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Newton users

StarbucksSam said:
I've had a Newton 130 for a while, I just sold it off yesterday.
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I've watned a Newton for a while, I just bought one yesterday. :p Same Newton in case all of ya wanna know... :D

Any helpful hints on what to do/what not to do?

Its a MP130, and I have a Lucent wireless card and some Ethernet card from laptops around the house. Is there a way to connect it to my Mac? What about a PC running Basilisk II? Methinks you get the idea... "Newton Newbie Wants to Learn about what she can do with it"
 
Using Newton

I have a good collection of Newton items, 100,110,120,130, 2000, 2001, eMate, Sharp Expert Pad but only use them from time to time which is sad but I think they are superb and would love to have the time to experiment more! one day maybe...

www.mac-collection.co.uk
 
I'm not savvy with the Newtons, but I am really intrigued by them... anyways, this may be a really stupid question, but seeing as the NewtonOS runs on the StrongARM CPU has there been any attempts to use it on a modern ARM machine, like a pocketpc? I know alot of people like the Newton because of it's larger screen, etc, but alot also like it because of the NewtonOS.

Anyways, I'd love to try a Newt, but currently saving for an iMac, so I can't spare any cash... is there an emulator or something? I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron, anyone want to part with a fixer upper? :)

Rob
 
There is a NewtonOS emulator, but it's not at all functional at this point. It's for UNIX and the website is here: http://gnuton.sourceforge.net/

The OS is not Open Source and Apple still retains the rights to it and all that, so for the time being it cannot be ported I believe.

Newtons can be had cheap on eBay I think, have you considered that?
 
mrgreen4242 said:
I'm not savvy with the Newtons, but I am really intrigued by them... anyways, this may be a really stupid question, but seeing as the NewtonOS runs on the StrongARM CPU has there been any attempts to use it on a modern ARM machine, like a pocketpc? I know alot of people like the Newton because of it's larger screen, etc, but alot also like it because of the NewtonOS.

Anyways, I'd love to try a Newt, but currently saving for an iMac, so I can't spare any cash... is there an emulator or something? I'm pretty handy with a soldering iron, anyone want to part with a fixer upper? :)

Rob
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I have one for sale if you want it. Its a message pad 120.
 
5300cs said:
There is a NewtonOS emulator, but it's not at all functional at this point. It's for UNIX and the website is here: http://gnuton.sourceforge.net/

The OS is not Open Source and Apple still retains the rights to it and all that, so for the time being it cannot be ported I believe.

Newtons can be had cheap on eBay I think, have you considered that?
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I know that the Newton OS is not opensource, and Apple still owns it, etc. I think that the way I would 'port' the NewtonOS to a modern handheld is to emulate the Newton hardware on a modern PDA that uses a CPU that is backward compatible with the StrongARM chips used in the actual Newton. An abstraction layer if you will...

writing a program that runs on a PDA that then loads the Newton ROM and 'intercepts' Newton hardware calls, translating them into something the host machine understands, and then translating the results. This is basically how WINE (a Windows "emulator" for Linux works), and has proven to be a very fast and effective method.

Personally, I'm probably not anywhere near up to the challenge, but maybe someday I will be, or this idea will occur to someone who is!

Rob

PS I use a Linux machine ATM, so I will check out GNUton, thanks for the link!
 
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