Several of the PC-based PD and Shareware programmers are trying to foster the development of software by making EPOC tools available. That is especially true of Alan Richey of RMR Software, and several of the Palmscape members. There are also resources available via other third-party Psion Web sites, including Steve Litchfield's 3-Lib, the Five Alive and Total S5 sites, and Daniel Pfund's list of Psion Programmers.
As a few examples:
OPLTXT3
which does
one way conversion from OPL to text, and comes with 1840 bytes of source
code in Turbo C++ format
What software tools would Acorn owners want to be available to help you write OPL programs on RISC OS machines? I can't make any promises, but there's a chance that if the requests are reasonable then someone may volunteer to come up with the programs. I suspect that a Pocket Book or Series 5 emulator for RISC OS would be a bit unlikely, but smaller tools should be perfectly possible, given sufficient interest.
Please let me know if you have anything you've developed to make
EPOC programming via RISC OS easier, and that you'd be happy to share with
others, or if you've any suggestions of other applications, or the time and
ability to produce some of the items requested.
Email me at JWoodthorpe@ndirect.co.uk and I'll
start a collection of suitable software to be made available via this site
and Archive Magazine. Ideally, I'd like to make the
applications themselves available (or link to other sites where they can be
downloaded), along with some instructions as to how you have used them, so
please contact me first rather than sending me a random selection of
undocumented files!
You can also use the form below to reply to me. If you're using the Message Suite, you'll get an error message saying that the next page can't be loaded. Don't worry - your message should still get to me!