Thread: StyleTab makes Palm OS apps Pocket PC-compatible
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Old 04-28-2005, 04:21 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by lesliefranke
With conduits not being supported of how much use is this anyway?
I was wondering about that also. But for many applications, that might not be a problem if StyleTab writes Palm databases from memroy to PPC My Documents files that are synched to the desktop.

Consider ShadowPlan for example (one of my favorites, although Tombo is an excellent alternative on PPC). If the outlines are stored in a file in PPC My Documents, then it would be saved to my PC. It wouldn't really help much with using the Shadow desktop, I suppose, nor would all the extra code written to support multiple backups be supported, but you see what I mean. At least you would have a copy of your data that would be synched to the PC as a backup. That would be sufficient for me in a lot of cases.

There's a neat solitaire game on Palm that I could also use along with my other favorite PPC version (Solitaire City). That should also be fine without synch support, as would a lot of games. But high scores and preferences might be at risk if the info doesn't get synched to the PC as a file.

Another example of a game that works is from Shaun over at PDA24/7, who has tried Village Sim and says it "works perfectly".

I guess the key is to separate out the things that it can do from the things that it can't do, and get a handle on the stability. Especially if you start running into memory issues.
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