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by Derek Kessler Wed, 01 Dec 2010 8:47 am EST

New in the App Catalog

Are you ready for new apps? Well, it doesn’t matter, because they’re here anyway. Bam!

  • PCE.emu is a full-fledged PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 (TG16) emulator, with support for hundreds of games (so long as you have the ROM) and runs at up to 60 frames per second with on-screen multi-touch countrols.
  • Christmas Budget is here to help you keep your holiday spending on budget, on time and on target. And we all know that’s a hard thing to do.

More apps? Sure, we got them. After the break, naturally.

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29 Comments

Posted by abendugo on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 9:08 am EST

Just another bundle of junk apps. Seriously Palm? Seriously?

Posted by brendilon on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 9:25 am EST

Quit yer frakking whining. It's not like Palm is the one developing these.

Oh, and Palm is dead, it's HP now.

Posted by janter on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:07 am EST

Seriously. What are you blaming Palm for when they aren't the ones developing these apps.
These "Junk" apps you speak of help WebOS statistically from a number of apps perspective.
Whenever you hear, "Iphone has 300,000 apps" you don't see it followed up with "but 200,000 of those apps are considered junk apps."
Stop complaining and be grateful for what we have now and what's coming our way.

Posted by brendilon on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:51 pm EST

More like 297,000 of the 300,000 are junk.

Posted by ninjasinc on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 1:43 pm EST

Which is still 3000 more quality apps than WebOS has.

Posted by Spyral on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 2:26 pm EST

Even apps released by the same company are inferior on webOS. Angry Birds, Evernote, Gamefly's GameCenter to name a few. It's the only reason I'm discontent with the platform. Companies just don't take webOS seriously and we, the users, lose for it.

Posted by janter on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 2:31 pm EST

Well Android was in this situation about 3 years ago. Not a lot of apps for it. No one really cared for it.
Then they put android on many devices and voila developers think "hey, if i write an app for android it's not good just for 1 device but all these android devices."
I believe right now we are seeing the same trend with WebOS. Right now developers are thinking "why bother. look at the pixi and the pre. two tiny devices". But once they release a whole line of hardware running webos developers will want to get in on it.

Posted by blz2 on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 3:07 pm EST

That was back when the only competition was iOS. Different world now. It's not goin to be that easy. Now that there are millions of users for Android & iOS versus the 16 left running webOS.

Posted by ninjasinc on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 3:28 pm EST

15 left, actually. I just saw someone on the forum switch to an Epic.

Posted by blackmagic01 on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 3:49 pm EST

problem. WebOS is not getting licensed like Android to be on 40 devices it may be on 5 or 6 maybe so webos isn't following the same trend as Android. And if developers think "why bother" there are few reasons consumers should.

Regardless the app situation isn't change. It's not gonna explode with quality apps. It's not going to explode with the brand name apps everyone has been clamoring for since launch. It's not gonna explode cause they released a pre on Verizon and AT&T. Remember those days. It's not gonna get 50 quality new apps at the end of the week with Palm just waiting to open the flood gates. Palm's not "holding back" the good apps to reward the early app submissions. I just don't think its coming. Want to change it? sell 4 or 5 million phones soon.

Posted by rsanchez1 on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 6:10 pm EST

Browse the new apps in the app catalog, and you'll find one app that is most definitely not junk: Battle for Wesnoth. I definitely recommend you try this one.

Posted by Donmeister85 on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 9:23 am EST

OMFG. Appbookshop is at it again. I always wanted to know WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A COMPUTER. WOOOOOO

Posted by cygnusx12112 on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:00 am EST

Wow, what a slooooow news week.

Posted by rlopin on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:31 am EST

Yeah, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend tends to slow things down in every industry as folks take extended days off.

Posted by UntidyGuy on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:38 am EST

Yup. Then comes Christmas and New Years and then Chinese New Year and then March Madness and pretty soon we are waiting for something interesting to happen in April.

Posted by Rockbeast on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:38 am EST

My birthday is in April...does that count? ;)

Posted by estockda on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:56 am EST

Christmas Budget: Get this app to throw off your budget by $2.99

Posted by janter on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:09 am EST

Does that mean you never bought a wallet because you would have X amount less to put in it?

Posted by blackmagic01 on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 3:51 pm EST

actually i've refrained from buying a new wallet for just that reason. i keep asking do i really need to spend the money. I got through yesterday with the wallet i have working ok. Why have less money?

Posted by UntidyGuy on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:14 am EST

LOL! "Thanks for buying the Christmas Budget App. You should now reduce your Christmas spending by $2.99"

"Please enter the amount of money you have to spend this Holiday season"

"Please enter the amount you spent today"

"This is how much you have left..."

"How many people do you want to buy gifts for?"

"This is how much you should spend on each person ..."

Posted by sweet greggo on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:35 am EST

I was actually interested in this before I saw the price. Not that I'm a tight ass or anything but everything has a perceived value. I perceive this app to have a value of $1, not $3.

Dev, lower the price and sell 5 times as many. Everybody wins.

Posted by j4ydubs on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 9:15 pm EST

"I was actually interested in this before I saw the price. Not that I'm a tight ass or anything but everything has a perceived value. I perceive this app to have a value of $1, not $3."

I was thinking the same thing. We just went through our lists of things and did it on a paper. I saw this app and said cool, now my wife can do it on her Pixi! Then saw $3 and said, umm no thanks. $1 and I'd buy it no question.

I then did a quick search on AppBrian (Android Market) and found a ton of simular apps. Some free, some $1, some more. I really don't want it on my Droid2 though, I want it for my wife's Pixi!

John

Posted by PrinceAlbert on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 2:01 pm EST

Wish this app would have come out last week. Not that it would have stopped me from blowing the Xmas budget this year...

Posted by Depadilla on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:37 am EST

YAWN..................

Posted by Rockbeast on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:52 am EST

regarding the emulator...and forgive me if I'm asking a forbidden question (I'm totally unaware on such things), but how does someone 'have the ROM' for apps/games to use with an emulator? Is there a place you can buy them legitimately? Do you have to own old game cartridges to have the authority to somehow capture the ROM and install it on your device?

Or, is this topic dangerous waters to avoid and we should start talking about how to make up that $2.99 I just used up from my Christmas budget?

Posted by Zhephree on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:24 pm EST

If you own the original, physical copies of the games and have the hardware and software means to copy those games to a ROM file, you have just sort of legitimately created ROMs that you can use in an emulator.

That's the only way you can even remotely get them legally, and even that method is a grey area.

Posted by Rockbeast on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:29 pm EST

Thanks...I think I'll just buy new games as they are developed by webOS developers including Homebrew. Safer that way!

Posted by noco37 on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 1:51 pm EST

Sorry, it is just a Wiki link, but time is short and this covers it pretty well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_image#Legal_status

Posted by rsanchez1 on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 3:38 pm EST

For anyone who tried the emulator, is it any good?