When I was going around medians 2.0-Archives to find some interesting stuff to look at, I found a .zip archive named “Scratch Classmate.zip”. I extracted it and ran the executable and the editor looked really cool.

This is very interesting. A version of Scratch 1.x made for Microsoft and designed to work specifically on 800x480 screens… actually, that's the screen resolution on the Classmate PC, which appears to be a laptop design by Intel. And the Wikipedia article discusses its similarity to OLPC, a project Scratch was more famously involved in. Maybe they were related?

rdococ wrote:

This is very interesting. A version of Scratch 1.x made for Microsoft and designed to work specifically on 800x480 screens… actually, that's the screen resolution on the Classmate PC, which appears to be a laptop design by Intel. And the Wikipedia article discusses its similarity to OLPC, a project Scratch was more famously involved in. Maybe they were related?

yeah probably

amazeyourself wrote:

When I was going around medians 2.0-Archives to find some interesting stuff to look at, I found a .zip archive named “Scratch Classmate.zip”. I extracted it and ran the executable and the editor looked really cool. -snip-

The original file was actually found on an official MIT website.

retro_person wrote:

amazeyourself wrote:

When I was going around medians 2.0-Archives to find some interesting stuff to look at, I found a .zip archive named “Scratch Classmate.zip”. I extracted it and ran the executable and the editor looked really cool. -snip-

The original file was actually found on an official MIT website.

i didn't know about that, thanks!