Overview

This page provides an overview of the products that we have available.

There are two levels of performance, Standard (SE) and StrongARM (SA). Then there are two different versions of RISC OS, 4.02 and 4.39 (also called RISC OS Adjust). All products come with one years (from date of despatch from our offices) technical support via phone/e-mail. They also include lifetime technical support via the Support section of the VirtualAcorn website and the VirtualAcorn Forums.

If you would like to see what our customers have said about our products click here. You can find comments from magazine reviews here.

For information on upgrading existing VirtualAcorn products please click here.

Compatible Operating Systems

Windows PC versions of our products operate on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

Mac OS X versions operate on G5 and Intel Macs running OS X 10.4.0 (Tiger) to 10.14.x (Mohave). Not currently suitable for 64 bit versions of Mac OS X 10.15 (Catalina) or later.

Product Range

To get more information about each product click on the link at the top of each column.

	VirtualRPC-SE	VirtualRPC-SA	VirtualRPC AdjustSA	VirtualRPC AdjustSA Mac
RISC OS 4.02	Yes	Yes
RISC OS 4.39			Yes	Yes
Arm 710 Core	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Arm 7500 Core		Yes	Yes	Yes
StrongArm Core		Yes	Yes	Yes
Maximum RAM for RISC OS	128Mb	128Mb	256Mb	256Mb
Included software bundle	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
HostFS2 filing system		Yes	Yes	Yes
Read Acorn floppies*	Yes* (Win 32bit)	Yes* (Win 32bit)	Yes* (Win 32bit)	DOS only
Read CDs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Read data DVDs			Yes	Yes
ADFS disc image support	Yes	Yes	Yes
Network and Internet	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows clipboard support		Yes	Yes
Higher speed screen redraw		Yes	Yes	Yes
Pop up drive manager		Yes	Yes	Yes
Printing from RISC OS	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Automode widescreen support		Yes	Yes	Yes
Launch files to Windows		Yes	Yes
Price	£49 (+p&p)	£59 (+p&p)	£79 (+p&p)	£79 (+p&p)
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* RISC OS (Acorn) format floppy discs can only be read using a standard internal floppy disc drive. The RISC OS floppy disc driver is only suitable for 32bit versions of Windows. External USB floppy drives can only read DOS format floppies and cannot read Acorn format floppy discs.

Product details

VirtualRPC-SE is our standard level product and includes RISC OS 4 supplied by RISCOS Ltd. VirtualRPC-SE runs software intended for Acorn RISC PC, Acorn A7000, Acorn A7000+ and other computers fitted with RISC OS 3.5 or later. VirtualRPC-SE can also run the vast majority of software intended for older Acorn machines.

VirtualRPC-SA is our professional level RISC OS 4 product. It includes RISC OS 4 supplied by RISCOS Ltd and comes with ARM710, ARM7500 and StrongARM class software processors. VirtualRPC-SA runs software intended for Acorn RISC PC, Acorn A7000, Acorn A7000+ and other computers fitted with RISC OS 3.5 or later. VirtualRPC-SA can also run the vast majority of software intended for older Acorn machines.

VirtualRPC-Adjust is our professional level RISC OS 4.39 product. It includes RISC OS 4.39 (RISC OS Adjust) supplied by RISCOS Ltd and comes with ARM710, ARM7500 and StrongARM class software processors. VirtualRPC-Adjust runs software intended for Acorn RISC PC, Acorn A7000, Acorn A7000+ and other computers fitted with RISC OS 3.5 or later. VirtualRPC-Adjust can also run the vast majority of software intended for older Acorn machines. RISC OS Adjust includes the very latest version of RISC OS and is recommended for power users and software developers.

VirtualRPC-Adjust is our professional level RISC OS 4.39 product. It includes RISC OS 4.39 (RISC OS Adjust) supplied by RISCOS Ltd and comes with ARM710, ARM7500 and StrongARM class software processors. VirtualRPC-Adjust runs software intended for Acorn RISC PC, Acorn A7000, Acorn A7000+ and other computers fitted with RISC OS 3.5 or later. VirtualRPC-Adjust can also run the vast majority of software intended for older Acorn machines. RISC OS Adjust includes the very latest version of RISC OS and is recommended for power users and software developers.