VirtualAcorn Technical support:
Knowledge base articles

The VirtualAcorn Knowledge Base contains a series of technical articles about VirtualAcorn products. Please note that using any of the information contained in these articles is done so entirely at the users own risk. These articles will assume a reasonably level of technical expertise in Mac OS X and faliure to follow the details exactly could cause your VirtualAcorn to cease functioning correctly.

VirtualAcorn for Mac OS X

Technical information about VirtualAcorn products

• Description of the VirtualAcorn configuration files
• Recovering a "lost" unlock code

MacOS X Lion installation problems

• VirtualRPC installers report an error and then close

Discs and drives on VirtualAcorn

• Using an external USB floppy drive
• Altering the capacity of ADFS hard disc images
• Renaming HostFS::HardDisc4
• Using ShareFS to add a Virtual Floppy Drive

Keyboard and Mouse

• RISC OS Function Keys
• Centre (MENU) mouse clicks not working with the Apple Magic Mouse

Software problems

• Problems running software on VirtualAcorn

Printing problems

• Print jobs don't appear from the printer

Running a Windows VirtualAcorn on an Intel Mac

• Using VirtualAcorn with BootCamp or Parallels