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How to make an Apple II computer fit on your wrist streampowers

About a year ago I came across an interesting article in Make Magazine about a guy who took his Fossil Wrist PDA and installed an Apple II emulator on it.   He was able to load many of the Apple II software titles and run them at regular speed.   The thought of having a fully functioning Apple computer on my wrist excited me enough to give it a try.      People that are attempting to do this should be familiar with the Palm OS as well as using jot or Graffiti 2 as an input method.   The Fossil Wrist PDA (now discontinued) features a tiny gray 160×160 pixel screen, the same number of pixels as most palm devices up to Palm III, with 16 shades of gray. The watch runs Palm OS 4.1 with its 66MHz processor and has a tiny stylus hidden in the watch clasp. It is able to carry out most PDA functions, and run any normal Palm OS-compatible application (up to 4.1). It features 8 Mb of RAM (about 7.7 Mb available to user) and 4 Mb of flash memory. Like other Palm OS de...