I've posted a macintosh carbon VM 4.2.1Beta1U to the usual places found via http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html If there are no immediate problems then people should consider using this VM for their one-click offerings and ensuring this is the current default macintosh VM on Squeak.org. Early adopters should email the list right away in case of problems. As a reminder the 4.x series of macintosh VM have clean 32bit address space support, IPV6, full UTF-8 for file names and clipboard, Closure support when activated by the image, and BitBlt fixes to enable beautiful fonts via Squeak on the macintosh, plus the VM plugins folder has all the latest plugins. If you *must* run a 3.8.x flavor of VM (why?) then you should use the latest fixed version which is 3.8.21b1 3.8.20 & 3.8.19 both have flaws causing image save failures, and 3.8.17 or earlier are not 32bit clean hence more probable to crash on you. A warning about BitBltPlugin.bundle distributed as "BitBltPlugin.v1.0.0b1.FreeTypePlus.bundle.zip" This was an override to provide some better font behaviour rendering that was done in early 2007. If you have this on your computer in a Plugins folder or think you need it, beware it will override the NEW fixed bitblt and you wonder why your fonts don't render correctly in the last font efforts for Squeak. Therefore you should delete all/any copies of BitBltPlugin.bundle Changes: There are some fixes to enable this VM to run a 64bit based Image, this is still a 32bit VM btw, and now the VM comes with a macintosh QuickLook plugin that renders the thumbnail out of newer eToys projects. Plus it has the Aug fixes for rendering antialiased StrikeFonts. Other fixes detailed below: 4.2.1b1 We update our VM to VMMaker-dtl.135 Fixes Reference Mantis 7260: some Float comparison primitives don't handle Nan correctly Enable VM to run 64 bit images as a 32 bit VM Reference Mantis 5238: Integer bug on 64bit image/32bit VM Reference Mantis 7376: Bug in BitBlt (rgbMul sets alpha to 0) Reference Mantis 7377: VM Crashes when setting port on destroyed socket (Win32) Reference Mantis 7384: GeniePlugin does not compile on closure- enabled images Added eToys suggestion for a read only resource directory when sandboxed. Info.plist gets a UTI and the SqueakResourceDirectory path Via Bert Freudenberg added QuickLook plugin for rendering eToys project image Thumbnail -- = = = ======================================================================== John M. McIntosh <johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com> Twitter: squeaker68882 Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com = = = ========================================================================