On Sun, 2019-03-03 at 13:47 -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 03:48:25PM -0500, Robert Kuropkat wrote:
Is there an updated Ready.image file (the one that goes with the book) that works with the latest Squeak? I'm looking to teach a class and wanted to use this book, but at first blush, the image does not seem to work with Squeak 5.2 (on Linux at least).
Hi Robert,
I do not remember anyone mentioning an update to the image, so I suspect that the original image that came with the book would be the one to use.
The most recent VMs for Squeak will probably not run an image from that era, but if you are using Linux for the class, it will not be difficult to provide a compatible VM.
If the Ready.image is available for download, could you please give a link to the download site? I would be happy to take a look at it and suggest a suitable VM for running that image.
Dave
Dave,
I retrieved the download from here: https://github.com/apress/squeak I grabbed the ReadyPC-05052005.zip. It worked fine on Linux using the latest Squeak v3. It would not work in v4 or v5. I was also planning to use Squeak By Example (which I believe is v4 era) as well as other, more modern examples for a beginner class. Version 3, 4 and 5 are all available for Windows, Mac and Linux. I **could** have students install all three versions (I did that on Linux) but was kind of hoping to avoid that if it was possible to port these images to v5.
The ReadyPC zip file contains the following:
luth.frm Ready.changes Ready.image spider.frm Squeak.exe SqueakV3. sources
Robert Kuropkat