Sweet16 2.2 released

[Sheppy <the.sheppy@gmail.com>]

I've just posted Sweet16 2.2, the latest version of my Apple IIgs
emulator for Mac OS X. This is a fairly minor update, but does have a
couple of helpful improvements, listed below.

One of the key changes is that by default, Sweet16 now limits the
emulated IIgs speed to 40 MHz. Previously, the default was to go as
fast as possible. This resulted in using 100% of at least one CPU
core, which would cause battery drain and temperature issues,
especially on laptops. Although users always had the option to turn on
speed control and throttle the speed, this wasn't obvious, so to help
out new users, I changed the default option.

If you're already using Sweet16, your current setting won't change
when you update to version 2.2. If you're a current user and are
having this problem, you can enable speed control by opening the
preferences, going to the CPU tab, and turning on the "Speed control"
option. Then select a speed to throttle your emulated IIgs to.

Since modern Macs can typically blaze along at over 100 MHz emulated
IIgs speed if unthrottled, even setting it to 40 MHz should improve
the situation dramatically.

1. Sweet16 now defaults to having speed control enabled, with the GS
set to a 40 MHz emulated speed. This prevents laptops from getting hot
while running Sweet16. You can easily turn off speed control to let
your GS fly, using the preferences’ CPU options panel.

2. You can now mount ProDOS-order (.po) disk images that are not
floppy disk sizes.

3. When paused, Sweet16 no longer continues to use lots of your Mac’s
processor capacity.

4. Creating 1.4 MB disks using the Create Disk Image feature now
creates disk images that are actually 1.4 MB, rather than 1.6 MB.

Download here: http://bit.ly/aRebqX

Sheppy