Re: Hobbes Emulator licensed NOT SPAM

Stef,

you tried to activate me by
>Cool
>Wolf what about publish a MC package on squeaksource?
>and automagically producing a SqueakMap entry each time you will  
>produce a new version.
>The technology is there and cool.

I know. Thank you for the invitation. Which I decline. After all 95 % of the
code is from Vassily and Dan.

I added one percent to make Hobbes run on a little Endian architecture.

The remaining four percent went to the AltoFileStream. Remember the problems I
had with the natural numbers starting with one instead of zero?

Those four percent went in because I naively assumed that the image is storing
the snapshot onto the alto disk. So I modified Hobbes to read the snapshot from
an alto file stream instead of from a standard file stream.

But when I finished the AltoFileStream I learned that the image does not at all
store the snapshot file. This would be the job of the VM. (primitive 97). Which
makes the AltoFileStream an exercise as instructive as useless.

Probably I won't need to change Hobbes any further for my master task, which is
studying the Blue Book and implementing an ST-80 VM on top of Unix and X-Window.
(Don't hold your breath as I am really slow and I have no time schedule.) The
Hobbes Emulator was helpful especially in finding out about the file format of
the ST-80-V2-image. See

        http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/st80/ImageFormat.txt

By now I am looking forward to some further docs regarding the image file format
which Luc and Mario promised.

I do not object to someone storing it into the Squeak source repository, as long
as Vassili's license is observed, someone is going to maintain it -- and someone
is not me :-).

Thank you all for your support.

Greetings,
Wolfgang


--
Weniger, aber besser.

> I know. Thank you for the invitation. Which I decline. After all 95  
> % of the
> code is from Vassily and Dan.

This has nothing to do with ownership, this has to do with access,  
backup, versioning!!!!
Why it is difficult to understand that? I do not know.
You can publish on squeaksource and let everybody access or update it  
or not.

I will.
I really do not understand why you do not use the right tools. But if  
you want to spend
you time finding the right versions of Cs to run something, this is  
your choice.
But this way in 5 years from now, when you will be doing something  
else I or others will still be
able to access the code.

Stef