Squeak under MacOS X

Dan Ingalls Dan.Ingalls at disney.com
Wed Jan 3 05:19:07 UTC 2001


>In addition to the Classic + Carbon versions, there is a Cocoa  
>implementation maintained by myself, available from
>
>	http://www.metaobject.com/downloads/Squeak/
>
>I spent some time over the holidays giving this VM a major overhaul,  
>and will be posting an update as soon as we have completed the  
>switch-over of our web-server to a new machine.
>
>This overhaul fixes some bugs with modifiers keys not working  
>properly and the cursor-image changes not showing up, as well as  
>improving display speed somewhat.  However, display speed is still  
>less than stellar, due in large part to Quartz simply not being  
>optimized yet.  I expect this to improve for GM, and am also  
>exploring alternatives such as the direct-access APIs as well as  
>OpenGL.
> . . .

Nice work, Marcel!

	- Dan






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