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Games would quickly dominate the Symbian platform. It only made sense as the Nokia handhelds found their way into the hands on millions around the globe. Combined this with the universal nature of the J2ME runtime and the thousands upon thousands of developers who were already familiar with the Java programming language, it would only be a short time before games would dominate the platform. I was able to get a taste of these games as most of them have been archived on well...Archive.org. Most of these games were loaded onto the SDK which supported the J2ME environment. However, compatibility greatly differed as many of these games usually conformed to different screen sizes, depending on the phone. Not all Symbian phones were created equal.  Many of the games expected a very small screen size, and thus, didn't scale well to the screen resolution of the device that I was using (240 by 320 pixel resolution). Despite that though, they were many games that did scale to the correct res...

  The Apple II Redefines Micro-computing! Like many of the 8-bit micros, many IIe's found their way into the home setting. Granted in the home market, the IIe wasn't as prevalent as a Atari 800 or C64. However, the IIe had a healthy presence in that market regardless. One way to measure the popularity of a home computer is by its games library. In that regard, the IIe did not disappoint. On one hand, this computer was no C64. Graphically, the C64 could run circles around the IIe. On the other, there were still many great games, and for many users, their would be countless hours of joy to be had. The Apple IIe was released at the height of the arcade crazy. As such, the IIe got many arcade ports of several classics, along with various clones of those ports. Games like Montezuma's Revenge, Moon Patrol, Centipede, Defender, Pac-Man (just to name a few) would define the IIe. Broderbund started to make a name for themselves on the IIe. A game publisher, they started to publish m...

When one looks at the details, one realizes that the war has been mishandled since the beginning. While a powerful Afghan army was made, nothing was done to build the infrastructure to support it. According to many reports, several units haven't been paid in months, and were now being called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice for a horrifically incompetent and corrupt government. The corruption of the Afghan government knew no bounds. Things were never going to get better because our leaders didn't demand better from that government.  The Afghan war was horribly mishandled by both Democrats and Republicans alike over 20 years. I know that those who see their political preferences as unquestioned doctrine don't want to read that, but politicians on both sides failed because they didn't demand better from the Afghan government. Bush made serious blunders, along with Obama. As quick as I am to criticize Trump for anything, by the time he inherited the war, he was in a no-...

Their was no shortage of applications for the Symbian platform. The Symbian library became the largest of them all at a time when Palm was rapidly declining. Their were hundreds of programs available for such devices.  On one hand, one would be given a false impression as like in the case with WinCE, the vast majority of the software archive sites have shut down. However, many of these programs have been archived elsewhere, like Archive.org. Also, some of those mobile archive sites are still operating. This is where most of these programs came from.  Their were various programs that one could populate their Nokia device with. Their are various appointment keepers, calculators, media players, dictionaries. If one wanted to manage their finances and track their stock values, then there was an application for that. If one wanted to look up and element on the periodic table, then that could be done as well. Their was no shortage of web-browsers either.  If one needed directio...