A2 (nee Bluebottle) is the successor to Oberon, but remains
compatible in the sense that you can run the classic Oberon
System 3 as an application within Bluebottle.
(1) unpack the zip file
(2) Open a2\WinAos\Aos.EXE
Note that Aos.EXE will run full screen. There's no obvious way
to minimize or hide it, but you can Ctrl-TAB back to another
program.
The system log is displayed by default near the upper left
corner of the screen. You'll want to close this as Oberon and
Aos can not both be managing it at the same time.
(3) Close the System log by clicking the red button in the
upper right corner of the System log window.
You'll see a palette of buttons in the lower left corner
of the screen. We'll be using that to start Oberon.
There are two ways to start the hosted Oberon: full screen
or within an Aos window. Since we're here for Oberon, we'll
start it full screen.
(4) Click "Deveop" in the top row of buttons.
(5) Click "Oberon FullScreen" which is revealed as the
left-most bottom-most button.
To exit Oberon click "Quit" in Popups.Tool and choose "Shutdown".
To exit Aos click "System" and then "Shutdown" on the button
palette in the bottom left of the screen.
http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/download.html
(My Eyes! The goggles do nothing!)
You could probably boot the ISO image in a virtual machine (VMWare or such).
There's a version of Bluebottle that runs as an application on Windows. Here (A2.r4701.zip):
http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/OCP/WinAos
A few things to note:
(1) unpack the zip file (2) Open a2\WinAos\Aos.EXE
Note that Aos.EXE will run full screen. There's no obvious way to minimize or hide it, but you can Ctrl-TAB back to another program.
The system log is displayed by default near the upper left corner of the screen. You'll want to close this as Oberon and Aos can not both be managing it at the same time.
(3) Close the System log by clicking the red button in the upper right corner of the System log window.
You'll see a palette of buttons in the lower left corner of the screen. We'll be using that to start Oberon.
There are two ways to start the hosted Oberon: full screen or within an Aos window. Since we're here for Oberon, we'll start it full screen.
(4) Click "Deveop" in the top row of buttons. (5) Click "Oberon FullScreen" which is revealed as the left-most bottom-most button.
To exit Oberon click "Quit" in Popups.Tool and choose "Shutdown".
To exit Aos click "System" and then "Shutdown" on the button palette in the bottom left of the screen.
Happy exploring!