Give him a hand: Dev publishes 25-year-old Palm OS tools to GitHub

A small but active community of retro computing enthusiasts is working to keep Palm OS alive, and a developer who recently became aware of their existence has just handed them a treasure trove of code he had no idea was still useful. Swedish developer Aaron Ardiri published around a gigabyte of Palm OS development resources on GitHub on Thursday in a bid to preserve them for community consumption. Prior to their upload, Ardiri told The Register that the files were languishing in his own personal backups for more than 25 years, preserved only for his own records as part of his past as a developer of Palm OS applications. “Everything in the archive was accumulated during my years as an active Palm OS developer,” Ardiri explained in an email. …