Mmm…Raspberry Pi
25 November, 2012
Tim Rowledge is working on the Raspberry Pi. There are old sources for a RiscOS virtual machine at http://www.squeakvm.org. They have been obsolete for a while. With this new platform, Tim is going to bake an updated RiscOS virtual machine for Squeak that works on the Raspberry Pi computer. Pi will be served early in 2013.
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25 November, 2012 at 16:17
This is really great to hear, I have my own Pi but could not run Pharo image on VM provided with Raspbian.
26 November, 2012 at 21:09
Looking forward to help with this if possible, but as far as I know one can use the interpreted VM to run the latest Squeak/Pharo images. On your PI, you just have to recompile the VM from http://www.squeakvm.org/unix/release/Squeak-4.10.2.2614-
src.tar.gz (or a newer one)
It will not run very fast since it has no JIT but, it runs.
Best regards,
Dan.
28 November, 2012 at 19:18
Just to clarify – I’m going to get Squeak running on RISC OS on the Pi, since there has been quite a bit of interest in RISC OS as a much faster, less intrusive and annoying platform on the Pi hardware. That part *ought* not take too long.
Then, subject to having some sensible opportunity – i.e. *money* from somewhere so I can live whilst working on it – I will attack the Cog for ARM side of things, which should benefit both RISC OS and those lesser OSs as well as speeding up Scratch. And then maybe hit on the graphics system of the Pi to see if some of my ancient (circa 1990) self-compiling BitBLT tricks still have any value.
29 November, 2012 at 23:40
@Tim, great to hear. I’m sure both Lars and I will be eager to help with advice etc.
29 November, 2012 at 23:42
@Time, great to hear! Don’t hesitate to ask questions re Cog. Cheers!
30 November, 2012 at 00:46
The *only* question of any great import is whether you know of someone that will provide the money…
20 December, 2012 at 18:30
How about http://www.indiegogo.com ?
15 February, 2013 at 14:39
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