Squeak on iPaq..success!

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Sun Dec 17 15:27:59 UTC 2000


Well after several re-flashings of the iPaq's flash with successively smaller
images, I've finally gotten Squeak 2.9a up and running on the iPaq.  

I used "Smalltalk majorShrink; abandonSources" and got the image down to 1.7
megs with a tiny changes file...more than enough!

So, as soon as I can break my ancient Xap Shot out of mothballs I'll try 
to snap a few pictures.  MVC looks really sharp on the iPaq LCD, I must say. :)
One nice thing about the Xserver on the iPaq is that it operates in both
portrait and landscape mode...the Browser is quite readable and usable
in landscape mode.

A couple notes:

The majorShrink seems to have had some unpleasant side-effects.  When I
save the shrunken image I get an error box complaining about a missing
seperator.  Still, it saves the image.

As I briefly mentioned, using "Smalltalk lastRemove" seems to hang the VM.
If you cmd-. you can break out of it..it seems to be hung in a Semaphore.

Ok...well, next step: Morphic!





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