DMOZ (Open Directory) Shuts Down

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DMOZ (Open Directory) Shuts Down

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Today I learned that DMOZ shut down back in March:

http://searchengineland.com/rip-dmoz-op ... ing-270291
http://www.dmoz.org/

I remember adding all of the Macintosh emulation sites there back in 1999/2000. I also remember signing up to edit some of the movie categories and how I had to deal with the massive spam that Rotten Tomatoes was submitting when it first came into existence.

I found this site in the mirror:

http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/fusion.html

A classic account of early emulation!
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A blast from the past about Fusion, nice finding!
Fusion was a great Mac emulator, too bad it has never been ported to a modern OS.
Do you have a link to the original Fusion.exe too maybe?
There is nothing wrong with 3.0, but I would like to see how it compares with Darek Mihocka´s release.

Screenshot from Fusion 3.0 / MacOS 8 on W98SE, P4, NV4000 AGP:

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Fusion 3.0 with 7.6 is even somewhat faster, as usual. :)
Sorry for the off topic posting, I just could not resit.
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I've probably got the old versions in my archive. I'll check when I get home from my current travels, though that won't be 'till the end of next month.

The demo of 1.2 is still here:

http://web.archive.org/web/199902021935 ... loads.html

And possibly here:

http://web.archive.org/web/199902031920 ... ombin.html
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Sad to lose that bit of history; I remember signing up around then to add links to all the classic Mac software. Most of those links would be dead now.
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Thanks Clockwise, no hurry.
I´ll take a look at the 1.2 demo, full versions of 1.0 and 1.2 would be great, if someone has them stored locally.
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I'll ask Jim "Jim" Watters if he has any in the meantime.
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