[Oberon] Oberon System 4 on 64-bit operating system?

[Richard Hable]

Hi Bernhard,

Thank you for your response—I see you have been the maintainer of this
Oberon System version! Yes, I’m trying to use this latest version of
Oberon V4 for Linux from SourceForge.

I have already executed

dpkg --add-architecture i386

and it finishes immediately without error message—which in Unix probably
means that it worked correctly.
I’ve also installed some additional libraries as described in

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12956/how-do-i-run-32-bit-programs-on-a-64-bit-debian-ubuntu/47003#47003

However, when trying to execute the “oberon” executable (with the
correct +x flags), I still get the error message:

…oberon: No such file or directory

It seems that Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS) still does not want to execute
i386 executables.

I then tried to rebuild the oberon executable and the wrapper library as
x64 executables with

make clean
make all

This worked correctly, except for some warnings of the compiler. Then I
could also execute the “oberon” executable—but it immediately failed with

6858 Segmentation Fault $OBROOT/oberon


Concerning the other responses to my post:

Thank you very much for pointing me to other Oberon System
implementations! I’ve tried a version with the RISC emulator, and it
worked fine.

However, I seems that I really need Oberon System 4–the system similar
to the initial Oberon System, but with an Oberon-2 compiler and an
editor with text elements support. The other systems use a different
text format, so I can not open and compile my old Oberon-2 sources.

Best wishes
Richard


On 25-03-31 14:42, Bernhard Treutwein wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> I guess you mean Oberon V4 for Linux (as available from SF here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/oberon/).
> 
> As far as I remember, you have to add the architecture i386 via
> 
>       dpkg --add-architecture i386
> 
> then it should work without any problems.
> 
> regards
> -- 
>   Bernhard
> 
> On 3/30/25 15:28, Richard Hable wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I’d like to use Oberon System 4 in a presentation; however, I can’t find
>> a version which works on a current 64-bit operating system.
>>
>> As I workaround, I’ve booted an old 32-bit Linux version from a USB
>> stick, and then started Oberon V4 for GNU_Linux, version 1.7.02, from
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/oberon/files/Oberon%20V4%20for%20GNU_Linux/
>>
>> Does anyone know a better way?
>>
>> Thanks for any hints
>> Richard
>>