John,

I noticed a minor cosmetic issue: a couple of times when I've launched  
the new VM, the process name via Activity Monitor has shown up as  
(null).  When I quit and restart the VM, the process name displays as  
expected.

Thanks,
Phil

On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:03 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> I've push the latest cocoa based 32/64bit macintel/powerpc VM   5.3b1
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> Various users pointed out that option-arrow key did not work, plus  
> there was a crash due to a draw locking issue.
>
> I spent a few hours looking into the complexity of keyboard  
> management in Cocoa and left-overs from NeXTStep.
> I likely still have more hours of testing for extended keyboards but  
> it should now work for the enter/return, esc, delete, page up/down,  
> and arrows keys with
> the various combinations of shift, function, control, option, and  
> apple.
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> The crash was related to a race condition in the os-x drawing logic.  
> I refactored it to a more simplistic code base shared between the  
> iPhone and OSX.
> As a bonus the non-complex code is actually faster than the Carbon  
> Drawing logic found in the 3.x/4.x series of VMs, and much faster  
> than the previous complex/broken logic.
>
> Look for the  folder experimental/64bits in the regular places found  
> via http://smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
> or
> ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/64bit/32bitImage*64bitVM/
> or
> http://homepage.mac.com/johnmci/FileSharing.html  click to  
> experimental,  64bits , 32bitImage*64bitVM
>
> file name:
> Squeak 64-32 5.3b1.app.zip
>
> This *beta* VM runs in 32 or 64 bit mode on macIntel, and 32bit mode  
> on powerpc to support Squeak 32bit images.
> Includes the freetype plugin, and requires  os-x 10.5 or higher.
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