Looking for old Smalltalks for DOS

Aaron Reichow revaaron at bitquabit.com
Fri Mar 2 23:43:56 UTC 2007


David-

Yes, in fact it still is! I've run it too, and it's pretty wild.   
And, just to share, it works great in DOSbox!

Regards,
Aaron

On Feb 27, 2007, at 4:25 PM, David Mitchell wrote:

> Chris Grindstaff did a port of Squeak to DOS back around 1.18. (I  
> ran it
> a few times back then on my 486.) Probably still on a server  
> somewhere.
>
> Aaron Reichow wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> This a call for old versions of Smalltalk.  I used to have a  
>> couple  of them, and feeling the urge to see if they work in  
>> DOSbox on OS X,  I having tried in vain to find them. I did find  
>> my copy of Smalltalk/ V 3.0 for DOS and use a computer at my  
>> wife's work for this purpose  to copy files off the 5.25" disks,  
>> and it works! This is a graphical  version of Smalltalk for DOS  
>> that doesn't work well in DOSbox,  perhaps problems with EGA  
>> drivers or something.  But I did have  another version of  
>> Smalltalk for DOS that worked entirely with text  windows, though  
>> I can't remember the precise name/version of the  software-  
>> Smalltalk/V 286 perhaps?
>>
>> Anyway, if you have a copy of this, could you please send it my way?
>>
>> In addition, I am very interested in any old version of Smalltalk  
>> for  various OSes, though only for Mac and PC hardware. I'd love  
>> to see a  real version of Smalltalk-80 running on an old Mac, for  
>> instance.   Please email me if you can help me out with this!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aaron
>>
>>
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