[squeak-dev] Smalltalk-78 in a web browser....(on a JavaScript VM)

Bernhard Pieber bernhard at pieber.com
Tue Nov 14 16:46:22 UTC 2017


These demos are so cool! Thank you to everyone who helped resurrecting them.

Cheers,
Bernhard

> Am 14.11.2017 um 12:03 schrieb Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
> 
> The lively page should work ... which browser are you using? Any errors in the JS console? If all else fails, try Chrome.
> 
> There is a stand-alone version at http://www.cdglabs.org/thinglab/ which has ThingLab installed, but all the dev tools are still in there of course.
> 
> For a local setup I would clone https://github.com/cdglabs/thinglab and replace the image with https://lively-web.org/users/bert/St78/updates/updated.st78
> 
> The main git repo does not have html, because it would not work without an image anyways. And I didn’t want to check in the image, because git and binary data don’t mix that well. Then again, the image is < 1 MB, maybe I should add it. I guess it would look similar to the ThingLab page - what do you think?
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> On Tue 14. Nov 2017 at 11:39, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Smalltalk-78 (paper [1], video [4]) is available (repository [2])
> again as a browser app on a JavaScript VM [5].
> 
> My question is about the demo [3]. I tried several times to load it in
> a browsser but it took a long time and loading did not finish. Is it
> working for others?
> 
> And how can I set it up locally? I see no HTML file in the repo [2].
> 
> Regards
> 
> Hannes
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------
> 
> [1] Reviving Smalltalk-78
> Dan Ingalls, Bert Freudenberg, Ted Kaehler, Yoshiki Oshima, Alan Kay
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/882
> 
> [2] Repository https://github.com/bertfreudenberg/Smalltalk78
> 
> 
> [3] https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
> 
> [4] Smalltalk-78 demo video (screen shot and link)
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/880
> 
> [5] https://github.com/bertfreudenberg/Smalltalk78/blob/master/vm.js
> (4333 LOC)



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