Article:		The Sharp Zaurus -- A Lovely Little Computer
Subject:		About sharp zaurus SL-5500
Date:		2003-04-02 06:13:55
From:		anonymous2
We sell many GPS products in Sweden. We sell Holux Differents products . We needed a pocket PC with CF cards slot and when we read so many article about Sharp zaurus SL-5500 our head turned and we ordered one. read our problem below: Hello I just bought sharp zaurus sl-5500 because it has CF acrds slote and we sell GPS products in Sweden. We are selling Holux GM270 gps reciever with CF card for pocket PAD I tryed all I can but it seams that it is impossible to transfer GPS software and GPS map software to sharp zaurus SL-5500 The GPS software format is: .exe The GPS MAP format of : .fdp and compatible with windows CE 3.0 or later Can you advice me what to do. Your promt answer is very appreciated Guillaume e-mail: guillaume@natalie.se

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• About sharp zaurus SL-5500
  2004-01-17 11:34:25  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  hi i must be stupid because i cant download any apts [media player upgrades to my zaurus please help me with this ....thank you

• About sharp zaurus SL-5500
  2003-11-17 14:36:09  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  The main problem is that your software is for a Windows CE device and the Zaurus is a Linux device. The operating system is completely different...

• About sharp zaurus SL-5500
  2003-09-25 00:21:38  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Hi,
  
  I found some informations about your problem:
  
  1st
  You should run a SW which is working on your Zaurus i.e. qpeGPS [1]. This is freeware which is the whole idea behind Linux. I think you can only sell the card Holux GM270 but not the SW.
  
  2nd
  The SW can be downloded [2].
  
  3rd
  I found some further informations about your card (Holux GM270) [3]it seems that it is not running out of the box, but if you follow the link you find a nice howto.
  
  Just my 2 cents
  
  Regards
  
  Dave
  
  
  
  
  [1]
  http://qpegps.sourceforge.net/index.html
  
  [2]
  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55933&release_id=162987
  
  [3]
  http://qpegps.sourceforge.net/assets/gps_units/holux_gm_270.html
  
  

• About sharp zaurus SL-5500
  2003-06-13 09:14:01  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  ummm, I don't have one, but this thing runs Linux and you are trying to run Windows CE software on it. I think you are out of luck. That's like buying a Macintosh and trying to run Windows software.
• About sharp zaurus SL-5500
  2003-09-03 08:06:37  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  
  Can you run WINE on the Zaurus? With WINE I've run Windows software on Linux. (There's also an application for running Windows software on a Mac).
• About sharp zaurus SL-5500
  2003-10-06 09:30:57  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  If there is wine support on ARM processors..