Overbite Palm 0.2

Overbite Palm 0.2, the Gopher client for classic Palm devices, is now available (see it running on real hardware). This update includes Shawn Mulligan's Sony Clié key patch (thanks!) plus more aggressive memory management and menu compression, which should not only increase the number and length of documents that 68K Palms with their pathetic dynamic heaps can view but also cut down on the fatal Plua-generated "out of memory" errors that our memory heuristics failed to anticipate. Additionally, all transfers are hard-capped to 32K raw data since this appears to be the empiric limit for the native scrolling text gadget. It was tested on my Palm Centro and AlphaSmart dana, as well as my emulated m515. You can get it from Github (plus Plua source, natch) and I will be making a place for it on the Floodgap gopher server as soon as I get a round tuit.

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