MSK Software Development

When I bought my Mac Mini I also bought a Bluetooth based mouse - the original one was not available, therefore I decided to buy the Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000. The mac recognizes the mouse and the cursor can be moved, but something is not as nice as it should be.

I have a rather large screen (1900×1200) and it’s a long way with that mouse and at the end-point of my movement it seems to be also difficult to point the mouse exactly at the end point I had in mind, when starting the mouse movement.

Difficult to complain, but actually I am not satisfied with that …

I got my first Christmas present on Wednesday - a Mac Mini, running under Mac OS X. I never had a Macintosh computer before and therefore its a complete new world for me.

My first impression was: nice and smart. Installation went pretty well, but the Mac Mini smells after opening in the air like cheap plastic.

After the first evening I started to look for development tools - first I looked for Smalltalk.

VASmalltalk

The windows version is in general runnable under Wine under Mac OSX 10.6. I was not able to run the normal installation, but I zipped my original Windows based installation and copied the installation under the “Wine Files” folder under my Mac account.

Then I changed abt.ini according to my Mac Wine settings and copies abt.icx and abt.ini into the bin folder.

Then the system started without problems, connecting to ENVY working without problems.