Squeak help needed -
Tim Rowledge is looking for programmers that can help with getting some of the features from the original Mac version of Smalltalk into his
RISC OS port of
Squeak. Features currently missing are mainly to do with sound, including MIDI playback, and serial port access. A lot of good educational resources are available for Squeak, so here's your chance to step up to the plate, as they say in America...
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SqueakGraphical effects - I've just been told that Rob Davison, he of
Compo fame, has released an early version of his new bitmap effects prog
Variations to download. It seems to work very much like texture explorers - one main image in the middle, with eight variations ringing it - and offers some cool filters from saturation to funky shaded masks. Update: a slightly newer version is now hosted on his TIB subdomain due to various problems on some of his other sites.
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VariationsArtWorks transparency preview - Martin's got a page up
here showing how transparency will work when his new Crystal module is released later this month. Mmm... More on this when it's released.
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CrystalOld Computers - And after updating my own computer museum, a
posting on Slashdot about the old
Domesday Project being unreadable after only 15 years (
The Domesday Project used BBC Masters using a custom laserdisc system to produce a wealth of information about the UK in 1986, the modern equivalent of the
account taken after William I moved into
his new home) lead me on a tour of other obsolete hardware museums with Acorn kit in them. These include
Binary Dinosaurs,
The Machine Room/
Tardis,
Old-Computers.com,
Heimcomputer,
Kevan's Computer Collection and many more.
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John Hoare (20:55 4/3/2002)
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Richard Goodwin (09:54 5/3/2002)
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Michael Drake (18:06 5/3/2002)
Richard Goodwin (18:07 5/3/2002)
Andrew P Harmsworth (22:42 5/3/2002)
John Hoare (14:06 6/3/2002)
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Mr Jake Monkeyson |
Message #90436, posted at 17:18, 4/3/2002 |
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Variations looks snazzy. Good work!
I'm working with the Camelion lot as part of my final year project at uni. I got the chance to play with one of the (semi)working Domesday machines. Fantastic. The Domesday project puts a lot of current multimedia resources to shame. |
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Message #90437, posted at 17:34, 4/3/2002, in reply to message #90436 |
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Richard: Loved the stuff about the old computers. Thanks!
Didn't the BBC Master used to run the Domesday project have a custom built interface in it?
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #90438, posted at 17:40, 4/3/2002, in reply to message #90437 |
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One of the problems getting the Domesday book converted to modern machines is that there's a lot of custom stuff in it :( And at 5000 UKP at the time (15 years ago) there aren't too many of them out there.
I do remember playing with one at College though, for the maps alone it was a really good resource.
BTW folks, it looks like www.domesdaybook.co.uk has been Slashdotted, as it worked this morning and won't display now. It's in the Google cache though. |
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Message #90439, posted at 19:10, 4/3/2002, in reply to message #90438 |
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Smalltalk - brings back fond memories of my University Computer Science lab :) |
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John Hoare |
Message #90440, posted at 20:55, 4/3/2002, in reply to message #90439 |
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Variations looks nice :-) |
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Anonymous |
Message #90441, posted at 09:41, 5/3/2002, in reply to message #90440 |
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Will variations work with Compo, Rob? e.g. PCA |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #90442, posted at 09:54, 5/3/2002, in reply to message #90441 |
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It is PCA, I know that much. And given who wrote both apps... :) |
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Message #90443, posted at 12:47, 5/3/2002, in reply to message #90442 |
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Big problem with converting the BBC's Doomsday book to another standard, is the agreement that every contributor signed didn't allow for the BBC to reprint it in another form without seeking permission from everybody again. Big cockup, really. |
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Michael Drake |
Message #90444, posted at 18:06, 5/3/2002, in reply to message #90443 |
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The new links to variations are broken, I think.
The current one is:
http://compo.iconbar.com/variation.htm
but this:
http://compo.iconbar.com/variations.htm
works.
Cheers,
Mike |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #90445, posted at 18:07, 5/3/2002, in reply to message #90444 |
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mod_speling (sic) sorts it out though. |
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Andrew P Harmsworth |
Message #90446, posted at 22:42, 5/3/2002, in reply to message #90445 |
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Variations doesn't just look nice, it works superbly too! I dropped a picture of (cough) Britney into it, and it can do lovely things, you know! :-)
I'm impressed. |
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John Hoare |
Message #90447, posted at 14:06, 6/3/2002, in reply to message #90446 |
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Britney? You want to try Eliza Dushku... |
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