LPR Driver
Driver for LPR printers, consisting of two packages (LPR Setup.pkg and LPRDriver.pkg). Use the LPR Setup application to add a printer. The address field contains the host name of the printer or printer server, the queue field contains the queue name on the server or “lp” for the default queue. Printers added via LPR Setup are added to the list of printers available in the print slip.
Serial Test
Serial Endpoint
Patched Endpoint with a partly IrCOMM implementation
TRex
Foundation for a speaker-dependent speech recognition codec. Does silence detection and filtering into frequency bands.
Newton GCC Tools
Tool chain for compiling C programs using GCC instead of the Newton C++ Tools.
Download and Installation
The Newton tools can be downloaded from here. The contents of the ZIP file can be extracted anywhere, and an environment variable NT_ROOT has to point to the location where the contents have been extracted to.
The Newton tools also require the Lua scripting language.
Usage
To use the tools, a GCC cross compiler for the ARM target is required. The $(NT_ROOT)/lib folder contains a NewtonTools.mak file which can be included from other makefiles, it sets the necessary compiler and linker flags. The NewtonTools.mak file assumes that the GCC cross compiler is installed under /usr/local/, but that can be changed easily.
Newton Connection Protocols
- Newton Docking Protocol, also known as the Dante protocol
- Hammer Protocol for the low level debugger
Newton Patches
The NewtonOS is patchable, and Apple has released a number of patches for various models and purposes. The Newton Patches page contains more information how patches are structured, and example and test patches.
NewtonOS internals
Some information about the lower level NewtonOS parts (kernel a.k.a OS600 and user space libraries) can be found on the NewtonOS Internals page.