[Virtualacorn-list] VA & CDs on 64 bit machine

[Chris Newman]

In article
<534163532.442964.1447076945668.JavaMail.open-xchange at ptangptang.store>,
   Steffen Huber <steffen at huber-net.de> wrote:
> > Chris Newman <cvjazz at waitrose.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am looking to purchase VirtualRPC Adjust SA (4.39) but I see from
> > Aaron's products page at   http://www.virtualacorn.co.uk/product.htm 
> > that there seems to be a caveat that CDs can only be read on 32 bit
> > Widows machine's but that caveat doesn't apply to data DVDs.
> > 
> > I have a 64 bit m/c so I can I load software from the original CDs?

> If those CDs are "normal" CDs just mount the Windows CD drive as a HostFS
> drive in VirtualAcorn.

> If those CDs are Acorn CDFS specific CDs (i.e. needs the CDFS filetype
> extensions), you could extract the CD image via Windows and then use
> CDFaker to mount it as a CDFS drive inside VirtualAcorn.

> http://legacy.huber-net.de/cdfaker.html

Thanks,Steffen. That helps.

-- 
Chris