[Newbies] Re: Win98SE + Squeak?

John McKeon p3anoman at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 11:34:44 UTC 2009


Perhaps this might help
http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html
The notes say it adds unicode support

John

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Edgar J. De Cleene <
edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
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