[Newbies] Re: Win98SE + Squeak?

[Edgar J. De Cleene]

On 8/6/09 3:42 AM, "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:

> Leandro -
> 
> The Win95 family of products (Win95, Win98, WinME) are no longer
> supported by the latest Win32 Squeak VMs. This became necessary when we
> switched to full Unicode compatibility in the VM (support for Unicode is
> sparse to non-existent on these Windows variants). If you absolutely
> must use Win98, try the 3.7.x family of VMs - they were an
> extraordinarily stable branch that did support Win98 and friends.
> 
> However, unless you also use 3.7/3.8 based images there will be some
> compatibility issues (the precise extent of which I am not certain about
> since I've never tried it). Good luck.
> 
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
> 
> Leandro Juarez wrote:
>> When i try to run Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.image with the lastest squeak
>> available to download from squeak.org <http://squeak.org> I get a Squeak
>> Warning window claiming: Image File Read problem (0 out of 4 bytes read)
>> with three buttons:
>>  
>> Abort
>> Retry
>> Omitir (sorry don't remember the English translation  for that word)
>>  
>> Many thanks.
>>  
>> Leandro
>> 
>>  
>> On 8/3/09, *Benjamin L. Russell* <DekuDekuplex at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:DekuDekuplex at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>     On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 01:25:50 -0300, Leandro Juarez
>>     <leandroo at gmail.com <mailto:leandroo at gmail.com>>
>>     wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi there. I'm Leandro from Rosario, ARG, and I'm trying to run the
>>     latest
>>> version of Squeak from a machine that is running on WIN98SE. But
>>     it doesn't
>>> work at all. Any idea why? It's a celeron 900mhz with 284 Mb RAM.
>>> 
>>> I tried to run on an IBM Thinkpad 600E, and it doesn't work also.
>>> 
>>> I would appreciate if anyone tells me which version of squeak
>>     should I try
>>> with.
>> 
>>     What are the exact symptoms that you are experiencing?
>> 
>>     -- Benjamin L. Russell
>>     --
>>     Benjamin L. Russell  /   DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com
>>     http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/
>>     Translator/Interpreter / Mobile:  +011 81 80-3603-6725
>>     "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto."
>>     -- Matsuo Basho^
>> 


Very happy Andreas care about beginners with very old hardware, they are
millions in all world.

I have a question for he.

That means Cuis , Old SqueakLight and Pavel kernel for 3.7 could run with
3.7.x family of VMs on Windows 98?

Please a link for try it ....


Edgar


Edgar