Are Jim Drew or Joe Fenton still in business?

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Are Jim Drew or Joe Fenton still in business?

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...and if so, would they care to go through their archives to donate a decent manual for FusionPC?
For me, Fusion was the closest approach to emulate a 68k Mac on a Windy box and FusionPC can still be useful on modern hosts with the help of DOSBox.
I found some fragments with the Waybackmachine: http://www.mediafire.com/?7aqap3b4fom1ska
But there sure must have been a manual for Fusion covering its features in detail.
I wonder if anybody has it and is willing to share?
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Does this help?

http://web.archive.org/web/200104291952 ... /frame.htm

That's the most documentation that Microcode ever put online, I think.

I highly suspect that Jim Drew doesn't really care enough to release any documentation at this point, but I have an email address from circa 2003, if you'd like to try it. I can PM you.

Joe Fenton, on the other hand, is still rather active. He actually ported Basilisk II to the PSP a few years ago. I believe this is him:

http://forums.exophase.com/members/chilly-willy.670/

He might be able to provide some documentation and whatnot.

It might be worth contacting Darek Mihocka, who of course owns Fusion now:

http://emulators.com/about.htm#Contact

Just don't tell him you came from this site. He hates us.
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Thanks for the pointers, ClockWise!
I was under the impession, that Fusion was licenced to Emulators Inc. rather than sold.
Anyway, you will know better. As all apps are available for free these days, its a question of marginal interest.
Who has kept and updated documentation? Emulators Inc. is not likely to have them, as there is nothing on their site.
Microcode offered a lot online. If there was a printed manual, it has not been saved as pdf maybe. :(

Would be cool to know how Mac serial devices had been used with FusionPC.
Further, I have no idea whether its possible to route a USB dongle´s serial port through DOSBox to Fusion on a OSX host.
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I asked Jim Watters on facebook (he was the first person to buy FUSION PC!), and he said regarding the manual:

"Yes Mike. It came as a CD insert with my Fusion PC 2.0 floppy disk. Mainly 20 or so pages from the old website: http://web.archive.org/web/199904280104 ... usion.html"

And yeah, Darek owns FUSION PC completely. Not licensed or anything... he owns it. I think Microcode also sold iFUSION to Blittersoft or someone. Jim Drew got into the paintball business after that.
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Did you have any luck contacting Jim, Joe or Darek?
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