4 or so years ago Andreas did a Squeak port to the SONY "Tool" which was a 
kind of workstation that used PS II as its base. He put a lot of energy 
into the port and got it done in 2 days. Croquet uses OpenGL (and I think 
that SONY does not quite provide OpenGL)

Cheers,

Alan

At 04:01 PM 2/10/2005, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> > A quick search on the google list shows that Squeak was ported to
> > PS2/linux, however I'd like to do a native build.  I run the web site
> > www.ps2dev.org where a group of people have created an open source dev
> > kit for the ps2.  We have a gcc cross compiler, and enough libraries to
> > get to most parts of the ps2.
>That will help.
>
> >  We have drivers for USB mouse and
> > keyboard so it should be possible to have the whole environment put on a
> > memory card or CD on a stock standard PS2.  There's 32MB memory in the
> > PS2, so not sure if that will be a problem.
>32Mb is going to be a bit tight for typical images. I'm sure you've
>seen the email traffic on smaller images etc so I won't repeat the
>verbiage. You may need to restrict yourself to smaller screen sizes for
>a while for example.
> >
> > So where do I start?  Links, examples, etc would be helpful.
>Read the VMMaker related pages on the swiki :-
>http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/VMMaker
>and ignore any crap you see about CVS and SourceForge since we now host
>the platforms code tree on subversion at 
>http://squeak.hpl.hp.com/svn/squeak/trunk
>
>You should find that browsing through the paltforms files for any
>machine you're already familiar with will give you plenty of clues
>about what you need to do.
>
>I was going to point you to the swiki for the nu-blue book chapter on
>porting (out of date but still useful) but I see the swiki has been
>pretty much destroyed.
>
>After you've read the swiki and browsed the platforms code, get back to
>us with questions. By and large we're fairly friendly to porters ;-)
>
>
>tim
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