[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Sogarth:
Woo... finally finished my own personal ROM! Well, barring any bugs I might end up finding. :p

To give people an idea of what you can do with a SPL 3.5 ROM, here's the list of what I have in mine:

Windows Mobile 6.1: All except for:

Games

Sample music

Transcriber

Welcome Center

Windows Live

Windows Update (Autoupdate)

Miscellaneous other files (images, sounds)

Language modifications:

NLS: 411 (Japanese)

SIP: 411 (Japanese)

Custom OEM folders (the interesting ones, at least):

Aspecto Software WiFiFoFum 2.2.12

Calc98 5.30

Cambridge vxUtil

Chartcross GPS Test 1.02

Dotfred TaskManager 3.1

FileDialogChanger 1.66

FTouchSL 2.7 (set only to finger-scrolling as a baseline)

JETware 1.31

Macromedia Flash Player 7.0.70.0

Microsoft Voice Command (UK) 1.60.4622.0

Mobipocket Reader 5.2.549

monocube SafeMode 2.1 (pre-registered)

NIQUE PQzII 0.0.8c

PhatWare CalliGrapher 8.6/8.369.0122 (pre-registered)

PhatWare PhatNotes 5.1/5.568.1203 (pre-registered)

PhatWare PhatPad 4.4/4.357.0114 (pre-registered)

PhatWare PhatSpell 1.4/1.101.0715 (pre-registered)

PHM Notepad 0.1

Pmmax CryptoCard 2.4.0.0

PocketPicture 2.2.0.0

RAMDisk (set to 4 MB)

RealVGA 1.1 (+ 96 DPI Windows 6.1 resources)

Reensoft PIEPlus 2.2 (pre-registered)

Resco Explorer 2007 6.17 (yes, it's old, but I haven't seen a reason to pay for the upgrade to 2008)

SKKV GSen 1.5

Spb Diary 2.5.8.3707 (pre-registered)

Spb Finance 2.8.0.2450 (pre-registered)

Sprite Backup 6.0.0.2062 (pre-registered)

TCPMP 0.72 RC1 (subtitle version + YouTube support)

TekSoft FingerTouch 1.0 RC-5 Free (yes, the AP team's vaunted FingerTouch is now free, since there's now FingerTouch PRO)

VCommManager 0.4

VJCandela 0.3

Water Level 0.2

WkTask 1.1.7.3c

WM5torage 1.8

WMWifiRouter 0.91

zaTelnet 0.5.1.28662

HTC OEM folders (the semi-interesting ones, at least):

PACKAGE_Diamond_AdobePDF

PACKAGE_Diamond_Album_HTC_ALL

PACKAGE_Diamond_ConcurrenceMgr

PACKAGE_Diamond_ConnectionSetup

PACKAGE_Diamond_DShow

PACKAGE_Diamond_EnlargeStartMenu

PACKAGE_Diamond_HTCGesture

PACKAGE_Diamond_JBlendJava_CSL

PACKAGE_Diamond_mHub

PACKAGE_Diamond_OutlookEnhancement

PACKAGE_Diamond_PictureEnhancement

PACKAGE_Diamond_RingtonePlugin

PACKAGE_Diamond_SensorSDK

PACKAGE_Diamond_ShareDLL

PACKAGE_Diamond_VoiceRecorder

PACKAGE_Diamond_VolumeControl

X7510_AudioBooster

X7510_AudioManager

X7510_BTFtp

X7510_Camera

X7510_GSensor

X7510_HTCHome

X7510_PhoneCanvas

X7510_QuickGPS

X7510_SmartDialing

X7510_SymbolPad

X7510_USBtoPC

X7510_VideoTelephony

I should be able to upload some of these packages over the next couple of days for anybody who's interested. Let me know which ones you'd like to see first! I will not be providing the following due to their being commercial (i.e. non-shareware) software:

Microsoft Voice Command

Sprite Backup

I may, however, be willing to provide instructions and frameworks on how to build your own (if you ask nicely). And, naturally, all of the software I have labelled "pre-registered" is done in a separate OEM folder, so no, you can't get my registration keys. ;)

So... yeah. You can fit a little bit of stuff inside a SPL 3.5 ROM, which is the nice thing about it. This all runs at a fairly reasonable speed. If anything, the reason it doesn't run all that fast is because HTC Home, Spb Diary, and PQzII manage to slow rotation down, and Spb Diary loads up slowly... :p

btw, what's the xda-dev stance on "last freeware release" software? This would apply to WMWifiRouter and zaTelnet.