[squeak-dev] running old images

JohnReed Maffeo aldeveron at graffiti.net
Wed Oct 2 15:01:41 UTC 2013


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Arning
> Sent: 10/02/13 05:56 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: [squeak-dev] running old images
> 
> In looking for a baseline for the change set history, I tried to see how 
> early an image I could still run. That ended up being 2.5 with one small 
> glitch noticed. I simply could not get earlier images to run well or at 
> all. The Mac has gone through several processor/os changes since the 
> early squeak days and this complicates things. So,
> 
> - what's the earliest squeak image you can still run on your everyday 
> computer?
> - is there a way to run earlier than 2.5 on a modern Mac?
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob

I have a vague recollection of playing with vmac years ago. This project is its successor. 

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/doc/about.html

I don't have time to test it out right now, but it does look promising.

jrm


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