[squeak-dev] running old images

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Thu Oct 3 17:41:03 UTC 2013


On 02-10-2013, at 4:15 PM, "J. Vuletich (mail lists)" <juanlists at jvuletich.org> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 
> I just tried Squeak 1.1, 1.31, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.5 in my Windows 7 32 bit machine. All of them run perfectly fine with an appropriate VM (from about the time the image was released). I think any Squeak ever released should run in Windows.
> I usually don't advocate any platform, and for everyday I prefer my Mac, but WRT compatibility with old stuff, Windows really rocks. You can install VirtualBox and Windows XP or 7 in your Mac. It should run all the old images without problems.

Or you could get a Raspberry Pi, load up RISC OS and run pretty much any VM/image era pairing. And without having to suffer Windows! How can that not be worth ~$40 ?

tim
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