[Oberon] [allowed] Oberon system 3 runs on real Raspberry Pi hardware

[glardner at iol.ie]

Hi Rochus,

I am curious to try Oberon System 3 on a Raspberry Pi. It's a long, long
time since I worked on any serious programming, longest of all in any of
Wirth's languages. But Pascal (on a DECSystem 20) and later Turbo Pascal
were my first programming languages, closely followed by Modula-2.

I flashed an SD card for my RPi 3 Model B V1.2. It boots in about 3 sec but
it does not recognise the Raspberry Pi keyboard (USB connected) or mouse
(wireless to the USB hub in the keyboard). What type of keyboards and mice
are most likely to work with this port of Oberon System 3?

By the way, thank you very much for your efforts in porting this to RPi
hardware.

Kind regards,

Gerard Lardner


-----Original Message-----
From: Oberon <oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch> On Behalf Of Rochus Keller
Sent: Friday 10 April 2026 14:36
To: oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch
Subject: [allowed] [Oberon] Oberon system 3 runs on real Raspberry Pi
hardware

Hello everyone

In case you want to try the Oberon system on a real Raspberry Pi, here is an
image ready to flash on an SD card with instructions:
https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3Native/releases/tag/2026-04-10


I did all debugging and testing on a Raspberry Pi model 3b (which is still
regularly available for purchase), but the image should also run on the Pi
Zero 2.

Best regards
Rochus Keller
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