This afternoon I checked in a hundred or so changes to SVN to remove OS-9 and Metrowerk's CodeWarrior support from the Mac OS VM source tree. Driving this is the fact that the number of os-9 machines is decreasing, morphic performance on that era of machine lags, and Universal intel support requires 10.4 headers and usage of APIs that don't work pre 10.4.

This is at the 3.8.10b15 VM level.

Therefore I did some house cleaning, and burned quite a bit of code in the process, well SVN won't forget it so you'll always be able to build.

I'll note the current versions of 3.8.10.x VM or earlier that are non- intel should work on 10.2.x era machines forward, I had that question from Impara over the weekend.

I'll note the last working os-9 VM is bundled with the 3.8.9b7 Mac Carbon VM.

Currently I have an intel VM mostly working, need more testers. This does NOT include any of the plugins, those I have not compiled yet. Did I say I need more testers? Currently one is not a large enough sample.

Going forward.

I compiled a Mpeg3Plugin using the latest source tree from sourceforge for libmpeg3-1.6. Lots more work yet to reintegrate some of our custom changes for Squeak BitMaps. This version of the source code supports > 2GB files btw. However in doing this we asked the question should we move towards FFMPEG instead? Thoughts from the community are welcome, so is coding help.

Sophie has mostly moved towards using QuickTime btw, if anyone wants to do a morphic versus tweak interface to our quicktime support api they should step forward.

Lastly I've build a Browser plugin both for Sophie, and for SqueakLand based on the 3.8.10b15 code base.

Oh and one more thing, I've a os-x disk image I put together for Andreas a year or more back that contains images, jitters, source code and build directories etc for all the VM I've worked with for the last 10 years, from v1.1 to 3.7.3b4 Anyone wanting a copy should let me know, it's rather large at 1.83GB, perhaps it could be hosted on the squeak foundation server somewhere?

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