Hi Germán, Tansel,
Germán Arduino pravi:
I wonder if squeak.org could host a subdomain or so to save this invaluable material you produced...
I open an Archive page on our website:
http://www.squeak.org/PressRoom/Archive/
Here we can slowly put all such historical material which is so important to save and store on the safe place.
Let we put there all unzipped .iso files, which contain Squeak images, which then show the E-Zine, right? Question now is how to run them on nowaday VMs, because the VM is missing on the .iso.
Can someone spare some time and put together a "one-click" image with appropriate VM?
Best regards Janko
2009/7/5 tansel@squeakonline.com:
Hi Scott,
Quoting Scott Brown sukottoburaun@yahoo.co.jp:
I am looking for articles from the Squeak News E-Zine which was produced in 2001, but the website http://www.squeaknews.com/ appears to be vandalised and the links don't work.
That is unfortunately true. I lost ownership of the domain at one stage and whoever got it seems to have copied some content and put some spam under it. Never had the time to investigate if there is any way to stop them doing that.
Are the articles available elsewhere?
They are, but probably not easily accessible. I should put a html download page that is searchable, meanwhile you can use the following links to download them.
http://www.squeakonline.com/Download/OldIssues/CDImages/july2001final.zip http://www.squeakonline.com/Download/OldIssues/CDImages/aug2001final.zip http://www.squeakonline.com/Download/OldIssues/CDImages/sept2001pub.zip http://www.squeakonline.com/Download/OldIssues/CDImages/oct2001final.zip http://www.squeakonline.com/Download/OldIssues/CDImages/nov2001postfinal.zip
Tansel
Hi Janko,
Quoting Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek@eranova.si:
Hi Germán, Tansel,
Germán Arduino pravi:
I wonder if squeak.org could host a subdomain or so to save this invaluable material you produced...
I open an Archive page on our website:
http://www.squeak.org/PressRoom/Archive/
Here we can slowly put all such historical material which is so important to save and store on the safe place.
Thanks!
Let we put there all unzipped .iso files, which contain Squeak images, which then show the E-Zine, right? Question now is how to run them on nowaday VMs, because the VM is missing on the .iso.
Isos have VMs inside but I have only tested the Windows VMs on them recently but I have used ISO mounted disks to run them in various systems all the time. And it turns out it is not even a problem with Mac OS X because I was able to run them with my default VM by just double clicking the ezine.image. One problem I encountered though was Mac complains the ISO format may be corrupted. They still work though.
Interestingly those issues turned out to be good examples of "write once run everywhere" motto. Seeing them run on Mac OS-X is great. Even today opening them up and seeing examples such as "Audio Explorer" in "Active Essays in Studying Computer Music" makes me proud. Compare this to the mess we are in with browsers and Javascript today which is said to be a great improvement over 5 years ago!
Once we had a great little system with so much potential. I am still trying to comprehend where we went wrong and weren't able to "play it grand" with this "dinky little system" that had so much potential. And I have been following the discussions we have been having recently and I can't see the answers in them. I think we are missing the big picture somewhere but I can't pinpoint where.
Can someone spare some time and put together a "one-click" image with appropriate VM?
Never had a chance to reformat them and not likely to be able to do so in the near future but if there were any volunteers to do anything with them I'd be glad to answer any questions.
Cheers,
Tansel
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