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Sweet16 2.1.1 now available
- Subject: Sweet16 2.1.1 now available
- From: Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:54:33 -0700 (PDT)
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I’ve just released Sweet16 2.1.1, a nice little update that fixes a
few bugs, and includes a couple of changes that reduce CPU overhead on
the host Macintosh substantially. Here’s an overview of what’s
changed:
* The main event loop now does sleeps instead of busy-loops,
dramatically reducing wasted CPU cycles; Sweet16 plays much more
nicely with other running processes now.
* Rewrote the video timing code to be more precise.
* Removed some unnecessary mutual exclusion code in the networking
support, speeding up networking substantially.
* The Create Disk Image panel now lets you choose a disk image
format on Mac OS X 10.4; previously this popup window didn’t do
anything prior to Mac OS X 10.5.
* The SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime is now weak-linked, so that
Sweet16 really does now run on PowerPC G3 systems (albeit without
debugger support).
* Creating disk images of even 1 MB sizes (5 MB, 10 MB, 32 MB, 100
MB, for example) now goes much, much faster, since instead of writing
out 512 bytes at a time, these are written 1 MB at a time. A future
update will provide a similar performance improvement for floppy size
image creation.
* Clicks in the video window are no longer ignored when the System
Information window is open.
* Enabled some new optimizations that noticeably improves
performance on PowerPC systems.
* Removed some unnecessary debug output.
* The Create Disk Image panel now lets you create DiskCopy 4.2
images at 1.4 MB.
* The Create Disk Image panel’s size popup no longer wanders out
of view when you resize the panel.
* Memory no longer gets leaked when controls in the Create Disk
Image and Create Emupack file panels are clicked on.
* Reworded the alert that appears when trying to mount a CD-ROM
when no CD-ROM is found, since the same alert is used both when there
is no CD-ROM media available as well as when there is no CD-ROM drive
available.
http://www.sheppyware.net/software-mac/sweet16/index.html
Enjoy!
Sheppy