I recreated the classic Palm NetWalk experience for iOS
I recently came across NetWalk again while playing around with a Palm emulator, and it brought back that wonderfully simple early-2000s PDA game feeling.
So I decided to recreate the experience for modern iPhones and iPads.
I tried to keep the visual style and gameplay as close to that era as possible — monochrome display, pixel graphics, simple UI, and no unnecessary modern game elements.
The screenshot shows my iOS version on the left and the Palm version on the right.
It was also a little experiment for me: I built the entire project with AI-generated code, without manually writing the game code myself. From the initial idea to a build ready for App Store review took about 24 hours.
It’s now actually live on the App Store, which still feels a little surreal.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/netwalk-classic/id6795286477
Mostly just wanted to share this with people who might actually remember NetWalk and the Palm era. :)
Does anyone here remember playing it on an actual Palm?