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Mmm…Raspberry Pi

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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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8 responses to “Mmm…Raspberry Pi”

  1. Jakub Avatar
    Jakub

    This is really great to hear, I have my own Pi but could not run Pharo image on VM provided with Raspbian.

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  2. Dan Corneanu Avatar
    Dan Corneanu

    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.

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  3. Tim Rowledge Avatar
    Tim Rowledge

    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.

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  4. Eliot Miranda Avatar
    Eliot Miranda

    @Tim, great to hear. I’m sure both Lars and I will be eager to help with advice etc.

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  5. eliotmiranda Avatar
    eliotmiranda

    @Time, great to hear! Don’t hesitate to ask questions re Cog. Cheers!

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  6. Tim Rowledge Avatar
    Tim Rowledge

    The *only* question of any great import is whether you know of someone that will provide the money…

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  7. Carl Gundel Avatar
    Carl Gundel

    How about http://www.indiegogo.com ?

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