ChrisGrindstaff

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ChrisGrindstaff

Email: mailto:chrisg@appliedreasoning.com

Webpage: http://www.appliedreasoning.com/

Applied Reasoning
111 Corning Rd., Suite 220
Cary NC 27511
919-851-7677

WilliamBurdick and I have finished the initial SqueakPorts

http://www.appliedreasoning.com/goodies/squeak/

To do the port we used djgpp (GNU for DOS) and Allegro (Game Library for DOS).

Currently TCP/IP and sound are unsupported. And there is a problem with finding sources and changes files. I haven't studied this problem in depth yet and need to figure out some way to handle filenames as Squeak assumes long filenames.

Well, for the changes and sources files, you can modify SystemDictionary>>sourcesName and changesName

If you rename the image to a filename that has no extension, DosSqueak is persuaded to find the changes file - StefanKapusniak [Well, I wonder what you mean by that, Stefan. If the image is named 'SQUEAK', then the sources file is named: '???']

Some of you may ask why anyone would want to run Squeak on such a horrible operating system?

I have three main motives:

Many people have it. More so in areas of the world where "hand-me-down" computers are just appearing.
It's cool to think about inserting a floppy into lots of machines, turning the machine on and having it boot DOS, and then load Squeak.
Why I do many things: to learn.