<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m happy to see that people are still watching that video of mine. <div class="">I made it work, sort of, by using very old images. I think it’s 2.2 or something. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To my knowledge the simulator is broken and unusable. Like Alien FFI, it’s something you hear about, assume is a real thing, and then eventually find out it is not. In the hands of experts? Yes. But neither the simulator nor Alien is a mass market product. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The simulator does not work with the Interpreter vm with any image. The simulator works for Cog if you are an expert. </div><div class="">I’d be utterly fascinate if somebody could prove me wrong on this. I’d probably make a new video. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let me put it this way: </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-gJMs6DwuE" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-gJMs6DwuE</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 7, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Ben Coman <<a href="mailto:btc@openinworld.com" class="">btc@openinworld.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">One of the advertised niceties is running the VM in a simulator. I've<br class="">been wondering for a while how to try it. I found this ancient<br class="">tutorial...<br class=""> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J1yjWtuwJU" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J1yjWtuwJU</a><br class="">which saves current image as 'source.image'<br class="">then in original image does...<br class=""> (InterpreterSimulatorLSB new openOn: 'source.image') test<br class="">as advised at 2:15, but I get "Error: basicNew: failed"<br class="">at the line methodCache := Array new: MethodCacheSize.<br class="">where MethodCacheSize is nil.<br class=""><br class="">Is this still the correct way to invoke the simulator?<br class=""><br class="">I tried also "(StackInterpreterSimulatorLSB new openOn: 'source.image') test"<br class="">with same result.<br class=""><br class="">If I use the example at the bottom of StackInterpreterSimulator class comment<br class="">I get "Error: incomaptible image format"<br class=""><br class="">Also btw, the class comment of SimulatorMorph references<br class="">Simulator>>openAsMorph which doesn't exist. Should this be<br class="">StackInterpreterSimulator?<br class=""><br class="">I'm running on Linux-x86 platform.<br class=""><br class="">cheers -ben<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>