I'm pretty sure if you find a 2.8 VM the basic stuff would pretty  
much work. I just tested with a recent VM and get walkbacks because  
we switched to named primitives a long while ago. Commenting out the  
primitive failures worked fine (it was just trying to stop sound  
which was not playing anyway). After this, I could work with it just  
fine.

Regarding "Smalltalk and portability" ... It takes a *lot* of low  
level effort to provide the illusion of a perfect world so that on a  
high level you can ignore platform issues. This has not been done on  
Linux yet as it seems, so that's why they estimate it might take a  
while to get done. All of this convenience does not come for free.  
Actually, if it *was* Smalltalk rather than C and OS-dependent  
libraries down there, we would be in even better shape.

- Bert -

On Jan 16, 2007, at 17:53 , Philippe Marschall wrote:

> Yeah, that's what stopped me from downloading it. So much for
> Smalltalk and portability. Way better than say Java.
>
> Philippe
>
> 2007/1/16, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>:
>> And they say: "Note: We are working on a Linux version, and hope  
>> to have
>> it ready by the end of 2007." :)
>>
>> /Klaus
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:36:42 +0100, Jerome Peace wrote:
>>
>> > Mit's scratch has a final version available for
>> > download.
>> >
>> > http://scratch.mit.edu/
>> >
>> > It seems to have come out January 8th.
>> >
>> > I know there are a few here who have been interested
>> > in what they have done.
>> >
>> > Scratch was inspired by squeaks etoys.
>> >
>> > Now that it is final and not beta the registration
>> > page is optional.
>> >
>> > They also seem to be planing a sharing website to be
>> > up in February.
>> >
>> > Yours in service, --Jerome Peace
>>
>>
>>
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