{"id":22,"date":"2007-10-18T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:17:07","slug":"pocket-console-on-windows-mobile-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Pocket Console on Windows Mobile 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE – 4th February 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

This package gets downloaded from this website many times a month and I’m really pleased that it’s helping people out.\u00a0 If you try it on your device then please consider dropping me a comment saying which device you are using and if it worked or not – it might help other users out there.<\/p>\n

Thanks – Mike.<\/p>\n

UPDATE – 20 March 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems that pocket console website is with us no more and so it can be difficult to find both pocket console and pocket cmd on the web. In order to help people who are still looking for them I have uploaded both packages here in one zip file but first, a disclaimer:<\/p>\n

I didn’t write this software, I don’t support it and I won’t help you fix it if it goes wrong. If your PDA or phone gets bricked as a result of using it then its not my fault – all I am doing is making an old set of packages available for those who want them. They work fine for me – that’s all I know about them.<\/p>\n

So…with that said – here they are<\/a>. Comments (as always) are welcomed.<\/p>\n

Pocket Console<\/a> (link dead as of March 2008) is a very nice piece of software that provides a console device for windows mobile systems. Combine it with PocketCmd<\/a> (link dead as of March 2008) and you can control your windows mobile device from the command line – truly geek heaven!<\/p>\n

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Some of you may be wondering “why bother?” The correct geek response to this question is usually something along the lines of “because I can” but this particular pair of applications have a few other tricks up their sleeves.<\/p>\n

Once you have installed the base packages you can install some other, rather more interesting applications. For example – how about a pocket version of the computer algebra system PARI\/GP<\/a>? You can download the windows mobile version from the same site as pocket console – unfortunately it is not the latest version but it is still nice to play with.<\/p>\n

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If that is not enough for you then how about a pocket version of Yet Another Computer Algebra System<\/a> (YACAS). I’ll be honest and say that I am not sure if YACAS needs pocket console as all of the instructions are in german and I only attempted to install it after I installed pocket console. It works just fine but since all of the messages are in German it looks like I am going to have to brush up a little on my modern languages.<\/p>\n

There are also some non-maths applications on the pocket console website that make use of the application such as tetris, Star Trek and telnet but I have not tried any of them as they are not really my sort of thing.<\/p>\n

So is installation straightforward I hear you ask? Well…sort of. I installed pocket console on a windows mobile 6 platform (The HTC Tytn II<\/a>) and there are one or two issues you need to be aware of for this platform. The first is that you need to modify the following registry entry on your pocket pc<\/p>\n

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEDriversConsoleOutputTo<\/pre>\n
and change it’s value to 0 (This information came from here<\/a>). I use the excellent freeware package, PHM Regedit<\/a> to modify the registry on my device.  Please note that modifying the registry can mess up your device if you are not careful so tread with caution!<\/p>\n
On my machine I also had problems if I installed Pocket Console and Pocket CMD to a memory card.  I received the following error message<\/p>\n
“CMD Cannot start. There are too many console windows open.  Please close some console applications and try again.”<\/p>\n
I got around this by installing them to internal memory rather than a memory card – they are quite small so this is no big issue.  I could install Pari\/GP and Yacas to the memory card without any problems though. The only problem that remains is that now I get a couple of console messages pop up when I reset my device.  Once I have closed them they don’t pop up again until the next resest so its no big deal.<\/p>\n
If anyone out there knows of any other Windows Mobile applications that make use of Pocket Console then please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UPDATE – 4th February 2010 This package gets downloaded from this website many times a month and I’m really pleased that it’s helping people out.\u00a0 If you try it on your device then please consider dropping me a comment saying which device you are using and if it worked or not – it might help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-pocket-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}