The Squeak Oversight Board was discussing how to explain to "outside" people what is so cool about Squeak, so naturally the topic of FunSqueak was raised in the discussion.
For those who may not know, Edgar De Cleene prepares the FunSqueak image, which contains a wonderful collection of Squeak applications past and present.
A fairly recent FunSqueak is on our ftp server:
ftp://ftp.squeak.org/various_images/FunSqueak/FunSqueakCog4.3-11720-alpha.zip
I think that Edgar plans to prepare an update for Squeak 4.6 also.
For anyone on the list who may not have been involved in Squeak during its earlier years, you definitely should take a look at FunSqueak. You may be surprised at some of the things that can be done in Squeak.
Tim Rowledge - don't forget to look at this image for your Raspberry Pi presentations!
Dave
For this link:
On May 31, 2014, at 3:27 PM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
ftp://ftp.squeak.org/various_images/FunSqueak/FunSqueakCog4.3-11720-alpha.zip
perhaps try this one:
http://ftp.squeak.org/various_images/FunSqueak/FunSqueakCog4.3-11720-alpha.z...
Chris
On 31-05-2014, at 12:27 PM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
Tim Rowledge - don't forget to look at this image for your Raspberry Pi presentations!
I’m ahead of you; I used this image for a demo at a meeting I presented in London a few weeks ago - not that I actually went to London, we did the whole thing via Skype. Which, to my total amazement actually worked perfectly for the entire meeting.
Since I know everybody will be utterly *fascinated*, here’s the story. I was contacted by the the ROUGOL folk (that RISC OS User Group Of London) and asked to talk to them about Squeak & Scratch on RISC OS on the Pi. So I arranged to send a set of images across to run locally (in the fairly nice looking pub they use for meetings) so that I could talk and direct a carefully trained demonstrator on the spot.
I knocked up a very simple “this is what Smalltalk looks like” image from a 4.5 image just as an introduction. In fact it’s currently at https://copy.com/9xGpGdHRoaKiMl2W for the terminally bored. It might be nice to build a lot more demoey stuff into it. I sent them Edgar’s funsqueak image too but there are quite a few problems with running it in a RISC OS Pi, sadly. The 3D stuff simply fails, copy and paste breaks horribly, other problems that I imagine are partly due to cramming so many projects into one image and the potential clashes that causes. I also sent them a RISC OS ready Scratch,
All in all it was great fun and everybody hung around for just under two hours! As a way to demo the joys of Squeak to people you can’t actually get to physically meet it was very successful.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful Latin Phrases:- Re vera, potas bene = Say, you sure are drinking a lot.
On 5/31/14, 6:53 PM, "tim Rowledge" tim@rowledge.org wrote:
On 31-05-2014, at 12:27 PM, David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com wrote:
Tim Rowledge - don't forget to look at this image for your Raspberry Pi presentations!
I¹m ahead of you; I used this image for a demo at a meeting I presented in London a few weeks ago - not that I actually went to London, we did the whole thing via Skype. Which, to my total amazement actually worked perfectly for the entire meeting.
Since I know everybody will be utterly *fascinated*, here¹s the story. I was contacted by the the ROUGOL folk (that RISC OS User Group Of London) and asked to talk to them about Squeak & Scratch on RISC OS on the Pi. So I arranged to send a set of images across to run locally (in the fairly nice looking pub they use for meetings) so that I could talk and direct a carefully trained demonstrator on the spot.
I knocked up a very simple ³this is what Smalltalk looks like² image from a 4.5 image just as an introduction. In fact it¹s currently at https://copy.com/9xGpGdHRoaKiMl2W for the terminally bored. It might be nice to build a lot more demoey stuff into it. I sent them Edgar¹s funsqueak image too but there are quite a few problems with running it in a RISC OS Pi, sadly. The 3D stuff simply fails, copy and paste breaks horribly, other problems that I imagine are partly due to cramming so many projects into one image and the potential clashes that causes. I also sent them a RISC OS ready Scratch,
All in all it was great fun and everybody hung around for just under two hours! As a way to demo the joys of Squeak to people you can¹t actually get to physically meet it was very successful.
tim
tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Useful Latin Phrases:- Re vera, potas bene = Say, you sure are drinking a lot.
Thanks Dave for kind words, thanks Tim for using my previous work. I afraid being sick and with work overload. But I re take work , so being tuned.
Problem I found trying to update. See log Complaints about MCReorganizationPreloader undef, but it's in 4.6 sources and I verify .image is using. Solved by hand, wish know if any have similar trouble.
Edgar
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