[Newbies] Squeak by example image

[Robert Kuropkat]

David,

Thank-you for the remind.  I think you mentioned this to me once before
and I had not yet followed up on it.  I'll need to give it a try soon.

Robert Kuropkat

P.S.  Just for giggles I found a 3.x port of Squeak for OS/2 and was
able to get both images to start up in it also :-)


On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 20:54 -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> Hi Steve (and Robert),
> 
> If the suggestion of using Squeak 3.9 or 3.10 does not work, then
> I will mention also that if you are using Linux, then you can
> build a new Squeak virtual machine (VM) that will run the old
> SqueakByExample-1.3.image on any modern Linux machine.
> 
> There is no longer any official support for this, but it is
> maintained
> informally for Linux, and an interested Linux user can build the
> VM by following the instructions at 
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6354.
> 
> I checked by running the image in SqueakByExample-1.3.zip on my
> 64-bit Ubuntu Linux laptop, and it works fine for me.
> 
> I do not know if this will work on Windows or OS X. Probably not,
> but I do not know for sure.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 07:51:26PM -0400, Robert Kuropkat wrote:
> > 
> > You need to use Squeak 3.9 or 3.10.  If you are using Linux you
> > will
> > need to install some 32-bit Libraries.  If you have trouble with
> > that I
> > think I have some notes on what is needed.  You can also run the
> > ReadyPC image which is the one for "Squeak: Learn Programming With
> > Robots" with Squeak 3.8-3.10 but will need the V3Sources file as
> > well.
> > Robert Kuropkat
> > 
> > On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 16:21 -0700, Steve Quezadas wrote:
> > > Has anyone played around with Squeak by Example? The only place I
> > > can
> > > find the image is here:
> > > 
http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/4624/SqueakByExample-1.3.zip
> > > md5sum is here: 79b5df8ba51ae1fa3a852048ba8d27d0
> > > 
> > > I tried to run it in my Squeak instance. I am running 5.2, but
> > > it's
> > > not loading. Do I need to load a previous version of squeak?
> > > There is
> > > no readme file.
> > > 
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