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pBill: the xBill port for Palm OS

I found pBill, along with it's source code in a lost corner of the internet. It's a straight port of xBill, but unfortunately it does not run on any color devices which excludes most Palm devices released after the turn of the century.

I spent a few evenings getting it up to date and working on most devices. If you would like to know more about this process, I recommend you have a look at my post about it:

xBill for PalmOS receives an update after 25 years

Video

Gameplay

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pBill v1.1

Minimum Requirements

Any Palm OS device running OS 3.5 or higher is supported in both color and grayscale modes

Hi-res support is available for Palm OS 5.

The Game

Ever get the feeling that nothing is going right? You're a sysadmin, and someone's trying to destroy your computers. The little people running around the screen are trying to infect your computers with Wingdows [TM], a virus cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system. Additionally, some computers are connected with network cables. When one computer on a network becomes infected, a spark will be sent down the cable, and will infect the computer on the other end when it reaches there.

The status bar at the bottom tells the following:

How to play

If you change to another application while you are playing, when you return to the game, it will start paused at the start of the level you were on with the score you had at the start of the level.

Pressing the pause icon in the top right corner will pause the game.

Pressing the Menu key during a game will end the game and drop you back into the start screen.

Source code

Full source code is available on GitHub:

pBill source code on GitHub



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