@TjLaZer
I would love to get Fusion Forty Plug'N Go ROMs V3.4. Could I get a set of 4 chips burned? I would be willing to help pay for the burn run and EPROM chips. I would Pmail you, but I don't know what Pmail is? perhaps Phonemail, or Pegasus mail (look at
www.pmail.com)?
@Everyone
As for the copyright issues, I would be happy to pay RCS or whoever else owns these ROMs, at reasonable price (10 or 20 dollars US) after all this is 15 year old hardware. I have been looking for these ROMs to no avail since about 2001 when I bought an A2000 with a Fusion Forty in it from an e-bay auction.
For those worried about the copyrights check out an article:
Pete Loshin, "Abandonware: Welcome to the Netherworld of Gaming Software Limbo" Computer Power User Magazine p 81 Vol. 6 issue 4, April 2006.
In this article, Mr. Loshin is speaking about old roms for MAME and MESS that publishers abandon. I will quote from the article, "Unlike free/open-source software, abandonware has no legal standing; it's a matter of economics that games publishers abandon their older games rather than maintain a backlist of titles like book publishers do. When a game's owner does assert copyright and request an old game be taken down (referring to any website), the gamers must comply."
I would definitely put Fusion 40 ROMs in the abandonware category.
As for the Fusion Forty itself, the V 3.4 Plug’N Go ROMs will allow the Fusion 40 to boot amiga 3.1 os roms , but will these rom’s allow the use of AmigaOS 3.5 or 3.9? I remember there is some issue with the 68040.library in AmigaOS 3.1 and the Fusion Forty.
Does anyone have experience getting 3.5 or 3.9 working with the Fusion Forty? I am interested as I have an A2000 with Fusion Forty with 32 megs of ram, a Picasso II+ and an hardcard.
