dizzysoft software

Mileage2PC, which is described in some of the Mileage software documentation, has been replaced with GetMileage.

Mileage2PC was a conduit program- using the HotSync program it read the Mileage information from you handheld and wrote it on your computer in a readable format. There were some serious limitations with this. For one, it only ran on Windows systems. Two, because it was a Java conduit, it was very large (10 MB) for doing very little. Three, if you are using the conduit the PalmOS will not back-up your data (I guess they figure that you don’t need both). Four, because Microsoft changed its operating system to XP just after I released Mileage2PC, it didn’t work on any XP system. After repeated attempts to fix the problem I had to give up.

Years later, while laying in bed trying to go to sleep, it hit me. I could overcome the XP problem by moving to a purely Java implementation of the program. Not only would this work on XP, but since Java can run on almost any operating system, it would work for my Mac and Linux clients (and there was much rejoicing). Besides, years earlier I had written Mileage to automatically back up its data each time you HotSynced your handheld- so all I would need is a Java program that read this backup file.

Lo and behold, it worked. GetMileage was born and the Mileage users lived happily ever after.

The End.