Copy protected software

Some applications have copy protection and need to write some special information to the drive they are being installed to, or the drive you boot from. These applications are unable to write this information to HostFS discs.

So you will need to install them to an ADFS hard disc image. To enable the VirtualAcorn ADFS hard disc image simply double click on !Boot, and go to the discs/drives icon. Set the number of IDE hard discs to 1. Then click on Set. RISC OS will warn you that changing the number of discs is dangerous, but don't worry, just click on Continue. After a few seconds a new IDEDisc4 disk icon will appear on the iconbar. Click on this to open it, you will find three items, !BootADFS, !BootHostFS and ReadME. The Readme file tells you what to do next.

One final point. You may find that the ADFS disc image is not large enough for your purposes (the default size is 200Mb). This support article explains how to make the drive larger.

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