Palm Pre Classic emulator demoed on video

Longtime Palm fans are gonna want to lock the doors and turn down the lights -- our friends at PhoneScoop just got the first demo of Motion App's Classic Palm OS emulator for the Palm Pre. Palm OS apps can be installed by just dragging the .prc files over the Pre in mass storage mode, and they're run as though they were on an SD card. There's no tethered HotSync, although there's a compatibility mode of some kind and apps will be able to pull data down over the air. Check the video after the break, including a demo of ePocrates, which we know a lot of potential Pre owners are interested in.

[brolin Posted Apr 2nd 2009 4:36PM]

Inail in the apple coffin!!!!

OH yeah and 1RST!! (sorry had to do that )

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2009 4:39PM]

That's great! I'm able to keep some app I have on my crap Centro. (I miss Treo 700p)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2009 5:08PM]

Killer app. Thousands of apps available on Day 1? Game over, iPhone.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2009 6:34PM]

Yeah- & they all look like 1999.

Back in the game iPhone...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 2nd 2009 5:18PM]

Cool.
I can now run blazer on the pre

[000000 Posted Apr 4th 2009 2:28PM]

That's good. I hope you're being sarcastic. You can never tell on this site...

Seriously though as outdated as a lot and I mean A LOT of the Palm OS apps look a lot of them are very functional. This is just a super bonus for the Pre. Nice. Make me perk up even a bit more for it. Assuming this "emulator" runs good. Which I have my doubts.