OSLib & rink status?

I’m trying to get back up to speed on the state of libraries etc so that I can build the latest Squeak andScratch systems. Amongst other things that means trying to remember what the hell makefiles mean and what libraries and tools I used to rely upon. So far I see OSLib and rink as crucial items.

OSLib seems to be still the version on sourceforge; has it not been updated and/or moved to anywhere else?
rink seems to be absent from anywhere I can get google to show me. That would be a problem since I relied upon it to allow dynamic loading of libraries. Is it out there anywhere, or was there a replacement for it?

rink is at http://compton.nu/riscos/rink/

rink seems to be absent from anywhere I can get google to show me.

Should you hit a real brick wall (in this instance David provided a link) then http://wayback.archive.org can be handy.

Thanks folks. I certainly didn’t find Tom’s rink pages; nice to see that linkFS is still around too. It’s a little scary to see this stuff is still at the same version as {insert large number} years ago.

I’ve found that using the wayback machine has to be done with caution. Accidental exposure to 90’s era html can be very traumatic… {shudder}

Accidental exposure to 90’s era html can be very traumatic… {shudder}

I pre-date DOS so the new-fangled html stuff isn’t anything other than novel.
CSS is “Clinically Sterile Supplies” – based in a building at the back of the site.
?Aldershot?

Accidental exposure to 90’s era html can be very traumatic…

At least you can read it. This modern CSS stuff looks like a dead boring HTML2.0 layout until you understand that its the CSS that controls what goes where, and decyphering that is just at times sadistic. Not to mention pages that are an unholy mixture of ems, pts, px, and so on.

In my estimation, the only things really bad about ’90s era HTML (asides from the deliberate stuff to try to make it intentionally break on “the other browser”) was:

• Animated GIFs
  A tactful animated logo or two isn’t a bad thing. It helps catch your eye, or just add a little something to a static page. My blog’s “ico” is an animated cartoon-like bunny. Because.
  However, some sites animated everything with as many clashing colours as possible. It looked like it belonged in a White Stripes video.
• Frameset
  I get the logic behind a frame’d site, I understand why it was done. But much like bolting a rocket onto a Reliant Robin, just because it can be done doesn’t mean it should be done. Frames were a horribly ill-conceived way to provide a solution. You can see a point to frames at http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp for the scrolling things (though I think this is done with iframes), however many sites used frames to simply botch annoying logos and animated GIFs to be always-visible.

On the other hand, these days we have interactive content (forums, wikis, etc) and people no longer stuck in the mindset of “Best viewed on MSIE3!”.