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As of today's date the new version of VirtualA5000 is shipping to customers. Existing customers can upgrade their copies of VirtualA5000 to the new version by downloading upgrades from our website. The new "Laptop Friendly" version of VirtualA5000 includes support for integrated graphics cards as found on many laptops and some cheaper desktop computers. Previous versions of VirtualA5000 required the computer to have a powerful graphics card in order for VirtualA5000 to perform well. The new version has a software scaling mode that allows the PCs processor to perform the screen update, this offers a very large performance benefit on almost all machines. The hardware scaling model from previous versions can still be selected using the VirtualA5000 options window.

In addition version 1.3 includes a scrolling desktop feature, this allows large RISC OS desktops to be displayed on smaller resolution displays. As the user moves the mouse pointer to the edges of the screen the whole RISC OS desktop will move to track the mouse. In addition we have made changes to the sound system to improve its performance on high speed processors. The new version of VirtualA5000 also includes full long file name display in the RISC OS filer, although we have always supported long file names older versions of VirtualA5000 have truncated the name in the filer window. The new VirtualA5000 also has a smoother mouse pointer than older versions and supports some new display modes including 1400x520 (For Dell Inspirons and some other laptops) and 1600x600 for desktop machines. Version 1.3 also ships with the latest version of the ArcDisc Acorn format disc reader.

Existing users can obtain the version 1.3 upgrades from our downloads site.