Hello!
I have a problem
with running Pharo 2.0 on one of my machines. I have two machines, both running
Windows XP with SP3. On one of them I have a successful load of Pharo (actually
it's a distribution of the Moose system, but that is just an application built
on Pharo 2.0). This loads successfully when I double click on pharo.exe. On the
other machine, the same action produces an immediate message: 'Pharo.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close'. Just in case
this was some problem with Moose, I have just downloaded the latest one-click
installation of Pharo 2.0 for Windows. This displays exactly the same behaviour
- an immediate fail when I try to start it.
I have
tried to work out what may be different between the two machines. The one which
will run Pharo has an Intel Celeron processor, the other an AMD Athlon XP (yes,
they are both pretty ancient!), but I can't see why that should make any
difference. The one curious thing is that Windows Explorer displays the type of
the Pharo2.0.image file as 'Squeak image file'. There is an old version of
Squeak installed on that machine; could that have any
effect?
I am a
bit flummoxed by all this. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to
diagnose the problem?
Many
thanks
Peter
Kenny