[deuill]

I was part of a project that helped bring a usable Linux distribution on this line of palmtops -- JLime (you can find references on the net, but the main site has since gone dark). This includes the 620LX, 660LX, 680 and 690 (based on SH-3 processors), as well as the 710 and 720 (based on ARM processors).

I personally had the 690, which was suprisingly usable (and probably still is), even with its 133MHz CPU and 32MB of RAM. Finding and porting software was, even in ~2006, especially hard, given the hardware constraints and unique screen aspect ratio (640x240 resolution).

I still have the page for the distribution up here[0], and a software repository set up here[1], in case the author (if they see this) or anyone else that has any of these machines stashed away is feeling adventurous...

[0]: https://deuill.org/code/jlime-vargtass/ [1]: https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/vargtass/

[InAnEmergency]

(Author here)

I did spend quite a bit of time on your site, linked sites, and webarchive. The files on your site did not work out of the box for me. I did eventually get a combination of kernel and configuration that kind of worked, but I think the CompactFlash card was too big. It stalled out on hard drive interrupts.

[deuill]

Ah, that's too bad! AFAIR zrafa's site[0] was the place to go for bootloader/kernel files specific to the 620LX/660LX, but the userland should work on any 6xx series.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150626030407/http://fz.hobby-s...

[mschuster91]

Thanks, I'll have a dig in the basement then I guess! Is the bootloader code open source?

[deuill]

Indeed it is/was, though I cannot seem to find an original copy on the internet, so I uploaded to the repository[0]. I'm not sure what the requisite toolchain is, though.

[0]: https://repository.deuill.org/hp6xx/misc/jshlo-1.1.0-CE-2.11...

[mschuster91]

Toolchain probably is Visual Studio 6 with the Windows CE SDK.

[znpy]

Hey, I have used JLime on my Jornada 728 back in the day, thank you for your work!