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System Requirements
Product Features
- Windows 2000 compatible
- Full customisable Virtual CDs
- New CD read-out algorithms
- Improved data compression
- New advanced user interface
- CDDB support
- Hot key to insert Virtual CDs
- Advanced autostart function and command line control
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
CDs were a brilliant invention. Packing a mammoth 650Mb of data onto a slim disc that weighs next to nothing, they have made it simple for us to load our favourite albums, games and computer programs quickly onto our PCs. Brilliant, but not brilliant enough. As more and more of us take our computing on the move, the transporting of even a handful of CDs can become irksome. Add the fact that a spinning CD is a drain on the precious battery life of your laptop, then the hassle of ejecting and reinserting CDs on trains and aeroplanes, and an even more compact medium starts to look appealing. Enter the third version of Microtest's Virtual CD software. It throws the CDs away altogether, extracting the information from the discs, and then compressing it on your hard disk by up to 95 per cent.
Once Virtual CD has created its version of your CD, be it a copy of Microsoft Office or the new Radiohead album, an icon pops up in the program's browser on your computer desktop, just like any program icon in fact. And just like a program icon, you click... and the virtual CD runs like the real thing.
An obvious bonus for those who spend a lot of time travelling is that they can take their entire music CD collection on the road with them on their laptop, and not fill up their luggage or hard disk in the process.
Even on your desktop PC, packages which require the insertion of multiple CDs will be made much less tedious. And the fact that Virtual CD runs six times faster than a standard 32speed CD-ROM drive, should ensure fewer dead-stops during graphics-heavy games, or indeed on any programs you previously ran direct from the CD. --John Rennie
Manufacturer's Description
Virtual CD 3 allows Windows users to run multimedia and other CD-ROM applications directly off hard disks, without needing to constantly access the CD-ROM.
Virtual CD 3 is a CD Emulator. It allows you to create an image of a CD-ROM drive, into which you are able to copy a CD-ROM.
Once a CD-ROM is copied onto your PC, you are able to "load" it into one of the virtual drives and run that application directly from the hard drive, without the need for the original CD.
Virtual CD 3 is able to read both music and data tracks, with the added option of being able to further compress data to save valuable hard drive space
Running at 6x faster than x32 CD-ROM Drives, up to 24 virtual drives can be created with an unlimited number of virtual CDs
You can even access multiple CD-ROM applications simultaneously, so now you can play your music CD while you play a game.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This is a great program for all of those people who have cd's all over the place but never where they should be. You'll need a fairly hefty hard drive if you want to shove a lot of games onto your hard disk becasuse you've got a double whammy situation. First you copy the CD to the hard disk which could take up to 700MB and then you have to install it which could take as much again. Get yourself a 30 gig plus drive and that's not too bad but do bear it in mind. For sheer convenience it's worth the money, no more inserting multiple disks, just click on the icon and off you go. Overall a great piece of software, it's very user friendly, I'd recomend it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
An excellent little utility. Installs without any fuss and does exactly what it claims to do - not much more you can ask really. I find that with my CDs so much more easily available, things like dictionaries, encyclopaedias and so on get much more used and so the Virtual CD helps you get much more use value from them. Highly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I was going to buy this until I found out there is a whole suite of free virtual drive software that does this job better...
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