Screen
1).
After
scanning
a map,
you
load it into LXMAP. The
program will show you where
on
the
map
the
street
is
located. Very fast and help-
ful.
The number of cities for
which maps are available is
increasing
all
the
time
at
www.palmtop.neVlxmap.html.
Newton Keyboard Driver .
(22
K)
Version
0.4
by K.
Adachi.
Newton
Keyboard
Driver
is
a copyrighted free-
ware TSR that will allow
you
to use
an
Apple Newton key-
board
(PIN X0035LUA) with
the
100/200LX
(see Screen
2.). One of the things
that
has been on a
lot
of wish
lists
is
the ability to use a full-
sized keyboard on the HP
Screen
2.
Here
is
a picture of the
HP
200LX
connected to the Newton keyboard.
Palmtop, and this seems to
answer that prayer. This pro-
ject requires fabrication of a
custom
cable to connect the
Newton keyboard to the seri-
al port of the Palmtop. The
documentation
file contains
instructions
on
how to make
the custom cable, along with
the hardware that
is
needed.
TYME • (50
K)
Version 1.0
by Dennis Bell. TYME is a
shareware
billing manage-
ment system for
use
by
pro-
fessional
consultants
who
track their time
in
small incre-
ments
spread
over
many
clients or cases.
TAPEMAKER
• (61 K)
Version
1.
5a
by
Robert
Alexander. TAPEMAKER is
a unique shareware program
that helps you choose songs
to record
on
a cassette tape.
Many
other
tape
pro-
grams are little more than
glorified typewriters:
you
type
in
the song titles and the pro-
gram prints out a piece of
paper with song titles
on
it.
TapeMaker's approach
is
that if you're going to do all
that typing, you should get
some extra benefit from it.
TapeMaker
lets
you know
how many songs can fit
on
the cassette, finds the best
order to record them
in
(so
that you have the minimum
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BER
1997 33