Etoys

Etoys running on the OLPC display

Squeak Etoys was inspired by LOGO, PARC-Smalltalk, Hypercard, and starLOGO. It is a media-rich authoring environment with a simple powerful scripted object model for many kinds of objects created by end-users that runs on many platforms, and is free and open source. It includes 2D and 3D graphics, images, text, particles, pres-entations, web-pages, videos, sound and MIDI, etc. It includes the ability to share desktops with other Etoy users in real-time, so many forms of immersive mentoring and play can be done over the Internet. It is multilingual, runs on more than 20 platforms bit-identically, and has been successfully used in USA, Europe, South America, Japan, Korea, India, Nepal, and elsewhere.

Further reading: http://www.squeakland.org/school/HTML/essays/essays.html

For Developers

The current Etoys version for OLPC is based on the squeakland.org image. It runs on the latest Squeak VM with minimal Sugar glue code.

There is a mailinglist: etoys@laptop.org (to be created soon).

Downloads are here: http://tinlizzie.org/olpc

Remember to update your image!

Sugar: For running inside Sugar, use sugar-jhbuild with this patch: sugar-jhbuild-etoys.diff

git apply sugar-jhbuild-etoys.diff
./sugar-jhbuild build etoys

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