[Newbies] Squeak by example image

[David T. Lewis]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:10:56PM -0400, Robert Kuropkat wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> Thank-you for the remind.  I think you mentioned this to me once before
> and I had not yet followed up on it.  I'll need to give it a try soon.
> 
> Robert Kuropkat
> 
> P.S.  Just for giggles I found a 3.x port of Squeak for OS/2 and was
> able to get both images to start up in it also :-)
> 

Oh, that is really great :-) The OS/2 version of the Squeak VM
was done by Juan Vuletich:

  http://www.jvuletich.org/Squeak/SqueakForOS2/SqueakForOS2Eng.html

Nowadays, Juan is the leader and inspiration behind Cuis, which
is well worth checking out:

  https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev

And of course, do not forget to look into the latest versions
of Squeak, which continues to advance at a rapid pace :-)

Dave

> 
> On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 20:54 -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> > Hi Steve (and Robert),
> > 
> > If the suggestion of using Squeak 3.9 or 3.10 does not work, then
> > I will mention also that if you are using Linux, then you can
> > build a new Squeak virtual machine (VM) that will run the old
> > SqueakByExample-1.3.image on any modern Linux machine.
> > 
> > There is no longer any official support for this, but it is
> > maintained
> > informally for Linux, and an interested Linux user can build the
> > VM by following the instructions at 
> > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6354.
> > 
> > I checked by running the image in SqueakByExample-1.3.zip on my
> > 64-bit Ubuntu Linux laptop, and it works fine for me.
> > 
> > I do not know if this will work on Windows or OS X. Probably not,
> > but I do not know for sure.
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 07:51:26PM -0400, Robert Kuropkat wrote:
> > > 
> > > You need to use Squeak 3.9 or 3.10.  If you are using Linux you
> > > will
> > > need to install some 32-bit Libraries.  If you have trouble with
> > > that I
> > > think I have some notes on what is needed.  You can also run the
> > > ReadyPC image which is the one for "Squeak: Learn Programming With
> > > Robots" with Squeak 3.8-3.10 but will need the V3Sources file as
> > > well.
> > > Robert Kuropkat
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 16:21 -0700, Steve Quezadas wrote:
> > > > Has anyone played around with Squeak by Example? The only place I
> > > > can
> > > > find the image is here:
> > > > 
> http://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/4624/SqueakByExample-1.3.zip
> > > > md5sum is here: 79b5df8ba51ae1fa3a852048ba8d27d0
> > > > 
> > > > I tried to run it in my Squeak instance. I am running 5.2, but
> > > > it's
> > > > not loading. Do I need to load a previous version of squeak?
> > > > There is
> > > > no readme file.
> > > > 
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