I'll leave this open for a while for people to check out.

Karl

Karl Ramberg wrote:

> I feel like a kid on christmas... I don't know which toy to play with.
> For people who like to play with Nebraska :
>
>  NetworkTerminalMorph openAndConnectTo: '213.200.160.14'
>
> to see what happens...
>
> Karl
>
> this is on a cable modem. no guarantees. by the way does it work with more than
> one server and
>
> Jerry Bell wrote:
>
> > I ran a Nebraska session between two NT 4.0 workstations (over a LAN - it
> > was quick and very impressive!  In fact, the performance looked much better
> > than a VNC session over the same network (although the VNC session was to a
> > Win98 laptop).
> >
> > Anyway, these were just basic virgin 2.8 images which I updated all the way,
> > then bumped versions to 2.9. and caught the new updates there. I don't know
> > of any special plug-ins.  I ran the session the evening the changes were
> > released, but I haven't had a chance to play with it any more since.
> >
> > I do know that I'm very impressed- I've been waiting for this aspect for a
> > long time...
> >
> > Also, I played around with the paint app within Nebraska.  The paintbrush
> > seemed confused by the presence of two hands, and tended to draw between
> > them.  I haven't had a chance to look at the code yet though.
> >
> > Regardless, this along with the new communication stuff simply rocks!
> >
> > BTW, I've got several Win2k machines here.  Perhaps this evening I'll have
> > enough time to copy Squeak over to a couple and see if Nebraska will work.
> > I'll report the results.
> >
> > Jerry Bell
> > jdbell at fareselaw.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Arning [mailto:arning at charm.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:39 AM
> > To: spair at advantive.com; squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> > Subject: Re: Nebraska
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:13:57 -0400 spair at advantive.com (Stephen Pair) wrote:
> > >I just got caught up with the latest changes and noticed that Nebraska is
> > >now in the update stream (cool!).  I tried starting a Nebraska server and
> > >Squeak crashes (just after the network gets initialized).  I remember from
> > a
> > >while back that you needed a plugin or two...is that still the case?  Is
> > >there a special VM needed?
> > >
> > >I'm running on a Windows 2000 machine.
> >
> > Stephen,
> >
> > There is a small plugin that is optional (I don't have it). If you know how
> > to build plugins, you might try translating IntegerPokerPlugin and building
> > that. The VM I'm using is the Mac 2.8beta5 from mid-June and I don't know if
> > there is anything special about it. Maybe the new socket stuff has something
> > to do with it.
> >
> > Most of our testing recently has been on the Mac with maybe a bit of *nix. I
> > don't know if it has run on Windows in its current incarnation. Maybe when
> > Lex gets in he will have an idea.
> >
> > If you want to try debugging it, let me know - I'll be happy to help.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bob