is *.im a st80 image file?
Douglas E. Hammond
deh at mercury.interpath.com
Fri Jun 12 00:25:53 UTC 1998
Geox wrote:
> I got a program to modify an "ancient" Smalltalk (st80) base software,
> it runs under Windows3.1 with a command line "st80.exe xxxx.im".
> I think that *.im is the image file(?), now I want to transfer it to
> a newer Win95 base platform . How can I do this? help me please
Hans-Martin replied:
> It's probably an old ParcPlace Systems (now ObjectShare) Smalltalk-80.
> [...]
[Sorry. I can't lay hands on my old DOS directory listings just now.]
If these look familiar:
s8b:
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 3 deh other 2048 Nov 24 1960 .
drwxr-xr-x 28 deh other 16384 Jan 1 1970 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 428 Feb 3 1986 install.bat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 955 Jul 13 1987 install2.bat
drwxr-xr-x 2 deh other 2048 Mar 8 1995 release
s8b/release:
total 2068
drwxr-xr-x 2 deh other 2048 Mar 8 1995 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 deh other 2048 Nov 24 1960 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 7682 Feb 4 1986 animatin.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 1027 Oct 16 1985 blueinsp.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 392 Feb 17 1987 char.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 4960 Oct 14 1985 clock.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 1298 Oct 30 1985 comander.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 2798 Jul 13 1987 dosfiles.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 1254 Sep 16 1986 dynmscrl.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 7301 Feb 4 1986 financia.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 2807 Oct 16 1985 findclas.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 5880 Feb 4 1986 hand.st
-r-xr-xr-x 1 deh other 740 Jan 28 1987 msm.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 1741 Feb 4 1987 printout.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 3547 Oct 17 1985 project.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 4069 Oct 31 1985 protocol.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 1672 Jul 13 1987 readme
-r-xr-xr-x 1 deh other 60006 Jul 13 1987 st80.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 deh other 594944 Jul 13 1987 st80v2.im
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 1393824 Mar 8 1995 st80v2.st
-rwxr-xr-x 1 deh other 1372 Feb 4 1986 toothpa.st
then we're looking at a system only marginally different from "vanilla"
Smalltalk-80 Version 2:
'From Smalltalk-80, version 2, of April 1, 1983
on 11 March 1986 at 10:28:33 pm'!
This system was marketed by SoftSmarts, Inc. (now long defunct). It
featured a 286 protected-mode interpreter and a hardware protection
device (a.k.a. a "dongle").
I'm a bit surprised to learn that the interpreter ran on top of Win 3.1.
I'd be very surprised if it ran on top of Win 95.
Though it's possible to write an interpreter for an image of this
vintage, or to simply hack on the Smalltalk sources file (st80v2.st),
Geox might be better advised to consider a more actively supported
system such as Squeak.
- Doug
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