Release Notes:
GameBox is a Steam-like game library for early Mac OS Systems (Mac OS 8, 9, OSX) built with features to make gaming on vintage computers as easy and seamless as possible.

Version 1.1.0 adds many new features including library/profile syncing to the cloud, OSX support plus much more, and addresses a major performance bug that affected the initial release.

YouTuber Classic Mac Gaming identified a performance issue that was causing GameBox to use a huge amount of CPU time, which resulted in FPS drops and poor gameplay. This was a silly yet simple fix, In version 1.0.0 I had mistakenly set GameBox's tracking timer to poll every 5ms instead of every 5s. This was causing GameBox to use up to 60% of the CPU time during game play. Now that this has been fixed, GameBox barely uses 1% CPU time during gameplay, and in-game performance is no longer affected.

The picture below shows the difference in CPU usage from launching a game to the in-game state.

What's new in v1.1.0?

New Features

• Library and Profile cloud syncing

• Lobby and Chat rooms for organising multiplayer games and general discussion

• Added support for fetching and submitting game metadata

• Mac OS X Universal Binary build

• Game Pack auto-installations for installing game bundles

• German localised build

• Support for game descriptions and ratings

• User interface overhaul

• Support for renaming categories

• Game tracking data persistence when games are removed from the library

• Functionality to stop tracking for "stuck" games

• Advanced game editing interfaces

• Automatic profile backups

• Keyboard navigation inside games list

• Expanded documentation

Fixes

• Fixed a major performance issue during gameplay

• Fixed a bug where renaming a game resulted in the old name appearing in the input box

• Fixed UTF8 character support

• Fixed unmounting of discs even when virtual discs haven't been set

• Renaming games no longer alters the filenames

• Improved and optimised game tracking logic

• Fixed a bug preventing profile backups

• Fixed a bug that disconnected from the game library after creating additional profiles

• Fixed multiple bugs causing application crashes