FunSqueak is a great resource

> On 31-05-2014, at 12:27 PM, David T. Lewis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Tim Rowledge - don't forget to look at this image for your Raspberry Pi
>> presentations!
>
> I¹m ahead of you; I used this image for a demo at a meeting I presented in
> London a few weeks ago - not that I actually went to London, we did the whole
> thing via Skype. Which, to my total amazement actually worked perfectly for
> the entire meeting.
>
> Since I know everybody will be utterly *fascinated*, here¹s the story. I was
> contacted by the the ROUGOL folk (that RISC OS User Group Of London) and asked
> to talk to them about Squeak & Scratch on RISC OS on the Pi. So I arranged to
> send a set of images across to run locally (in the fairly nice looking pub
> they use for meetings) so that I could talk and direct a carefully trained
> demonstrator on the spot.
>
> I knocked up a very simple ³this is what Smalltalk looks like² image from a
> 4.5 image just as an introduction. In fact it¹s currently at
> https://copy.com/9xGpGdHRoaKiMl2W for the terminally bored. It might be nice
> to build a lot more demoey stuff into it.
> I sent them Edgar¹s funsqueak image too but there are quite a few problems
> with running it in a RISC OS Pi, sadly. The 3D stuff simply fails, copy and
> paste breaks horribly, other problems that I imagine are partly due to
> cramming so many projects into one image and the potential clashes that
> causes.
> I also sent them a RISC OS ready Scratch,
>
> All in all it was great fun and everybody hung around for just under two
> hours! As a way to demo the joys of Squeak to people you can¹t actually get to
> physically meet it was very successful.
>
> tim
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