Sorry all; this was intended as a private communication. I'll learn 
how to run these idiot computers one day yet!

At 13:47 -0500 12/10/99, David N. Smith \(IBM\) wrote:
>At 15:00 -0500 12/9/99, Jeff Pierce wrote:
>>Yup, Squeak Alice is definitely still alive.  Working on my PhD has just
>>kept me too busy recently to make any significant improvements.  While the
>>CMU Alice project has 3 full time staff members, 5 PhD students, and a
>>small horde of undergraduates working on it, Squeak Alice basically has
>>only me (and Andreas, who adds something cool now and then).
>>
>>Things to keep your eyes out for in the coming months:
>>
>>- A Squeak Alice chapter for Mark Guzdial's Squeak Book
>>- Hardware acceleration (I'm looking forward to Andreas' new Balloon 3D
>>implementation)
>>- A new interface and rebuilt engine room (thesis work permitting)
>>
>>Other possibilities are integrating a 3D modeler (I think Alan's team has
>>an intern working on a Squeak version of Teddy) and a 3D paint tool (I've
>>toyed with the idea of building one from time to time) to allow end to end
>>3D content creation (model, paint, animate) in Squeak Alice.
>>
>>Meanwhile, I haven't had any bug reports or requests from the Squeak
>>community at all. Surely there's functionality y'all would like to see.
>>What do you wish Squeak Alice could do?  What bugs have you run into?
>>
>>Jeff
>
>Jeff:
>
>Thanks! We're looking at Squeak for several research projects, 
>including one involving children, and I'm trying to find out what's 
>there and what's real and what's going to be around.
>
>I've been Squeaking for several years now, but only on my time. I 
>keep pushing it at work, and got a huge boost from Dan's OOPSLA demo 
>which several managers form here saw; it helps that they're 
>Smalltalkers anyway!
>
>I just started looking at Alice (beyond the demo) and so far cannot 
>find where the rabbit is defined anywhere. I'm starting to suspect 
>it doesn't, that it was loaded from a disk definition once and exist 
>only in that one window?
>
>Is there any way to open an Alice character directly in the World?
>
>Looking forward to your planned improvements...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave
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