Looking for old Smalltalks for DOS

David Mitchell david.mitchell at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 22:25:00 UTC 2007


Chris Grindstaff did a port of Squeak to DOS back around 1.18. (I ran it
a few times back then on my 486.) Probably still on a server somewhere.

Aaron Reichow wrote:

> Hi!
>
> This a call for old versions of Smalltalk.  I used to have a couple  
> of them, and feeling the urge to see if they work in DOSbox on OS X,  
> I having tried in vain to find them. I did find my copy of Smalltalk/ 
> V 3.0 for DOS and use a computer at my wife's work for this purpose  
> to copy files off the 5.25" disks, and it works! This is a graphical  
> version of Smalltalk for DOS that doesn't work well in DOSbox,  
> perhaps problems with EGA drivers or something.  But I did have  
> another version of Smalltalk for DOS that worked entirely with text  
> windows, though I can't remember the precise name/version of the  
> software- Smalltalk/V 286 perhaps?
>
> Anyway, if you have a copy of this, could you please send it my way?
>
> In addition, I am very interested in any old version of Smalltalk for  
> various OSes, though only for Mac and PC hardware. I'd love to see a  
> real version of Smalltalk-80 running on an old Mac, for instance.   
> Please email me if you can help me out with this!
>
> Regards,
> Aaron
>
>





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