Am 12.02.2005 um 10:30 schrieb David Ryan:

>
> Hi Alan,
>
>> 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)
>
> The Sony "Tool" is the official development environment for 
> Playstation2 and requires NDAs to work with.  The ps2dev.org web site 
> and associated software is all developed by programmers that do not 
> use the "Tool", and have not signed NDAs.  The development environment 
> we use is on a standard PS2 using a network adapter to upload 
> programs.
>
> We have a development kit called ps2sdk which includes all the base 
> libraries; including libc, access to operating system calls, tcp/ip 
> stack, sound libraries, etc.  ps2sdk is licensed under a free Academic 
> Free License to make it easy to link with other free software.  We 
> also have various graphic libraries including dreamGL which is a very 
> basic OpenGL implementation (also AFL licensed).  Over the last couple 
> of days, a SDL port was also implemented.  I don't think we should 
> have much missing in terms of libraries to port squeak.
>
> It would be interesting to hear what issues if any Andreas had porting 
> to the "Tool".  I doubt I could use any of his code though, as I 
> suspect there may be problems with NDA and licensing.
>
> Most of the issues I suspect I'll have with the port is being 
> inexperienced with squeak.  So far the only things I've managed to do 
> is: install squeak, run VMMaker and install a subversion client. I got 
> stuck behind a bad firewall, so couldn't get any further.  Hopefully 
> Sunday, I'll get subversion running.
>
> Anyway, I'll be sure to be back on the list soon with questions.

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