I've now been able to build a release of NuScratch for Squeak5.3 - many thanks for the help in working out the keyboard tracking and other issues - that will soon appear in the official Raspberry Pi OS release stream. RPF's main interest was in making sure it could work as they move to having pulse audio as the default sound system, but it was a chance to fix a couple of other things too.

Not least is a version for the still-beta Pi 64 bit OS release; the final obstacle to that was surmounted this week with the successful build of a 64 bit version of the pigpio library that worked to waggle the i2c & SPI pins correctly. Obviously, this is going to be the first fairly widespread use of the AArch64 Cog VM, which I find quite exciting. Probably not as exciting as Eliot does though :-)

I haven't yet updated SqueakMap but the SqueakSource packages are up to date.

Caveats - You do need the UnicodePlugin available for things to run cleanly. This isn't routinely built, I think. You also need the Verdana font files and the Scratch resources directory in order to do a build from sources.

You can download a somewhat Pi-specific temporary package from

(32 bit) https://mega.nz/file/eElm2SAQ#2Vk5_Z5oUf8G6kidi87Cv6d7HyG7QNXniWE60l2iSFU
or
(64 bit) https://mega.nz/file/mR0SGSwQ#gIX31V9YSCD9tcrgAGaVVaz5GyH2nU2_ixbW_9Ileb0

Have fun - and if you find any bugs keep them to yourself, dammit, I need to spend some time on other things...

tim
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