What's with Fusion?

[sentient06]

Are there any news about Fusion 3 in the past few years?

First, I am surprised it is not an open-source emulator (or is it?). I used a few years ago and back then it looked quite fast and stable and the "company" that "offers" it doesn't seem to have a nice "market share" today anyway. Are there any clues out there on how it works? Does it patch the ROM like Basilisk II or does it emulate the hardware like Mini vMac?

[ClockWise]

Fusion PC was acquired by Emulators, Inc. some years ago. There was one update, and that was it.

I think Darek said something about wanting to open source it as part of a programming tutorial, but it never happened. He should probably release the source of all his emulators, but one gets the impression that he sees them as a sort of "legacy," and is therefore very protective of them.

[24bit]

Fusion is the best Mac II emulators methinks. Not counting MiniVMacII (work in progress)
Even some "hopeless" old games do run well with FusionPC.
The SCSI Manager in Fusion does see scanner, HDD and other stuff.
The floppy is nicely implemented, checks for disks automatically and auto mounts them.
Its the only emulator that will format PC 720k and can write Mac files on them, that I´m aware of.

Brillant work, but I´m clueless how it was done. Seems it was not too extensively documented.
The host systems for FusionPC 3.0 are becoming rare meanwhile.

[adespoton]

Doesn't FusionPC run like a champ inside DOSBox? That means that it'll run on any platform DOSBox runs on (which is most general purpose platforms, including iOS and Android).

[24bit]

Sure DOSBox is an option, no idea about routing hardware ports from the host to Fusion.
I could not make the DOSBox/Fusion combo run on my Android 4.1.1. so far.

MiniVMac II for Android runs pretty good.
Wish we had a BasiliskII port for Android too.

[Cat_7]

You have not seen this?

http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewto ... f=6&t=7035

Best,
Cat_7