Squeak has a Timbuktu-like screen sharing facility with a chat and VOIP interface, and "badges" that can hold the pictures and addresses of others who are using Squeak on the net. It works and has been demoed many times, but we've never been satisfied with it for a number of reasons, and are currently in the process of replacing this using the mechanisms of Croquet ( http://opencroquet.org which is much better supported, deals with transmitting events rather than screen bits, can be used on very low bandwidth connections, etc.)
My advice would be to treat this as a currently unsupported feature and not try to use it.
Cheers,
Alan
P.S. A more supported use of networks in Etoys is Netmorphs, which logically connect up remote PCs using Squeak so each screen is a tile in a much larger virtual screen. So, e.g., a child can make a car and drive it off the screen and it will appear on someone else's computer screen. Here is a recent message from the author, Umezawa-san:
From: Masashi Umezawa umejava@mars.dti.ne.jp
Hello all,
NetMorph 0.3 for Squeakland 05 is finally available.
Pre-installed image: ftp://swikis.ddo.jp/NetMorph/demoImages/NetMorph-Sq05.zip
How to use: http://swikis.ddo.jp/NetMorph/12
This is the first official version for Squeakland 05 image.
If you found some bugs, please send a report to me!
Enjoy! --- [:masashi | ^umezawa]
At 02:00 AM 10/27/2005, Mark Engelberg wrote:
The squeakland website claims that while running squeak, you have access to a folder of friends, with whom you can type, voice chat, and share projects. Does this feature really exist? If so, how?
Thanks,
Mark
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