DIGITAL DETOX LIFE WITH NOSTALGIC TECH
Palm in theReiwa Era!?
Offline digital life, back in your shirt pocket.
2026-08-11WEB / PRINT EDITION
PHOTO: PRIVATE COLLECTION
Contents
- 01TransferTimeTokyoSee the wait for the next train or bus at a glance.4—5
- 02Oicho StocksThe world's markets on a 160×160 trading board.6—7
- 03Ohisama HitotsuCome rain, there's always tomorrow!8—9
- 04PilGom KaiFill your Palm with the latest Reiwa-era news, then head out.10—11
- 052ch Meisakusen ReaderDig through twenty-year-old logs on a twenty-year-old handheld.12—13
- 06Keisan CardTwenty years on, maths becomes play on Palm.14—15
- 07Palm AirportCaptain! Let’s pick our flight date on a Palm.16—17
- 08Bring your Palm out of the cupboard.INSTALL / HOTSYNC / EMULATOR18—19
- 09The complete app directoryDOWNLOADS / COLOPHON20—21
THE FUTURE IN YOUR PALM KEEPS EVOLVING.
In the smartphone age,
choose Palm.
160×160—roughly a tenth of a smartphone’s resolution. Check the timetable, board the train, then pull Palm from a shirt pocket for a glance at yesterday’s market.
“Is the market beginning to run a little hot? Ah, I promised the kid we’d go to the seaside tomorrow—what was the forecast? Good: sunshine through the afternoon.”
Oh, Nihombashi already. Palm slips back into the pocket on the way to the office. It still holds that small digital thrill we remember.
Twenty years on, step into a world of new Reiwa-era Palmware. Take that Palm from the cupboard and pick up the stylus once more.
Editor and developer: Zeusu
NOSTALGIC& USEFUL
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS / PUBLIC DOMAIN
TransferTimeTokyo
See the wait for the next train or bus at a glance.
Up to fifteen Tokyo rail and bus routes. Your Palm becomes the departure board for the lines you use every day.
In the palm
Morning train. Evening bus. The connection in between. Arrange five favourite routes per page across up to three pages, and see the wait to each next departure at once.
Windows Updater prepares the timetable data; HotSync slips it into your pocket. Weekday, Saturday, and holiday schedules switch automatically, while a familiar 160×160 screen keeps the commute moving.
01
Highlights
- Up to fifteen departure boards: five per page across three pages
- Favourite routes arranged anywhere on the screen
- Automatic weekday, Saturday, Sunday, and Japanese holiday selection
- Three colour-coded countdown bands, with greyscale on monochrome Palms
- Touch, Page Up/Down, and directional keys from list to continuous detail view
02
Take it for a spin
- 01
Install one PRC: Japanese or English.
- 02
In TransferTimeUpdater.exe, register up to fifteen stations, stops, and directions.
- 03
Choose the Palm Desktop user, queue the timetable PDB, and HotSync.
- 04
Launch the app for the list; tap any route for its detail view.
03
Compatibility
- Palm OS 3.1 or later; 68K
- Standard 160×160 display
- Monochrome and colour handhelds
- Updater: 64-bit Windows with Palm Desktop and HotSync Manager
Japanese and English Palm builds share one application identity. Choose one for the handheld.
Download
PalmDB
Free on PalmDB: Japanese and English PRCs, plus a 64-bit Windows updater.
OPEN ON PALMDB ↗Oicho Stocks
The world's markets on a 160×160 trading board.
Indexes, currencies, yields and volatility, crypto, commodities—price histories and charts for all forty series in your pocket.
In the palm
Five asset classes, eight series apiece: forty gauges of the world economy packed into one small screen. Open a symbol for open, high, low, close, plus day, week, and month changes.
Twenty daily candles, plus term structures for U.S. Treasuries and VIX. Windows fetches the latest market data; HotSync carries it to Palm.
01
Highlights
- Five groups of eight: equity indexes, FX, yields and volatility, crypto, and commodities
- Open, high, low, close, and day/week/month changes in one detail view
- Up to twenty daily candles for each series
- U.S. rate and VIX term-structure curves, comparisons, and twenty observation days
- Fresh data collected by the updater and brought in through HotSync
02
Take it for a spin
- 01
Install one language PRC; launch it once on the Palm.
- 02
In MarketUpdater.exe, choose the Palm Desktop user.
- 03
Refresh the markets; HotSync PalmMarketData.pdb.
- 04
Open the app, then tap a feature, asset class, or symbol to explore the market.
03
Compatibility
- Palm OS 3.1 or later; 68K
- Standard 160×160 display
- Monochrome and colour handhelds
- Updater: 64-bit Windows with Palm Desktop and HotSync Manager
The launcher is おいちょ株 in Japanese and OichoKabu in English. Both PRCs share one application identity; choose one.
Download
PalmDB
Free on PalmDB: Japanese and English PRCs, plus a 64-bit Windows updater.
OPEN ON PALMDB ↗Ohisama Hitotsu
Come rain, there's always tomorrow!
Seven-day and four-hour forecasts, with eleven major cities across Japan to choose from. One HotSync brings today's sky into view on Palm.
In the palm
The Weekly screen shows seven days including today; Time follows each day in four-hour steps. Temperature, rain chance, humidity, and wind stay compact and clear.
See the weather in eleven Japanese cities at a glance. OhisamaUpdater prepares the Open-Meteo forecast; HotSync sends fresh data to Palm. Your handheld reads the sky ahead.
01
Highlights
- Seven days including today, with highs, lows, rain chance, and humidity
- Detailed forecasts in four-hour steps
- Temperature, rain chance, humidity, and wind along one timeline
- Eleven city forecasts across a map of Japan
- Selectable location, with touch and hardware-key navigation
02
Take it for a spin
- 01
Install one PRC: Japanese or English.
- 02
In OhisamaUpdater.exe, choose the Palm Desktop user.
- 03
Run Update now or automatic update; HotSync the fresh forecast.
- 04
Tour Weekly, Time, and Japan. Set the display location on the About screen.
03
Compatibility
- Palm OS 3.1 or later; 68K
- Standard 160×160 display
- Monochrome and colour handhelds
- Updater: 64-bit Windows with Palm Desktop and HotSync Manager
Launchers are named お日さん in Japanese and Ohisama in English. Both PRCs share one application identity; choose one.
Download
PalmDB
Free on PalmDB: Japanese and English PRCs, plus a 64-bit Windows updater.
OPEN ON PALMDB ↗PilGom Kai
Fill your Palm with the latest Reiwa-era news, then head out.
Ten RSS or Atom feeds, fifty items. Each morning's HotSync turns Palm into the morning paper.
In the palm
Five items per feed, up to ten feeds in one PDB. Beneath a beautiful Wikimedia Commons photograph sit the feed name and its top five stories.
On the article screen, buttons let you scroll and continue into other stories. Windows Updater gathers the latest items; HotSync prints a fresh edition.
01
Highlights
- Ten RSS 2.0 or Atom feeds, five items each and fifty in total
- Photograph, feed title, navigation, and five article rows on one screen
- Read/unread marks and circular movement across feed boundaries
- Vertically scrolling copy beneath fixed navigation controls
- Beautiful photographs tuned for monochrome and colour screens
02
Take it for a spin
- 01
Install the Japanese PRC.
- 02
In PilGomKaiUpdater.exe, enter one to ten feed URLs.
- 03
Choose the Palm Desktop user. Run Update now or automatic update; HotSync.
- 04
Tour feeds with Page Up/Down. Tap an article row to read.
03
Compatibility
- Palm OS 3.1 or later; 68K
- Standard 160×160 display
- 1-bit, four-grey, sixteen-grey, and colour handhelds
- Japanese Palm OS or a compatible Japanese environment
- Updater: 64-bit Windows with Palm Desktop and HotSync Manager
Runs on Japanese Palm OS.
2ch Meisakusen Reader
Dig through twenty-year-old logs on a twenty-year-old handheld.
One post per screen. Choose the reading orientation that suits you, and settle in for a long one.
In the palm
A twenty-year-old message board feels just right on a twenty-year-old screen.
Each work lives in its own PDB. Turn the reading screen portrait, clockwise, or counterclockwise, and assign six hardware keys for each orientation. Bookmarks are saved per work, keeping your place through the longest reads.
01
Highlights
- One post per screen, with scrolling
- Portrait, clockwise, or counterclockwise reading orientation
- Six hardware-key assignments for each orientation
- Post-number jump and a saved reading position for each work
- Compatible work PDBs shelved automatically, with books added or removed one at a time
02
Take it for a spin
- 01
Unpack the Reader ZIP; install the 0.1.2 JP PRC.
- 02
Use the Windows Builder to download a work, turn it into a PDB, then sync it with HotSync.
- 03
Open a work with a tap or the five-way centre.
- 04
Turn pages with the upper and lower screen halves. Tailor each orientation's keys in Settings.
03
Compatibility
- Palm OS 3.5 or later; 68K
- Standard 160×160 display
- Japanese Palm OS or a Japanese font environment
- The rotating reading canvas remains 1-bit black-on-white, even on colour devices
Runs on Japanese Palm OS.
Download
PalmDB
Free on PalmDB: Reader 0.1.2 PRC, original four-post sample PDB, and Windows Builder.
OPEN ON PALMDB ↗Keisan Card
Twenty years on, maths becomes play on Palm.
Flip through fact cards, then solve missing-number puzzles. Six stages turn addition and subtraction into a steady climb.
In the palm
Ten questions make a game, with fact-card and missing-number modes.
Ten points a question; 100 clears the game. Ten clears unlock the next level.
01
Highlights
- Six progressive levels of addition and subtraction with numbers from 0 to 19
- Randomly generated addition and subtraction
- Fact cards and missing-number problems
- Both on-screen and hardware-button controls
- Saved clear counts and unlocked levels
02
Take it for a spin
- 01
Choose a launcher language; install that PRC.
- 02
Tap a level—or select it with Page Up/Down—and press Memo.
- 03
Answer with the on-screen controls or the hardware buttons.
- 04
Answer all ten correctly for one clear; ten clears unlock the next level.
03
Compatibility
- Palm OS 3.1 or later; 68K
- Standard 160×160 application area
- Monochrome game interface, with monochrome and colour launcher icons
- Smooth play even on the Palm OS 3.1 Handspring Visor Deluxe
App names: けいさんカード and Keisan Card. Runs in Japanese and English environments.
Download
PalmDB
Free on PalmDB: Japanese- and English-launcher PRCs, plus the complete ZIP.
OPEN ON PALMDB ↗Palm Airport
Captain! Let’s pick our flight date on a Palm.
Eight routes, ninety days ahead. The latest fares and flights, in the palm of your hand.
In the palm
Set a route in the Windows Updater—origin, destination, and dates. The calendar lays out each day’s fare at a glance, and Palm points to the right time to fly.
Tap a promising day to compare airline, fare, departure and arrival, direct or connecting, and duration. Open a flight to see an itinerary of up to three legs on one screen.
01
Highlights
- Fares and flights for up to eight routes, from today to ninety days ahead
- A monthly calendar paints each day’s lowest fare in a colourful gradient
- Up to twelve flights per day, sorted by price
- Airline, fare, times, direct or connecting, duration, and itineraries of up to three legs
- The desktop Updater refreshes the data; every Palm view works offline
02
Take it for a spin
- 01
Install either the Japanese or English PRC on the Palm.
- 02
Unpack the full ZIP, open PalmAirportUpdater.exe, and set airports, date range, and number of stops.
- 03
Choose the Palm Desktop user and update. Once the transfer is queued, run the usual HotSync.
- 04
Pick a route, then a day, then a flight. Browse by touch or hardware key.
03
Compatibility
- Palm OS 3.1 or later; 68K
- Standard 160×160 display
- Monochrome, greyscale, and colour handhelds
- Updater: 64-bit Windows with Palm Desktop and HotSync Manager
Japanese and English Palm builds share one application identity. Choose one for the handheld.
Download
PalmDB
Free on PalmDB: Japanese and English PRCs, plus a 64-bit Windows updater.
OPEN ON PALMDB ↗Bring your Palm out of the cupboard.
HotSync works on Windows 11. Hear that familiar “pi-ro-ree♪” once more.
Install on a Palm
- 01
Download the ZIP from PalmDB and unpack it.
- 02
Send the PRC to Palm Desktop Quick Install. For apps with a Windows updater, run it to prepare the PDB, too.
- 03
HotSync. A fresh icon appears in the launcher.
ZIPDOWNLOAD
→PRCQUICK INSTALL
→PALMHOTSYNC
Try it in a browser
Load a compatible ROM from your Palm into CloudPilotEmu, then drag and drop the PRC to try it straight away.
cloudpilot-emu.github.io ↗Compatibility
See each app spread for Palm OS version, colour support and additional data requirements.
The complete app directory
Find current releases and ZIPs on PalmDB. Scan a QR code and you’re there.
About this magazine
An independent magazine for getting the most from Palm in the Reiwa era. The 2026-08-11 edition presents seven new Palmware titles, all born in Reiwa.
Colophon notes
Release terms: see each README and PalmDB page. Trademarks: their respective owners. Concept, editing and publication: Zeusu Sato.
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
The cover was taken at a ferry pier in Onomichi, Hiroshima, the author’s hometown, while his son played on a Visor Deluxe. The back cover was photographed at Nihombashi Station in Tokyo, where the author works.
REIWA PALM MAGAZINE / 2026-08-11 EDITION
Connecting past and future in the palm of your hand.
More new Palmware is on its way.
AN INDEPENDENT PALMWARE JOURNAL / FIRST PUBLISHED 11 AUGUST 2026 / PHOTO: PRIVATE COLLECTION
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