I've posted a macintosh VM (3.8.6b5) that includes the buffered display  
improvements, changes from Andreas to view certain GC events/features  
and my
changes from last fall to collect GC statistics & alter the VM to bias  
for growth versus compaction. Plus changes to sound input/output.

I've stuck them on my idisk
http://homepage.mac.com/johnmci/FileSharing.html

See the experimental directory and the squeakGarbage sub-directory.
or see the following ftp directory for zip files.

ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeakGarbage/
ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/

I have not build an os-9 version yet.

3.8.6b5 uses the Unix CoreAudio sound plugin which apparently allows  
you greater flexibility in recording rates.
Folks should confirm recording and sound playback works as in the past  
since we have dropped the ancient sound input
and carbon based double buffering for sound playback.

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