Having said that, a number of observations remain: Speed comparison Executor versus FUSION The graph on the right clearly shows that the CPU emulation of Executor is superior, caused by Executor's slightly more advanced dynamically compiling 68LC040 emulator.īut the graph below shows that overall (weighted) performance of these two excellent products is in the same class.įrom my first impressions I conclude that FUSION is an excellent combination of the emulation speed of Executor and the full hardware emulation attempt of vMac. I ran TechTool to find out what hardware/software emulation is implemented, click here for the results.Ī screendump of FUSION running System 7.5 (enhanced with Aaron). In general FUSION is an impressive product! As a measure of speed I installed the Grolier Encyclopedia which worked well. I successfully installed some software from my CD-ROM and floppy. After a restart, FUSION booted fine from the harddisk. After that I copied the System Folder from my Disk Tools floppy to the freshly formatted HD. I inserted my System 7.5 Disk Tools diskette in my A: drive, started FUSION and it worked first time!įirst thing System 7.5 asked me was whether I wanted to format the HD I created.

of RAM (the non-demo version has no limitation). Using the supplied SETUP program I created a harddisk image file and configured FUSION to use my CD-ROM. Since I don't run PC-Exchange on the Powerbook or a tool like MacDisk on my PC, I had to use Executor (sic!) for the actual transfer. ROM of my thrusty old Powerbook 165 to a Macintosh floppy. I downloaded the FUSION demo and used the therein supplied utility ROMUTIL to dump the 1 Mb. Click here for more on US copyright law (especially sections 107 and 117 of US Code 17 seem applicable). The same technique is used by vMac and the same provisions as to the legality of making that file remain for instance the ROM does contain the string '(c) 1990-1992 Apple Computer, Inc.'. The following reflects my first impressions.įUSION requires no Macintosh hardware instead it relies on the user to make sure a copy of a legally obtained ROM exists as a file in the FUSION directory (i.e. This product has now been released for the PC. For the Commodore Amiga an emulator called FUSION by Microcode Solutions has been available for years. (Which means that notebook users as myself can't use such a solution). A product called Gemulator requires the physical presence of a small board containing original Macintosh ROMs. First impressions.Īpart from Executor by ARDI there hasn't been a software-only commercial Macintosh emulator on the market (as far as I know). FUSION Macintosh Emulation Macintosh emulation.

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