32-bit acorn software: other • Re: ArcArc.nl giving errors?

Just a quick answer, free time is still limited...

And if yes, where could I actually buy your software, as you appear to have it hidden very well from a Google search?

I would be really interested how you tried to search, because basically every combination of cd writing, cdburn, cdvdburn and RISC OS leads to one of my web sites.

Use on emulators

While CDVDBurn 3 works fine on RPCEmu and VirtualRPC, due to their limitations on the emulation of USB and S-ATA devices attached to the Host OS, CDVDBurn 3 has no access to CD/DVD/BD drives connected to the Windows or Linux host machine.

You can still use the ISO9660/Joliet image creation part of CDVDBurn 3 however to create true RISC OS ISO images that you can subsequently write with any PC software to disc. The Disc Extractor feature can also be used to access ISO9660/Joliet images.

And given that, I might actually buy your software to create CD ROMs for my A310 using my Linux desktop PC (just honestly have to decide for myself if my rather limited expected use will warrant the 60 euro price)

Just for creating CD images from an emulator, I myself would consider CDVDBurn 3 overpriced, so I do not recommend to go that way

Incidentially, a project of mine (in the making for the last 8 years...) is coming near release, and will provide a much cheaper way to produce "proper" RISC OS CDs from HostFS content (VRPC, RPCEmu, Arculator, Red Squirrel), and much faster, because it runs from the host OS side.

(By the way: my A310 is upgraded to ARM3, 4 megabyte and RiscOS 3.10. And as indicated, has an external Cumana SLCD CD Rom drive with SLCD podule).

I have to really check that on physical hardware, but in theory, CDVDBurn 3 should be able to run on that hardware, and as CDVDBurn 3 has a cool feature called "Disc Extractor", you could use this instead of dreaded old unreliable CDFS. Although you will still use CDFSDriver and CDFSSoftSLCD in your setup.

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Have fun
hubersn

Statistics: Posted by hubersn — Wed May 07, 2025 2:40 pm

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