By the way, I have a bit more of a possible legal/logistics question related to this...
Should I do the impossible and get a nice fully 'remixed for retro game tinkering' Etoys-based image created, would I be able to distribute that in any way and if so, what kind of restrictions would come with it? I'm not exactly looking to make a pay product or anything of that sort, but I would like to share my edits with folks and encourage them to use it and potentially that would involve distributing an ISO setup with everything ready to 'just run' on a pi400. That's the ideal, anyway. What kind of distribution considerations need to be addressed? I'm just asking preliminarily now so I can at least get an idea of what I don't know. On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM Jeremy Landry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all ,I wanted to follow up on this thread to let everyone know I > figured out the solution to my issues, but I suppose the exact issue should > be described before I describe the solution. > > PROBLEM: I want to run a proper Etoys on a Pi400. I don't necessarily > need it to load projects, I just need it to be able to make projects and > load THOSE projects. > > ISSUES I HAD: Finding a modern Etoys that runs properly AND doesn't have > the issues of older VMs. Squeak 6 has broken Etoys functionality in > fundamental ways that makes it unusable for serious projects (no playfield > viewer is the deal breaker...the weird 'heading' errors can be ignored with > new scripts). > > SOLUTION: Squeak 5.3 runs Etoys flawlessly on Pi400. > > I do hope Squeak can unbreak Etoys as honestly having any speed gains from > drawing optimization in newer Squeaks would be great, but I'm happy as a > clam right now. The next step is to start twisting linux into making the > environment I want Squeak to be in...(read: time to annoy a completely > different group of people on a completely different mailing list!) > > Thanks folks for listening and I hope anyone who wants to use proper Etoys > on a Pi400 can find this message. > > Once again, TLDR: If you want Etoys running perfectly on a pi400, get > Squeak 5.3. It's the literal only version that works properly I've > personally found. > > >
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