Squeak on frame buffer

Aaron J Reichow reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Mon Sep 10 18:52:45 UTC 2001


On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> HNBeck at t-online.de (Hans N. Beck) is widely believed to have written:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > will there be in future a squeak which may run in a frame buffer as in
> > X windows, with the same VM ? Is it difficult to port Squeak to i.e.
> > directFB ?
> I'm not absolutely sure what you're asking, but I'll try to offer some
> useful info;
> - I did a port to Itsy ages ago which wrote to /dev/fb. Somebody else
> took this code and used it for some other system (sorry, can't remember
> who).

I think it was Jay Carlson who did the port, for Squeak on Linux on the
Helio PDA.  There may be some code at
ftp://ftp.sourceforge.com/pub/vhl-tools/.

Aaron

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