Fusion Mac Emulator

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by JimDrew

However, there will be a new version released. I am waiting on Mikej to get a virtual MMU implemented at the moment and then I can release the all new Mac emulation based on FUSION.

That's really great news, Jim! Hope, Mikej doesn't let you wait too long... :-)

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by McTrinsic

It’s nice to know that Fusion is better. If I can’t buy it or obtain it at all it’s useless for anyone who didn’t buy it back then.

In all honesty Jim; that's a sticky point for me also; so I stay using ShapeShifter (as I'm sure many others do as well)...

Would love to try Fusion, but at this current stage, nobody can actually purchase or even try a demo version

Yes, it's great that it has better compatibility than ShapeShifter but... without any means to purchase well

[amigoun]

I do not understand why waiting for FPGAArcade gets better core since most of the users (if not all) would use the Fusion on real Amigas. Its already been years of waiting and it can take many more...

[Hewitson]

I'm guessing that the Fusion code is very tightly connected to the Amiga hardware?

There's not a very good solution for emulating Classic Mac's on PC's these days. Basilisk II doesn't even come close to cutting it.

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

I'm guessing that the Fusion code is very tightly connected to the Amiga hardware?

There's not a very good solution for emulating Classic Mac's on PC's these days. Basilisk II doesn't even come close to cutting it.

There's Fusion PC, and it's free now afaik.

Edit: Have a look here https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/fusion

[Hewitson]

That's a 20 year old DOS application. Not very useful I'm afraid. I'm after a modern emulator that runs on macOS.

[JimDrew]

Originally Posted by amigoun

I do not understand why waiting for FPGAArcade gets better core since most of the users (if not all) would use the Fusion on real Amigas. Its already been years of waiting and it can take many more...

Because this is 2020 and like it or not, FPGA emulations are mainstay now and I had to make special code for handling FPGA based features. I created the new core around these features.

[Pyromania]

@JimDrew

When will the new version be available to buy please?

[AMike]

Originally Posted by JimDrew

"Legally" is certainly questionable. It's made of stolen code. It's the only reason it exists.

Is this your personal opinion or an official judgement?

[Estrayk]

@Jimdrew

We do not want to give the feeling that you feel pressured, but as you can see, there are many of us who are hoping to be able to buy FUSION legally for a long time.
Why don't you put the new version with .iso support on sale now and later, an update with the optimized code for FPGA when the implementation of MMU will be available in the FPGAArcade?

Please don't feel attacked, it's just a suggestion.

[Retro1234]

just use the Fusion Hardfile on ShapeShifter and what are you doing poking around in A-max code anyway.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

I'm guessing that the Fusion code is very tightly connected to the Amiga hardware?

There's not a very good solution for emulating Classic Mac's on PC's these days. Basilisk II doesn't even come close to cutting it.

On PC there is "SheepShaver" that works well and you can emulate MAC-OS9 too.

[JimDrew]

Originally Posted by AMike

Is this your personal opinion or an official judgement?

It's a well documented fact.

[JimDrew]

Originally Posted by Estrayk

@Jimdrew

We do not want to give the feeling that you feel pressured, but as you can see, there are many of us who are hoping to be able to buy FUSION legally for a long time.
Why don't you put the new version with .iso support on sale now and later, an update with the optimized code for FPGA when the implementation of MMU will be available in the FPGAArcade?

Please don't feel attacked, it's just a suggestion.

No worries. I appreciate the feedback. However, the main core is all new, now using a modular system so I can support various FPGA and other add-ons with hooks in the future. That has to be tested with at least a few of these hooks before I release it because I don't want to spend a bunch of time fixing issues later on.

This is not my day job, so my time is very limited at the moment.

[unit01]

Hi Everyone,

I'm interested in using Fusion to scan film with a Leafscan Ls-35, Ls-45 under Fusion with an Adobe Plugin.

Does Fusion work with SCSI Scanners?

I have a A2000 with :-

Impact A3001

https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/b...3001_6_big.jpg 25Mhz 68030

A4008

https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/b...t.aspx?id=1196


Kickstart 3.1 Roms if that matters.

Regards
John

[JimDrew]

Yes, FUSION works with all known SCSI devices. I actually used several flatbed scanners, including a large bed HP scanner.

[torsti76]

Hi @JimDrew,

I've got another question. I recently built this Zorro III card https://gitlab.com/MHeinrichs/Zorro-LAN-IDE

It has some very nice features including a Fast Ethernet port that really deserves the name. The driver (and its source code) are to be found in the driverupdate branch of the git repository mentioned above in the directory 'driver/baxnet'.

While working nicely with the different TCP/IP stacks on the Amiga, the driver isn't recognised by FUSION if I put it in the respective settings field.

On the Mac side's TCP/IP control panel I then get the message that 'Ethernet' is no longer available and therefore removed from the selection.
This is regardless of whether the driver is already used on the Amiga side or not.
I'm using MacOS 8.1 and the Opentransport 1.3.1 update.

I know that people are experiencing similar issues with, e.g., the popular X-Surf cards. However, I've been able to use a Realtek 8139 card in my Mediator successfully with FUSION as well.as being able to setup nullsana.device (from Aminet) on the Mac side

Is there anything that can be done about the situation? Does the driver have to implement a certain feature that's often left out? Or is the Roadshow SDK used in compiling the newer drivers problematic?

Thank you very much and best regards,
Torsten

[drHirudo]

Originally Posted by torsti76

Hi @JimDrew,
Is there anything that can be done about the situation? Does the driver have to implement a certain feature that's often left out? Or is the Roadshow SDK used in compiling the newer drivers problematic?

Thank you very much and best regards,
Torsten

Have you tried virtual Ethernet through Vlink?
http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/vlink

I remember using it back in my 68K Amiga days for connecting from Mac side and it worked fine with MiAmi.

[torsti76]

Originally Posted by drHirudo

Have you tried virtual Ethernet through Vlink?
http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/vlink

I remember using it back in my 68K Amiga days for connecting from Mac side and it worked fine with MiAmi.

Well, vlink is basically the same as nullsana and that I already tried. To get this working, I'd have to understand how routing and forwarding works in roadshow, which is difficult because of the lacking documentation in this regard.

I'd like to keep Roadshow, though, because of its performance...

[JimDrew]

Originally Posted by torsti76

While working nicely with the different TCP/IP stacks on the Amiga, the driver isn't recognized by FUSION if I put it in the respective settings field.

Can you explain what you mean by this? Does FUSION give you an error message or something? FUSION just does a standard device driver Open() with the unit passed in. If the device driver fails to open then it would report an error (fail to start the emulation).