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 both RISC OS and Windows/Mac OS X and faliure to follow the details exactly could cause your VirtualAcorn to cease functioning correctly.

VirtualAcorn for Windows

Technical information about VirtualAcorn products

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

Running VirtualAcorn on Windows Vista or Windows 7

• Running VirtualAcorn on Windows Vista
• Running VirtualAcorn on Windows 7

Installing VirtualAcorn on specific types of hardware

• Installing VirtualRPC on an Asus Eee (or similar)

Discs and drives on VirtualAcorn

• Using an external USB floppy drive
• Problems with floppy discs using an Internal drive
• Altering the capacity of ADFS hard disc images
• Problems reading CDs
• Changing which physical CD drive VirtualAcorn uses
• Renaming HostFS::HardDisc4
• Using ShareFS to add a Virtual Floppy Drive

Windows issues

• Windows Drivers
• Power Management issues

Running a Windows VirtualAcorn on an Intel Mac

• Using VirtualAcorn with BootCamp or Parallels

Running VirtualAcorn on VMWare

• Running VirtualAcorn on VMWare (3rd party aricle)

Time and date problems

• VirtualAcorn displaying the wrong time

Keyboard and Mouse

• Stuttering keyboard or mouse
• Problems with mouse buttons

Software problems

• Problems running software on VirtualAcorn

VirtualAcorn and RISCOS Select

• Big screen modes with Select 3
• Access Voliation error on installing RISC OS 6

Printing from VirtualAcorn

• Printing problems
• Printing directly from single tasking BASIC programs
• Faxing directly from VirtualAcorn