VirtualAcorn (+2.6)
14/9/05 10:28AM |
Just to correct a small point, we may well have neglected to tell Drobe about the change in VAT status - but since that happened in January I didn't really feel it was necessary to include it in this press release. So to clarify the price reductions on VRPC-Adjust have nothing to do with VAT whatsover. |
govind  (+2.6)
14/9/05 12:54PM |
Thanks for bringing attention to the update. Earlier this week I asked on the VA forums for a 1680x1050 monitor definition file and Aaron posted it within a couple of hours. VRPC-Adjust now looks brilliant on my widescreen laptop 
Is there any further info on what fixes were made between versions 1.2 and 1.3? I applied the update but notice that two little bugs concerning adding HostFS mounts (under Tools->Options) have still to be fixed: (a) not being able to add mounts with apostrophes in the path name (e.g. d:Govind's Documents) and (b) changes to an existing mount's options not being saved (e.g. ticking bootable/show dos extensions) - you have to remove the mount and add it again from scratch.
Otherwise this app is fantastic and one that I use every day. |
govind
14/9/05 12:56PM |
That should read d:\Govind's Documents above, i.e. with a backslash character inserted |
justice (+2.4)
14/9/05 2:34PM |
Would have been nice if you had actually told your customers, since the prices didn't alter after you de-registered |
VirtualAcorn (+3.5)
14/9/05 4:08PM |
In reply to justice:
The price of VRPC-Adjust fell on the day we de-registered. |
nijinsky (+1.5)
15/9/05 10:27AM |
THisn is good news apart from one thing. You can only run the software on one computer. I won't spend £357 for my three machines Any chance of a 1 user license where you can use this on all your machines but with omnly one user.
I need to go down the virtual route because I need a laptop.
Cheers
Bob |
Grek1
15/9/05 10:43AM |
In reply to nijinsky:
You have 3 laptops? |
VinceH
15/9/05 12:00PM |
In reply to Grek:
Nijinsky mentioned three machines and the need to use /a/ laptop - that doesn't necessarily mean three laptops.
That said, I have two laptops, so I don't think three is too amazing.
And I'm disappointed that along with two, too and three I couldn't find an excuse to include to and free in that same sentence. |
nijinsky
15/9/05 1:01PM |
IN reply to Grek1
Nahh Only one laptop. I have a desktop in work used for imaging so need a high quality CRT (21") I have a desktop ap home and a wee TFT for space convenience but need a desktop for speed (image files are 300-500Mb) yes 300-500 megabytes.
I need a laptop for traveling (at present in Cardiff hospital working). unfortunately I need windows for work although I'm moving to Linux/Solaris on one machine soon (or getting another) hopwever, I digress.
Cheers
Bob |
Stewy (+2.5)
15/9/05 2:04PM |
In reply to VinceH:
Try this:
That said, I have two laptops to free up one when I want to, so I don't think three is too amazing.
Any good? 
PS VirtualRiscPC-SE and Virtual Adjust are both stunning products. If you've got a Windows laptop (or Windows and no room for a RISC OS machine), then treat yourself. Go on, you know you want two. Sorry, want to. |
arenaman
17/9/05 5:30PM |
Anybody running VirtualAcorn on a slightly lesser desktop? I have an Athloin 1800+ with 700-odd MB of RAM. Should it be enough to run with no problems? |
EasyKees
17/9/05 6:03PM |
In reply to arenaman:
I think on a decent Athlon 1800+ you can expect it runs as fast as a RPC with StrongARM
I use VA-RPC first on a P3 733Mhz with 832Mb and it runs ok.
(CPU-speed reported it as a StrongARM at 156 Mhz )
I have it now on a AMD3000+ and I'm very happy with it |
arenaman
18/9/05 3:23PM |
Being in Greece means I may have to reassess my views on VirtualAcorn if I want to use RISC OS at all. So good, it sounds like it could work well on my system. Thanks for the reply! |
VirtualAcorn
18/9/05 5:30PM |
In reply to arenaman:
An Athlon 1800+ should be fine, and 700Mb of RAM is also fine. I would recommend just checking the memory you have on your graphics card, make sure it's got at least 16Mb of memory. |
simo
19/9/05 4:30PM |
I've used the development (JIT) version of RedSquirrel on various machines from 500-2500MHz and found that about 1.5GHz is StrongARM speed.
All I want for Xmas is for Graham to release a Linux version so I can try it on my new 3GHz P4HT/1Gb as my Windows dev copy has expired, and I don't use the Windows box much these days. |
JGZimmerle
19/9/05 5:04PM |
Can VA make use of multiple CPUs? I now have 4x Opteron System with 6GB of RAM, running WindowsXP x64 Edition. |
simo
19/9/05 5:16PM |
Not sure if it's actually optimised for SMP, but the OS usually makes a good job of balancing it out, on a dual PII-400/Win2K Pro it never used more than about 55% per CPU.
You could try using the new VMWare 5.5 beta with all it's SMP/64-Bit goodness, and running VA under that..... |
justice
22/9/05 2:38PM |
In reply to VirtualAcorn:
Sorry, that didn't come across as I intended, I'll rephrase it.
It would have been nice to have had an announcement in January, complementing the original one when the prices went up when you registered for VAT. |
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VirtualAcorn have lowered the price of VirtualRiscPC-Adjust to 119 quid, which excludes postage. VA, run by 
