I did a little digging on one of my favorite emulation sites tonight, and decided to see if any progress had been made on Macintosh emulators for the PC. To my surprise, there has.
I found a link to <a href="http://www.emulators.com/download.htm">Emulators.com</a>, with versions of FusionPC (older product, now free) and SoftMac (newer product, 30-day trial activation) available for download. Each product supports up to Mac OS 8.1, and just about any pre-PowerMac (i.e. 68040-or-older) Mac ROM images. Apparently, these do not require repartitioning of the resident PC's hard drive -- they create virtual drive images that are simply hundreds-of-megabytes files on the C: drive, and as long as you don't muck around with them within Windows, the two OSes should be able to coexist.
Has anyone here ever experimented with either of these programs? I'm intrigued, and may start tinkering with FUSION when I get back from a weekend trip (that, and I need to obtain a MacOS 8.1 disc, or use the 7.5.5 and BIOS from my IIfx).
03-13-2003, 09:20 PM
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