Richard,

> *sigh* I don't seem to be very lucky with Squeak 1.3, on both Windows 95 
> (several ones) and Linux. When I try to play one of the sound examples in 
> the welcome screen, I get: "a primitive has failed" 

I'm not sure about Linux but the Windows VM _requires_ a sound card
capable of 16bit playing. Also you may check that no other application
occupies sound output (although that's not very likely).

Andreas
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