I've posted a macintosh carbon VM 4.2.1Beta1U to the usual places  
found via

... BitBlt  fixes to enable beautiful fonts via Squeak on the macintosh...

Great! :D

Wasn't one of these fixes to make the "properAlphaForBlackText" setting unnecessary, or do I remember the discussion incorrectly?

Setting it to false, I get black text rendering like in the noProperAlpha.png. 

The second pass seem to still run on black text, but with an improper colorMap, f.ex. you get coloured tints on your bolded fonts depending on what other colormaps have been used.

After making sure to nil the colorMap in installStrikeFont, I get black font rendering like in nilledColormap.png. Seems to me there's a bug in fonts used in MultiNewParagraph when lines start with a tab, but I can't figure out how to correct it... Juan? ;)

Cheers,

Henry