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

A Swedish developer named Aaron Ardiri recently shared a massive collection of Palm OS development resources on GitHub, after realizing the value of these tools for retro computing enthusiasts. Over a gigabyte of Palm OS development materials, including SDKs, documentation, conference presentations, utilities, examples, and limited system source code, had been tucked away in Ardiri's personal backups for more than two and a half decades.

The developer had previously shared his own Palm OS app source code on GitHub but never anticipated the ongoing interest in the older Palm OS software. Upon discovering enthusiastic Palm OS communities on platforms like Reddit, Discord, and others, Ardiri recognized the potential usefulness of the archived resources. He published the materials on GitHub, taking care not to infringe any copyrights by omitting sensitive items such as ROM images, firmware, simulators, and commercial apps.

Ardiri views this as a preservation of history, aiming to prevent the loss of early mobile development knowledge. His discovery has resulted in the rediscovery of a once-thought-old period of his own career and provided a valuable historical record to a vibrant community of Palm OS enthusiasts.