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2012, August 22 - 10:37pm

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FusionPC in Virtual Box anybody?

It has been shown that emulating a MacII with Fusion3.0 can be done rather easily making use of DOSBox. I was curious whether VirtualBox in OSX could do better, monitor settings, CD-ROM support and such.
However I´m kind of stuck with audio and other issues. Sound is played, but kind of weird and scattered.
- Does someone know how to make it work properly?
- How to add CD-ROM drivers?
- What to do with the sluggish mouse?

This is the virtual disk with Fusion30, some German Mac OS installed and a SoundBlaster driver for DOS. http://www.mediafire.com/?vm3m2j5b22zqi9a
To use the image, create a new DOS machine with the above volume. As DOS is running navigate to the Fusion30 directory, type "setup" and press enter.
Folks with a non German keyboard may want to remove KEYB GR from the autoexec.bat.

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2012, August 24 - 1:02am

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I would've liked to have helped out with this one. But I'm afraid I'm not set up to do so, as I don't have a virtual machine setup, nor do I have an Intel Mac.

2012, August 24 - 11:05am

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Thanks for your contribution anyway.
Actually I´m running Snow Leopard with my wife´s old E5700 PC, not really an Intel Mac here either.
Oracle´s Virtual Box is available for free, but its rather a long shot, I have to admit.

2012, August 24 - 8:59pm

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I think its about time I helped you out 24bit! My Mac book already has Virtualbox and several operating systems on it. I'll post help shortly.

2012, August 24 - 9:25pm

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Would be interesting to see FusionPC running with Virtual Box.
No hurry, its only a puzzle I would like to see solved.
Should I create a US OS image for FusionPC to make things more usable?

2012, August 24 - 9:48pm

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Please do. I'm not accustomed to this version of dos. Thanks!

2012, August 24 - 9:51pm

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Could you help by explaining what Fusion 3 is? I'm loading some CD Drivers int DOS right now. FUSION 3 emulates a Mac ll? It's been a while since I used DOS.

2014, June 4 - 3:20am

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Me too. I'm trying to access some password protected .ghost files I found on a decommissioned on-call Laptop Restore DVD.

2012, August 24 - 11:01pm

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In short, you might get the idea here: http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/fusion_setup_guide
FusionPC is similar to BasiliskII, somehow. Several machine types can be emulated depending on the ROM used. The interesting part seems to me allocating real hardware, at least with DOS. The hard part will be routing devices from the emulated Mac through DOS/VirtualBox to OSX.
Thinking of audio CDs playing in the emulated Mac...

2012, August 25 - 1:20am

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Ah, I see. Interesting. I might use this myself. So you have Fusion already installed? How to load?

2012, August 25 - 1:23am

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The VHD you provided unfortunately is missing some key files. What version of DOS was it? It refused to accept edit autoexec.bat as a command, which is where you enable CDROM Support( after installing drivers.)

2012, August 25 - 5:04pm

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I´ll check the upload and report back.
The original was taken from here: http://osvirtual.net/en/msdos622/

If you want to try the file I uploaded:
- unzip the virtual image and place it in a new folder on your disk
- name the folder with something comprehensive like VB
- download, expand and run Virtual Box
- select "new machine" from the VM menu
- name it to something with DOS in the title
- set RAM to 64 MB
- select the disk image in the VB folder
Run your new virtual machine. Note that PATH is not set to C:\DOS, so KEYB GR is not executed and you´ll get an error message instead.

Edit: A silly typo in autoexec.bat messing the path command does not let you use external DOS commands.
However you can navigate to C:\DOS and edit the autoexec.bat from there, giving the path to the file.
PATH must be set to C:\DOS, thats all.

To run the emulator, navigate to the fusion30 directory and type "setup" for the config pane or "fusion" for the emulator itself.

2012, August 25 - 2:13pm

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NVM 24bit. I made my own VHD and installed DOS 6.22. I have the CDROM Driver loaded and it's working.

2012, August 25 - 8:29pm

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Done. I created my own VHD with DOS 6.22 and Fusion 3. It currently boots OS 8.1 with a Quadra 700 ROM. I added CDROM support and official Microsoft mouse drivers. Ready to go! Shall I post the VHD?

2012, August 25 - 8:45pm

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Yeah - post it, please.
What about the Soundblaster driver?
Does your setup play CD-ROMs already?

2012, August 25 - 10:41pm

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I'm going to run it in Parelells to see if the sound is better there.

2012, August 26 - 1:55pm

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I changed for MS Mouse 8.20 too and thats a bit better.
Things are a bit snappier as two CPUs are assigned to the VM.
Startup sound and System sounds in 7.5 do work - kind of, but are played 7 or 8 times instaead of once. Game sounds (Shanghai_II Dragon´s Eye) do not play at all.

DOSBox does better, though I could not use my CD-ROM up to now with:

mount d /dev/disk3 -t cdrom

Media in the optical are recognized with FusionPC, but the emulated System asks to initialize them.