Gerard Putter has released version 5.1 of Virtual ][, his excellent 8-bit Apple II emulator for Mac OS X. The new version is a Universal Binary that runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macintosh computers.In addition, the following changes have been made:
- ImageWriter II printer emulation has been added.
- A mouse card issue has been fixed; the program Blazing Paddles now works.
- Disk drive timing has been improved, which allows the game Wasteland to run from copy-protected NIB images.
- The Mockingboard sound card emulation has been improved so that the game SkyFox now detects and uses it.
- A preference has been added that lets you skip the “save machine state” dialog when closing a virtual machine.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in wrong game paddle values when running at high speeds.
- Fixed a potential crash in the Inspector when analyzing some types of copy-protected disks.
- The “soft caps lock” feature doesn’t affect pasted text anymore — now it only affects typed characters, the way it should.
- Solved a sound handling issue that could lead to a deadlock when resetting the virtual machine.
- The “relative mouse mode” setting is now stored when saving a configuration file.