[drzoltar]

I’ve always wanted to get one of these old Apple Newtons and trying to upgrade the built in handwriting recognition system with something a bit more modern, within the limitations of having 8mb of ram :). Anyone have any experience hacking them?

[LeoPanthera]

I think it would be more interesting to run under emulation. The hardware is getting a bit old and creaky these days. Under emulation it could enjoy a considerable CPU and RAM boost.

An iPad with a pencil would be an ideal target.

(Given that it uses an ARM processor, maybe you wouldn't need to emulate it, on A and M-chip devices.)

[NobodyNada]

> (Given that it uses an ARM processor, maybe you wouldn't need to emulate it, on A and M-chip devices.)

The Newton has a 32-bit ARM processor, whereas all of Apple's processors for the last ~5 years have only implemented AArch64.

[rgovostes]

Here you go: https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein

You need to locate the ROM. The Internet Archive has some: https://archive.org/download/AppleNewtonROMs

[LeoPanthera]

Delightful!