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Crosstalk: Smalltalk 80 for Raspberry Pi

Article is here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/relive-part-xerox-parcs-history-smalltalk-80-raspberry-michael-engel/

and code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/michaelengel/crosstalk

Smalltalk 80 VM

Dan Banay released (on the day of the 80th anniversary of Alan Kay) a fully functional Smalltalk-80 VM capable of running the original ST-80 images as distributed by Xerox Parc in 1979 and 1980. Really nice, especially when you check the code which is available on

https://github.com/dbanay/Smalltalk

PDF and SVG from Athens in Pharo

Latest Pharo 9alpha image includes an AthensCairoPDFSurface and an AthensCairoSVGSurface class which you can use to easily create a PDF or SVG from an Athens Graphic Canvas in Pharo

Just click on the picture:

Compendium for Pharo

Compendium for Pharo is now able to show a list per repository and a list of repos per author for the GitHub projects.

Also it shows the old Catalog entries - so finding project and code should be fairly easy now ...

Code is on https://github.com/astares/Pharo-Compendium

Pandemics were explained and visualized by Alan back in 1998 using Squeak Smalltalk and particle simulation in Morphic in this video:


 

 And the BouncingAtomsMorph still works in recent Squeak Smalltalk just in case you want to show it to your kids ...

Pharo and Repl.it

I tried repl.it  with a simple script to download and run Pharo headless and also Pharo UI Works nicely - within the top right part of the browser window one can even see and use the Pharo window.

Clickable but X-Windows emulation does not seem to show the full window (try clicking on "full screen mode" in the welcome window to adjust this).

Try this https://repl.it/@astares/Run-Pharo-9#main.sh



Just consider to create an own account on repl.it and use the following code in a main.sh:

echo *********************************************
echo * Download and run Pharo
echo *********************************************

# prepare
if [ -d build ]; then rm -Rf build; fi
mkdir build
cd build

# download 
wget -O- https://get.pharo.org/64/90+vm | bash

# run
./pharo-ui ./Pharo.image

Chanel for Pharo

Chanel: a code cleaner for Pharo Smalltalk

Source code is here: https://github.com/jecisc/Chanel

Roasssal 3 with SVG importer

Roassal 3 - the visualization engine for Pharo now also provides an SVG importer

    https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3

Uncommon-Themes for Pharo

A little collection of themes for Pharo, really uncommon. But maybe you like it and want to give it a try.

https://github.com/David5i6/Uncommon-Themes

PharoImageCreatorForGithubCi

This tool is the easiest way to create Pharo images with your project and release them on the Github Releases page.

Project is on GitHub: https://github.com/oliveiraallex/PharoImageCreatorForGithubCi

Atomic game

Atomic game - written in Pharo. The objective of the game is to build molecules moving the given atoms.

Source code is on:

https://github.com/grpistoia/Atomic

Testing Pharo UFFI Binding with Travis

Want to test your Pharo project using FFI with Travis-CI using Smalltalk-CI. Benoît "badetitou" Verhaeghe explains how to use it.

Google Firebase REST API and Pharo

Peter provides a simple Smalltalk layer on top of the Google Firebase REST API for Pharo:

https://github.com/psvensson/firebase-st

Pharo MOOC now on Youtube

The MOOC for Pharo is now available on Youtube

Roassal3 Video exporter

There is a Video exporter for Roassal3 made with osprocess, ffmpeg and Pharo. Read more here.