[squeak-dev] In the hacker news // Squeak on Raspberry Pi

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 22:59:28 UTC 2015


Karl,

Thank you for the links.

Main improvements of the new Squeak version on Raspberry Pi are

-    a significant increase in speed, Scratch up to 10 times faster
     (thanks to Cog by Eliot Miranda)
-    the addition of a built-in GPIO server.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-new-version-of-scratch-for-raspberry-pi-now-with-added-gpio/

Is there a page with more details?

--Hannes

On 10/10/15, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:20 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>
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>> > On 10-10-2015, at 2:10 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hackaday post:
>> >
>> http://hackaday.com/2015/10/08/latest-raspberry-pi-images-have-improved-scratch/
>> >
>> > Hacker News post:
>> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10363088
>> >
>>
>> On the one hand publicity is good, on the other... just read the
>> comments.
>> Sigh. So many idiots.
>>
> I'll cut them some slack :-)
> There is only so much attention span around. Once it runs out, the result
> is quite random.
> And the rabbit hole runs very deep on projects like Scratch, with several
> implementations etc.
>
> Karl
>
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Strange OpCodes: CPE: Create Parity Error
>>
>>
>>
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