I ran a Nebraska session between two NT 4.0 workstations (over a LAN - it
was quick and very impressive!  In fact, the performance looked much better
than a VNC session over the same network (although the VNC session was to a
Win98 laptop).

Anyway, these were just basic virgin 2.8 images which I updated all the way,
then bumped versions to 2.9. and caught the new updates there. I don't know
of any special plug-ins.  I ran the session the evening the changes were
released, but I haven't had a chance to play with it any more since.

I do know that I'm very impressed- I've been waiting for this aspect for a
long time...

Also, I played around with the paint app within Nebraska.  The paintbrush
seemed confused by the presence of two hands, and tended to draw between
them.  I haven't had a chance to look at the code yet though.

Regardless, this along with the new communication stuff simply rocks!

BTW, I've got several Win2k machines here.  Perhaps this evening I'll have
enough time to copy Squeak over to a couple and see if Nebraska will work.
I'll report the results.

Jerry Bell
jdbell at fareselaw.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Arning [mailto:arning at charm.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 8:39 AM
To: spair at advantive.com; squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Nebraska


On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:13:57 -0400 spair at advantive.com (Stephen Pair) wrote:
>I just got caught up with the latest changes and noticed that Nebraska is
>now in the update stream (cool!).  I tried starting a Nebraska server and
>Squeak crashes (just after the network gets initialized).  I remember from
a
>while back that you needed a plugin or two...is that still the case?  Is
>there a special VM needed?
>
>I'm running on a Windows 2000 machine.

Stephen,

There is a small plugin that is optional (I don't have it). If you know how
to build plugins, you might try translating IntegerPokerPlugin and building
that. The VM I'm using is the Mac 2.8beta5 from mid-June and I don't know if
there is anything special about it. Maybe the new socket stuff has something
to do with it.

Most of our testing recently has been on the Mac with maybe a bit of *nix. I
don't know if it has run on Windows in its current incarnation. Maybe when
Lex gets in he will have an idea.

If you want to try debugging it, let me know - I'll be happy to help.

Cheers,
Bob