About HyperCard ( was Re: [squeak-dev] Getting rid of coloured code)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu Feb 28 00:44:30 UTC 2013


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:31:36PM -0800, Casey Ransberger wrote:
> Ted Kaehler has done two implementations of DBJr AFAIK, one in Squeak and
> one in Javascript.
> 
> Here's the javascript version (for Lively Kernel)
> 
> http://forum.world.st/Try-DBJr-HyperCard-like-stacks-in-Lively-Kernel-td4599466.html
> 
> I had to dig to find the Moshi image, but here's an actual Squeak image --
> and I think this was the right image -- note that this was a prototype and
> that some things (e.g. saving) aren't implemented. Also, I can't get it to
> open anymore, but I think that might be because I don't have a non-Cog VM
> now? Not sure which .sources file you want but I'm betting it's V3. The
> file of interest is "Text Field for LObject.zip"
> 
> http://tinlizzie.org/lesserphic2/
> 
> I was really fascinated with both the approach and the presentation he did
> here. Active essays are cool.
> 
> Meantime I have to figure out why I can't open the image. I thought Cog
> could open older images, but interpreters can't open Cog images. Hmmm.

Casey,

Try an interpreter VM from squeakvm.org. It will run Cog images as well
as older Squeak image formats back to at least Squeak 3.6. It runs the
image attp://tinlizzie.org/lesserphic2/ without any problem.

Dave 



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