5 thoughts on “Capers: Anyone interested in taking the code further?”
Hell yes!>>I remember reading about some exciting Palm MIDI apps around 1998-2001, and the Capers project involved IMO many of the most interesting. If I recall, these were made by Noah Vawter and Brian Whitman? >>Meanwhile I took my “PDAs” on the road – circuit-bent toys and a DR-110 drum machine. Had lots of fun, but went unemployed for about four years, broke, and never got a Palm.>>Now I am “settled” and employed (so now I have no time anymore). And this week bought a Treo 650! My first Palm! It’ll arrive in a few days. So this weekend I am looking up the cool apps I remember. Making a MIDI interface to the Treo will not be easy, but it’ll happen. And I hope the music apps I want to try will work, since some of the are probably old 68k code. Still, I’m sure I can nab a PalmIII for a few dollars these days.>>And I’ve been pondering Palm code development. Yes, I am a bit novice, having hardly coded anything. But I haven’t found everything I’ve looked for in software, so I knew I’d need to try writing some. Got to get some books on “Garnet” era Palm.>>And wouldn’t you know… source for stuff like Carpetbomb, Tractorpull, and Hedgehog was exactly the best sort of thing I could (not quite hope to!) find. So, yes! Definately. I really want to check out these Palm MIDI APIs.>>Thanks for keeping the flame alive. BTW, it’d be handy if there were links on the current blog page to look back at previous weeks – I found this entirely by accident.>>L8tRz!
Hell yes!>>I remember reading about some exciting Palm MIDI apps around 1998-2001, and the Capers project involved IMO many of the most interesting. If I recall, these were made by Noah Vawter and Brian Whitman? >>Meanwhile I took my “PDAs” on the road – circuit-bent toys and a DR-110 drum machine. Had lots of fun, but went unemployed for about four years, broke, and never got a Palm.>>Now I am “settled” and employed (so now I have no time anymore). And this week bought a Treo 650! My first Palm! It’ll arrive in a few days. So this weekend I am looking up the cool apps I remember. Making a MIDI interface to the Treo will not be easy, but it’ll happen. And I hope the music apps I want to try will work, since some of the are probably old 68k code. Still, I’m sure I can nab a PalmIII for a few dollars these days.>>And I’ve been pondering Palm code development. Yes, I am a bit novice, having hardly coded anything. But I haven’t found everything I’ve looked for in software, so I knew I’d need to try writing some. Got to get some books on “Garnet” era Palm.>>And wouldn’t you know… source for stuff like Carpetbomb, Tractorpull, and Hedgehog was exactly the best sort of thing I could (not quite hope to!) find. So, yes! Definately. I really want to check out these Palm MIDI APIs.>>Thanks for keeping the flame alive. BTW, it’d be handy if there were links on the current blog page to look back at previous weeks – I found this entirely by accident.>>L8tRz!
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Oh, incidently, I am acousmatique@yahoo.com>aka CJ Miller>aka Metrophage
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I wish those guys would let the code be released and maybe someone else could take it forward.
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Shame this never happened.
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Would have been good
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