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Offline JimDrew

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Re: Whatever happened to Microcode Solutions
« on: September 15, 2013, 05:36:16 PM »
Just saw this thread....

To clarify some things now that NDAs are expired.

PowerLogix, was the name of the company that came to us with a 604e PCI plug-in card for the PC.  They wanted to make our PPC Mac emulation for the PC.  Although I showed pictures of the prototype cards, it never materialized due to issues with their company.  The card did work, but did have some limiting factors - like the PCI bridge was our only access to the Mac emulation (which ran on the memory on the PCI card).  So, Nubus video, serial, timers, etc. all had to come from the PC side.  This made the emulation slower than a real Mac, even though it was a speedy card.  There was some talk of a redesign, but that never happened and the project died.

As for iFUSION, shortly after we released it we sold it to Blittersoft who carried on with the development.  People were angry at me about selling it, but that's business.  We had a much more lucrative deal with making FUSION-PC, so it worked out perfectly for me.