Squeak 3.0 for OS/2

Being completely portable, people of it's user community have ported it to most existing platforms. I did and mantain the Squeak OS/2 port.
 

Squeak for OS/2 Warp

[UPDATED: 02/05/2001]

This is a native, high performance Squeak port, wrote especifically for OS/2. It uses DIVE, a game oriented display API from IBM, that uses hardware acceleration to achieve fast display updates. The result is a quite fast Squeak even on a 486 machine.

I included a convenient mapping of several keys in the VM. Ctrl-Break and Esc are the interrupt keys and, Ctrl-Ins, Shft-Ins and Shft-Del manage the clipboard (emulating Alt-c, Alt-v and Alt-x). Besides all Squeak color depth are supported from 1 to 32 bit. If you select a Squeak color mode with more colors that your OS/2 desktop, color dithering will occur, giving a very good illusion of having more colors than you really have.

This version has support for sound and TCP/IP networking. It doesn't still have support for MIDI, serial port or joystick. I will keep anhacing it.

System requeriments (If you want lower requeriments, send me a note. I might work on it)

• Long file name support (install Squeak on a HPFS or network drive)
• DIVE video dlls (Installed by default by OS/2 Warp 4 Multimedia Support, but can be added to any OS/2)
• DART audio dlls (Installed when installing an audio card, but can be added even without one)
• Video mode with at least 256 colors, and support for DIVE (any driver should work)


Files to download

• Squeak.exe Squeak 3.0 package for OS/2
• SqueakOS2VMSources C sources for the VM


To unzip theese files, you will need an UNZIP program or similar, for OS/2 or Windows, that supports long filenames.

If you want to see how it was done, or want to experiment with it, you may also download the VM source files.

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