eToys(6)

📦 version 5.0.2408, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 eToys(6) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the eToys(6) manual page 🎀 section 6, the games/graphics corner of the manual, and honestly? it's giving main character energy. let's go ✨

🦋 NAME 🦋

eToys — a media-rich model, simulation construction kit and authoring tool 👑

like, a model. a simulation construction kit. an authoring tool. all of it. simultaneously. slay.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

etoys
etoys [ option... ]

that's the whole thing bestie, no cap 🌸

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so Squeak Etoys was inspired by LOGO, PARC-Smalltalk, Hypercard, and starLOGO. iconic lineage fr fr 🔥

it's a media-rich authoring environment with a simple powerful scripted object model</para> for many kinds of objects created by end-users, and it runs on many platforms, and it is free and open source 🫶. the way that it just does all of that at once? obsessed.

what's inside, you ask? literally everything:

  • 2D and 3D graphics 🎨
  • images 🖼️
  • text 📝
  • particles ✨
  • presentations 🎤
  • web-pages 🌐
  • videos 🎬
  • sound and MIDI 🎵
  • etc. 💫

and the cherry on top: 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 🌈. besties mentoring besties, over the actual internet. we love to see it.

and for the lore girlies: the development of Squeak has been done inside the ViewPoint Research Institute for several years. since last years it's being done in collaboration with the OLPC project 💖

🧚 INVOCATION 🧚

etoys has no options or arguments. simply run it. periodt 💅

there are several environment variables that can be set for the Squeak virtual machine tho — take a look at the squeakvm man page for more info 👀

✨ OPTIONS ✨

ngl, there's nothing listed here, and that's on purpose. to know all the options, take a look at the Environment section of the squeakvm man page 🏠 that's where they're all living, iykyk.

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

to know all the environment variables that can affect the squeak image launching, take a look at the Environment section of the squeakvm man page 💜 same place, same energy, go read it.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by José L. Redrejo for the Debian project 🫶 giving back to the community, we stan.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the tea, bestie 💖 this was the eToys(6) page, brought to you by José L. Redrejo Rodríguez, dated April 20, 2008. go build something cute with it. mwah 💋✨

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