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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