[squeak-dev] Squeak Win95/Win98 support

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Fri Feb 29 02:25:42 UTC 2008


What about Windows CE support?
I see more crude workarounds to support WCE than win95/98 :)

2008/2/29 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Hi -
>
>  I'm not sure this matters for anyone but just so you know some recent
>  changes to the Win32 Squeak VM for making it fully Unicode aware have
>  broken the support for Win95 and Win98. Since I am not planning to spend
>  any time whatsoever on supporting these versions any longer[*1], you
>  will have to use older (pre-3.10.x) VMs in order to run on these Windows
>  versions. I recommend the 3.7.x series which was a particularly stable
>  vintage ;-)
>
>  If anyone is interested in supporting Win95/Win98 specifically, drop me
>  a note and we can work something out (maybe a branch on SqueakVM.org).
>
>  Cheers,
>    - Andreas
>
>  [*1] Actually I may spend some time getting rid of all the crude
>  workarounds that were necessary to support Win95 in the first place.
>
>
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.



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