Agenda VR3 bookmarks...

Jay's Agenda pages

• I've got some Agenda information, including reviews of the included PIM applications (with screenshots) and handwriting recognition, and software that I've ported to the Agenda, at http://www.aq.org/~js/agenda/. (new)

General information

• One of the most helpful sites, particularly if you're interested in doing any development or porting, is Andrej Cedilnik's Agenda Help Page at http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~acedil1/agenda/. Even if you're not a developer, the hints about getting PPP working and configuring the Terminal (rxvt, actually) and the shell are useful.
• The Agenda Community Portal at http://www2.math.uni-potsdam.de/agenda/ is a vaguely Slashdottish site with Agenda news.
• DJ Delorie has a handy table of PMON, kernel, and root disk images at http://www.delorie.com/agenda/images.html.
• An alternative handwriting-recognition (HWR) project at http://agendawiki.com/.
• The list of Most Wanted Ports to the Agenda (both ones that actually exist already and ones that people only wished existed) at http://agendawiki.com/.
• There's some stuff up at http://agendawiki.com/cgi-bin/aw.pl?RecdInvestigation about tweaking handwriting recognition, as well as an image showing the HWR strokes the Agenda understands.

General software sites

• The Agenda Software Repository (ASR) at http://agendawiki.com/cgi-bin/asr.pl (new URL) is the largest listing of Agenda apps out there.
• Enzo Darie's ported applications page is at http://cabmec1.cnea.gov.ar/~darie/agenda/. It includes a port of xmerlin, an alternate handwriting recognition program.
• ASCAR, or the Agenda Snow Compiled Apps Repository (at http://www.daimi.au.dk/~maxx/ascar.html), is a source for precompiled Agenda software built to run on the recent SNOW-based romdisks from Agenda Computing. (The SNOW-based romdisks use a non-relocatable format for shared libraries that ends up being a lot faster and somewhat easier on memory on the Agenda's MIPS processor than traditional Linux SysVr4 shared libraries. But you need to recompile an app every time a library it uses changes on the romdisk - hence the need for an archive of software builds corresponding to particular romdisk versions.)

Reviews

• Rich Deyoun has a `Semi-Complete VR3 Review' up at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rdeyoun/vr3_review.html.
• Avatar has an Agenda review (with a lot of useful links in it) at http://www.evil3d.net/reviews/misc/vr3/.
• Bill Kendrick (who's written a bunch of neat games for the Agenda) has a review on bargainpda.com at http://www.bargainPDA.com/reviews/default.asp?reviewID=36.
• See also `Jay's Agenda pages' at the top of this page.

Games and toys

• Bill Kendrick, a/k/a New Breed Software, has written a bunch of games for the Agenda. In fact, Agenda Computing includes one of them, Aliens, out of the box on shipping units. He's a helpful presence on the agenda-users list, too.
• nick_tg on Geocities has a port of XBoard, including a small chess engine for it, at http://www.geocities.com/nick_tg/agenda/xboard.html.
• Some alternate background images are available at http://agendawiki.com/wiki.pl?BackgroundImages.

Tools and utilities (Agenda-side)

• The big complaint about the Agenda is that it's really slow, especially for task-switching. This is substantially improved by the SNOW-based romdisks at http://www.desertscenes.net/agenda/snow/, and now also available from Agenda Computing. (Basically, this involves generating shared libraries that aren't position-independent; they live at a fixed place in the machine's address space. The MIPS version of GCC generates much better code that way.) This version of the Agenda OS should operate identically to what Agenda Computing ships, but you'll need to recompile any third-party apps to link with the fixed-position libraries.
• Tim Wentford has an ebook reader for the Agenda at http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/. Called TWReader, it supports plain text, PalmOS' DOC format (in .pdb or .prc files), and a custom compression format called PPM.
• There are some useful tools at http://seldon.terminus.sk/~www/agenda/, both for general use and for development. Notable are a port of vim (not as important now that recent romdisks include a vi emulation in BusyBox) and a tiny terminal program called microcom.
• Mike Hall has some useful Agenda tools and ports at http://www.enteract.com/~mghall/vr3/vr3.html, including xwd and a handy directory browser. (He's got a bunch of useful Tcl/Tk stuff as well.)
• Mike Pruett wrote Rdbed, a database editor for the Agenda. You can find it at http://rdbed.sourceforge.net/.
• Sean Barnes has a couple of apps (with source) on his site at http://sean.a.barnes.home.att.net/agenda/, a scientific calculator and a searchable periodic table of the elements.

Non-ASCII font and input support

• Enzo Dari has an improved HWR layout, which lets you get at some characters that can't be stroked via HWR, at http://cabmec1.cnea.gov.ar/~darie/agenda/. It works with a few minor problems with the /usr/bin/keyboard app included on the Agenda Computing romdisks, but he provides patches to the keyboard source code and a non-SNOWed keyboard binary that fix those problems. It provides a Compose key for accented (ISO 8859-1) characters.
• FatCat's Agenda Chinese Hacking (at http://www.linux.org.hk/~fatcat/agenda/) has Chinese fonts and Chinese-capable terminal programs for the Agenda (built only to support Big5, but probably easy to recompile for GuoBiao or other encodings).
• There's another page focussing on Japanese support at http://is.os-omicron.org/tiki/en/tiki.cgi?c=v&p=AgendaVR3andCJK. It includes a link to information in Japanese about a UTF8 (Unicode) patch for FLTK.