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Product Description


4.4BSD Lite - Walnut Creek CDROM - UNIX-Compatible OS - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
4.4BSD-Lite is source code ONLY. If you love to read good code and tinker with your system, this is the disc for you. This CDROM contains software developed by the University of California Berkeley, and its contributors. This CDROM includes source code and manual pages for the C library, about 95% of the utilities distributed in 4.4BSD, and all but a few files from kernel. The system is almost entirely ANSI C and IEEE POSIX 1003.1 and 1003.2 standards compliant. The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution adds support for several new architectures including: Sparcstations 1 and 2, MIPS based Decstation 3100, 5000, and Sony NEWS, 68000 based HP-9000/300 and Omron Luna, and 386 based PC's. Both the HP300 and SPARC ports can run native operating system binaries via emulation. Note: It is not possible to compile or run 4.4BSD-Lite without a pre-existing system that is already insyalled and running.

AfroRoman For Windows - Linguist's Software, Inc., Payne Loving Trust - Windows 3.1/95/98/NT - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
Professional-quality, hinted, scalable fonts in both TrueType and Type-1 formats: AfroRoman, in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. Features over 50 overstrike accents and diacritical mark keys each having automatic overstriking for fast typing over any letter or symbol and in any combination. AfroRoman contains the characters for the following African languages: Acholi, Afrikaans, Bantu, Bobangi, Buluba-Lulua, Chikarange. Ewe. Fulani-Adamawa, Fulani (Fulfulde), Ga, Hausa, Igbo (Ibo), Kanuri, Kongo, Lu-Gande, Masai, Mashona (Chiswina), Mole, Namaquah, Nyika, Serere, Shuna, Swahili, Tebele, Temne, Twi, Umbundu, Wolof, Wolof of Senegal, Vai, Yao, Yoruba, and Zulu-Kafir. Also covers these European languages: Estonian, French, German, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovenian, and Swedish; plus also Hawaiian. Includes User's Manual, keyboard layout chart, ANSI Table and keycap sticker sheet. Keyboard Switcher provides four characters per key in Windows, and alternate keyboard layouts.

ASC Arabic Font Pack 1 For Arabic Windows - Glyph Systems - Windows 3.1x - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
Eight Arabic True Type fonts for Arabic Windows.

BSDisk - InfoMagic, Inc. and DiscNet, Inc. - UNIX-Compatible OS - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
UN*X implementations for 386/486/Pentium PC's, as well as many other architectures. Complete sources & binaries! NetBSD-1.1 & FreeBSD-2.1. Supplied in ready to use formats with installation scripts included. Full TCP/IP networking facilities, including client and server NFS. Includes XFree86-3.1.2 (X-Windows) withsupport for most video cards. Many additional packages are provided (in source and binary form): lisp, emacs, mail programs, games, etc.

CyrWin English Version - Inzer Corporation - Windows - 3.5" Disks - Retail Box - Image -
CyrWin is a package for working with Russian and multilingual documents in Windows. There are three versions of CyrWin: CyrWin 4.05 - cyrillisation and multilanguage support for Windows 3.1x, CyrWin 95/98 - cyrillisation and multilanguage support for Windows 95 and 98, CyrWin NT 3.13 - cyrillisation and multilanguage support for Windows NT 3.50, 3.51. CyrWin places at your disposal: a set of TrueType fonts in the UNICODE coding to create and design Russian documents in Windows; a set of system fonts to work with Russian programs in Windows; simultaneous use of a random set of keyboard layouts; a clear and compact indicator of a current layout; simple switching between layouts with the mouse or keyboard; you may choose a layout from the list using the mouse, switch layouts cyclically by pressing the switch key or select a desired layout by pressing the shortcut; wide choice of the Layout Switch keys: Ctrl, Shift+Shift, Ctrl+Shift, Right Ctrl, Left Ctrl, Right Shift, Left Shift; tools for changing the existing layouts and creating new ones; you may create layouts dedicated to input any language characters, decorative elements, mathematical and printing symbols; combinations with the right Alt key (key+right Alt and key+Shift+right Alt) used to enter additional characters at the keyboard; tools that provide for sorting and translation between DOS<=>Windows accepted in the Russian language. There are some variations in functions of different versions of CyrWin that can be found in their manuals.

Dr Solomon's Antivirus Toolkit - Priority Data Group - Platform in Description - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
Complete virus protection: prevention, detection and repair. Long term track record in finding known and unknown viruses. Extremely fast scanning speed using 32-bit code. Scan speeds of up to 7Mb per second have been recorded. Scans compressed files (PKZip, LZH, ARJ, ARC, PKLite, LZExe, ICE, DIET, Cryptcom & MS Compress). Includes Advanced Heuristics Analysis to detect unknown viruses without false alarms (including Macro viruses). Continuous, transparent, background protection, checks every file and disk accessed in a split second. The Generic Decryption Engine (GDE) identifies the most complex, encrypted and polymorphic viruses - including the Dark Avenger Mutation Engine (MtE), SMEG and the Trident Polymorphic Engine (TPE). On-line Virus Encyclopedia provides detailed virus information. Works with DOS, Windows 3.1x, 95, NT Workstation and OS/2.

DriveCopy V3.0 - PowerQuest - Platform in Description - CD-ROM & 3.5" Disks - Retail Box - -
The easiest way to copy your old drive to your new drive. Safe and easy data migration. Save money, time and frustration. Copies multiple partitions and expands them proportionally on your new disk, features a simple user interface and uses proven, reliable technology from the world's leading disk-partitioning software PartitionMagic. It allows copy speeds up to 200MB per minute. Now copies drives larger than 8.4GB. Works with DOS, Linux, Windows 95/98, NT 4.0 Workstation or 2000 Professional (Linux and 16-bit operating systems require DOS).

FreeBSD 2.2.5 (November 1997) - Walnut Creek CDROM - UNIX-Compatible OS - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
FreeBSD 2.2.5 is a full, professional quality, UNIX-compatible operating system on 4 CD-ROMs. Features: simple CD-ROM installation with EI Torrito direct-boot support; easy switching between multiple operating systems; rock-stable performance; complete development environment; integrated Web servers and browsers. FreeBSD is based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD, developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors.The system comes with complete source code and features a tightly integrated build system which lets you recompile the entire source tree with one command. If you want stable networking or a powerful development environment, FreeBSD is the Operating System for you.

FreeBSD 2.2.6 (April 1998) - Walnut Creek CDROM - UNIX-Compatible OS - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
FreeBSD 2.2.6 is a full, professional quality, UNIX-compatible operating system on 4 CD-ROMs. Features: simple CD-ROM installation with support for booting direct from CD; easy switching between multiple operating systems; rock-stable performance; complete development environment; integrated Web servers and browsers. FreeBSD is based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD, developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors.The system comes with complete source code and features a tightly integrated build system which lets you recompile the entire source tree with one command. If you want stable networking or a powerful development environment, FreeBSD is the Operating System for you.

FreeBSD 2.2.7 (August 1998) - Walnut Creek CDROM - UNIX-Compatible OS - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
FreeBSD 2.2.7 is a full, professional quality, UNIX-compatible operating system on 4 CD-ROMs. Features: simple CD-ROM installation with support for booting direct from CD; boot manager for switching between multiple operating systems; rock-stable performance; complete development environment; integrated Web servers and browsers. FreeBSD is based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD, developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors.The system comes with complete source code and features a tightly integrated build system which lets you recompile the entire source tree with one command. If you want stable networking or a powerful development environment, FreeBSD is the Operating System for you.

FreeBSD 4.0 (March 2000) - BSD, Inc. - UNIX-Compatible OS - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
FreeBSD 4.0 is a full, professional quality, UNIX-compatible operating system on 4 CD-ROMs with many new features. FreeBSD comes standard with: over 3,000 third party software packages, everything from Emacs to TeX is included; all standard TCP/IP networking services; wide selection of web servers, browsers, and email software; full source for the entire system with an integrated build environment; X Windows System (XFree86 3.3.6). FreeBSD is based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD, developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and its contributors.

FreeBSD Toolkit (May 1999) - Walnut Creek CDROM - UNIX-Compatible OS - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
The FreeBSD Toolkit contains a robust collection of snapshots, packages, documentation, and distribution sources. This 6 disc set is full of software that will enrich your FreeBSD experience and save you countless hours of searching and downloading. Included on these CD-ROMs: the latest binary "snapshot" releases of FreeBSD 2.2, 3.1 and 4.0 branches; latest packages and distfiles released after 2.2.8-Release and 3.1-Release; "live" copy of the FreeBSD Project's CVS repository, completely unpacked and available for use directly off the CD-ROM; the www.freebsd.org web site; an installable 4.0-Current snapshot for the DEC Alpha architecture; the most up-to-date patched version of XFree86 3.3.3.1, with fresh support for 3DLabs cards. Are you looking for the latest FreeBSD updates to the 2.2.8, 3.0 or 3.1 branches? Are you looking for the most up-to-date 3rd party software available? Then look no further than this toolkit!

Gamma UniType International V1.71 - Gamma Productions, Inc. - Windows - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
UniType is much more than a keyboard driver and fonts. UniType is a transparent localisation system for Windows applications. In UniType, when you select a new language, you not only change languages, but at the same time: 1) Change the keyboard layout to the layout preferred for each language. 2) Change the appropriate UniType language font. 3) And, activate the appropriate spell checking and hyphenation dictionaries and other features particular to the selected language. Unitype is designed to handle multiple languages. Each character of every language has a unique identity. For each character, UniType knows the character's direction, whether characters change shape according to their position in a word, or which correctly positioned diacritic or vowel to use depending on the height, width and other properties of the base character. UniType properly manages each language as if UniType were dedicated to that language alone. Languages supported by UniType are: Afrikaans, ALA-LC1, ALA-LC2, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Avar, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belorussian, Bengali, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Chuvash, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch (Belgium), Dutch (Holland), English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, Flemish, French (Belgium), French (Canada), French (France), French (Switzerland), Frissian, Gaelic (Ireland), Gaelic (Scottland), German (Austria), German (Germany), Germany (Switzerland), Greek, Greek (Ancient), Greenlandic, Gujarati, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Inuktitut, IPA, Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), Kazakh, Kirgiz, Komi (Permyak), Komi (Zyrian), Ladino, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Marathi, Mari (Hill), Mari (Meadow), Mongolian, Mordvin (Erzya), Mordvin (Moksha), Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Ossetian (Digor), Ossetian (Iron), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Samoan, Sanskrit, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Spanish ( Latin America), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tatar, Thai, Tongan, Transliteration All-In-1, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wingdings, Yiddish.

LaserAmharic For Windows - Linguist's Software - Windows 3.1x/95 - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
Professional-quality, hinted, TrueType and Type 1 fonts: AmharicPC and AmharicLSX in plaain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. Together, these fonts contain the entire Ge'ez script for Amharic and Tigrinya characters. Simple phonetic input (using deadkey entry) for all characters. Includes User's Manual, keyboard layout chart, ANSI Table and keycap sticker sheet. Keyboard Switcher provides four characters per key in Windows, and alternate keyboard layouts.

LaserGeorgian For Windows - Linguist's Software, Payne Loving Trust - Windows 3.1/95/98/NT - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
Two professional-quality, hinted, scalable Type-1 and TrueType Georgian fonts: TbilisiText and TbilisiCaps. Keyboard Switcher provides two keyboard input methods: 1) Traditional Georgian layout, or 2) Logical lauout keyed to English keyboard. You can easily mix English and Georgian text. Includes User's Manual, keyboard layout chart, ANSI Table and keycap sticker sheet. Keyboard Switcher provides four characters per key in Windows, and alternate keyboard layouts.

LaserGujarati For Windows - Linguist's Software, Payne Loving Trust - Windows 3.1x/95 - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
Professional-quality, hinted Gujarati font in both TrueType and Type 1 formats in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. Includes a transliterated keyboard layout with all Gujarati characters. Includes User's Manual, keyboard layout chart, ANSI Table and keycap sticker sheet. Keyboard Switcher provides four characters per key in Windows, and alternate keyboard layouts.

LaserSerbo-Croatian For Windows - Linguist's Software, Payne Loving Trust - Windows 3.1x/95 - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
Two professional-quality, hinted, scalable fonts in both TrueType and Type 1 formats in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles: SerbianLSSans (in Cyrillic script) and CroatianLSSans (in Latin script). LaserSerbo-Croatian For Windows contains all the basic Serbo-Croatian characters, arranged so you can type in Serbian or Croatian and then change alphabets just by selecting the text and changing the font from the font menu. The characters in the Serbian font are arranged phonetically to the English keyboard layout as far as possible with the extra characters occupying the 3-0 keys. The characters in the Croatian font are arranged like the English keyboard with the extra characters for Croatian occupying the 3-0 keys. Includes User's Manual, keyboard layout chart, ANSI Table and keycap sticker sheet. Keyboard Switcher provides four characters per key in Windows, and alternate keyboard layouts.

LaserTamil For Windows - Linguist's Software, Payne Loving Trust - Windows 3.1x/95 - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
A professional-quality, hinted, scalable Times-style (serif) font in both TrueType and Type-1 formats in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. TamilLS contains all the characters and diacritics needed to type Tamil. Includes a transliterated keyboard layout with all Gujarati characters. Includes User's Manual, keyboard layout chart, ANSI Table and keycap sticker sheet. Keyboard Switcher provides four characters per key in Windows, and alternate keyboard layouts.

LaserThai Sukanya For Windows - Linguist's Software, Payne Loving Trust - Windows 3.1x/95 - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
A professional-quality, hinted typefaces in both TrueType and Type-1 formats in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. Keyboard arranged according to the Thai standard GatManee layout, similar to a Thai typewriter, that works with US keyboard. Automatic overstriking characters allow vowels and tones to overstrike preceding consonant. Deadkeys handle combinations of two vowels and tones on a single consonant. Word wrap and other software format features are preserved. Choose invisible (non-printing) space between words for proper word wrap, or alternate font with visible, braking space, to show spaces between words. Includes User's Manual, keyboard layout chart, ANSI Table and keycap sticker sheet. Keyboard Switcher provides four characters per key in Windows, and alternate keyboard layouts.

LaserTurkmen For Windows - Linguist's Software, Payne Loving Trust - Windows 3.1x/95 - 3.5" Disks - Retail Package - -
Professional-quality, hinted TurkmenLS fonts in both TrueType and Type 1 formats in plain, bold, italic, and bold-italic styles. The TurkmenLS fonts contain all the characters for Turkmen, English, Turkish, and the obsolete forms of the special Turkmen characters. Keyboard Switcher Windows utility with a Turkmen keyboard layout makes typing the Turkmen characters easy. The characters in LaserTurkmen are adjusted to match the Cyrillic characters in Linguist's Software's TransCyrillic fonts. Type the Turkmen text in Latin characters, select the text, and choose a TransCyrillic font from the font menu. The text will convert character-for-character to the Cyrillic alphabet. Special diphthongs have been added to the TurkmenLS fonts to aid in this transfer. LaserTurkmen For Windows and LaserTurkmen For Macintosh are completely ASCII compatible. Files can be transferred from one platform to the other in either RTF or text-only format. Includes a transliterated keyboard layout with all Gujarati characters. Includes User's Manual, keyboard layout chart, ANSI Table and keycap sticker sheet. Keyboard Switcher provides four characters per key in Windows, and alternate keyboard layouts.

MagnaRAM 2 - Quarterdeck - Windows 3.1x/95 - 3.5" Disks - Retail Box - -
Powerful, configurable, 32-bit memory multiplier by Quarterdeck. Boost system performance, run multiple applications, faster task switching. Cost a lot less than the physical RAM.

MagnaRAM 2 - EDGE - Quarterdeck - Windows 3.1x/95 - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
Powerful, configurable, 32-bit memory multiplier by Quarterdeck. Boost system performance, run multiple applications, faster task switching. Cost a lot less than the physical RAM.

McAfee Office - McAfee Software (div.of Network Associates, Inc.) - Windows 95/98/Me - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
The all-an-one solution to protect, secure, optimise and repair your PC. Package includes: Virus Scan - virus protection, McAfee Firewall - your defense against hacker attacks, Internet GuardDog - stops online security threats, McAfee Maintenance Utilities - fix and protect from crashes, PGP Personal Privacy - strong data encryption, UnInstaller - safely removes unwanted programs. Easy to use from one streamlined central interface.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition - Microsoft - Windows 95/NT - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
This package contains everything you need to quickly and easily learn Windows-based programming with Visual Basic. With its intelligent, easy-to-use development environment, you can start creating powerful applications right away. The package contains: Self-paced CD-ROM tutorial, Integrated Form Editor, Microsoft ActiveX Controls, Application and setup wizard, Template Gallery, MSDN Library, Sample application directory.

Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition - Microsoft - Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000 - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
Development system for Windows and the Web. The package contains: Native code compiler, Support for Microsoft Internet Information Server applications, Professional Visual Database Tools, Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) for Visual Studio, Enhancent connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases, ADO (ActiveX Data Objects), Data Environment, Custom data source creation, Drag-and-drop report creation, Drag-and-drop form creation - all in a complete development environment.

MOO-TIFF - Lasermoon Ltd., InfoMagic - UNIX-Compatible OS - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
MOO-TIFF CD-ROM - graphical user interface for PC's running FreeBSD. This CD contains a port of OSF/Motif 2.0 for Intel-based personal computer running FreeBSD. Includes complete runtime and development environment, providing all the necessary files you need to run mwm and develop 100% OSF/Motif-compatible applications. The following distributions are included: mwm (the Window Manager); Shared Library; Static Libraries (libXm, libMrm and lib Uil); Header & Include Files; UIL Compiler; Complete on-line Manual Pages; Complete on-line OSF/Motif Users Guide; Source code to OSF/Motif demo programs; Source code included to run demo programs.

MPC Wizard V3.0 - Softkey International - Windows - CD-ROM - Jewel Case - -
Get your Multimedia PC up and running fast! Test, tune and troubleshoot like the pros! If you are configuring your own system, have brought one that is pre-installed,or just want to see if your system is really what it says, the MPC Wizard is your essential tool kit. Its diagnostic tests check out your graphics, sound, video, CD-ROM drive and Video for Windows performance. Set the MPC Wizard to automatically check out your whole system, or to test specific areas. Detailed test results can be saved to disk, clipboard or printed for easy reference. Troubleshooting tips help you solve your compatibility problems fast. Contains one of the most comprehensive collections of Windows graphic, sound and CD-ROM drivers available anywhere.

Norton AntiVirus 7.0 Mac - Symantec - Macintosh - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh protects your computer from dangers lurking in email messages, Internet files, shared disks, and every other possible source of infection. Yet its powerful virus protection is easy to set up and easy to keep updated. No wonder it's the leading anti-virus product for Macintosh systems.

Norton Utilities V2.0 - Symantec - Windows NT4.0 - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
The Norton Utilities maximises performance and protection for Windows NT 4.0 workstations and servers. As good as Windows NT is, there are ways to make it better. Norton Utilities for Windows NT picks up where the operating system leaves off, delivering an automated set of tools that will safeguard your critical information and help you work faster. Defragment your hard drive, recover deleted files, monitor key system resources automatically, and scan for viruses - all in the name of improved efficiency. Trust Norton to help you get the most out of Windows NT.

pcAnywhere 10.0 - Symantec - Windows 95/98/NT/2000 - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
Remote conrol software. pcAntwhre lets you stay productive even when you are away from the office. If you need to work from home or on the road, pcAnywhere lets you connect to your office PC to retrieve files or run desktop applications. If you are an IT professional, pcAnywhere lets you remotely support users and manage servers effectively.

PCsync - LapLink - Windows - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
Ultimate file management tool. It's a must-have whenever you transfer files to a new computer or move files between multiple computers. Laplink.com has been setting the standart in file transfer since 1986. PCsync continues that tradition. Using Laplink.com's patented SpeedSync technology and award-winning interface , PCsync provides you with the fastest and easiest way to transfer files between PC's.

R-Win 32 V5.02 new - Proxima Systems - Windows - CD-ROM - Retail Box - Image -
Multilingual national support system R-Win makes your work in MS Windows else more pleasant, You can simultaneously include characters of Russian, West-European, East-European and any other languages, supported by Windows, in your documents, texts and letters, using language specific symbols. With R-Win you can use Russian localised programs ( such as MS Office Russian and other programs) in Windows environment. In addition to standard Windows switching key combinations (Ctrl-Shift and Alt-Shift) R-Win enables some easy -to-use key combinations, such as Right Ctrl, Left Ctrl, L.Shift and R.Shift. You can use from two to five languages simultaneously, attached to them hot-key combinations; regulated sound switching indication and signs at desktop indicator helps you control current language. "R-Win Editor & Text Editor Converter" utility helps you to read, edit and convert text in ANSI, ASCII and KOI-8 encoding. It is useful for work with e-mail and Internet, for quick converting your e-mail into necessary format. With "Keyboard editor" utility you can create your own comfortable keyboard layout. "R-Win Keyboard" utility displays on your desktop current keyboard layout. It is useful in work with unfamiliar languages. You also receive original True Type font library. If it becomes necessary, you can use "R-Win Uninstall" utility. It quickly and correctly removes R-Win program files from your PC and rebuild initial system parameters. R-Win 32 works with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000.

Shree-Lipi Punjabi - Modular Systems Software - Windows 3.1x - 3.5" Disks - Retail Box - -
Shree-Lipi is a Windows based font package for Indian languages. It has built in Keyboard Manager and utilities for support of various Windows based packages. High quality, specially hinted Modular fonts are supplied in Adobe type 1 format. These fonts can be used in various applications like Pagemaker, Ventura, CorelDraw etc. This package is supplied with software and board card for Shree-Lipi system with Punjabi fonts.

Virtual CD V3 - Microtest; MediaGold Publishing - Windows 95/98/NT4/2000 - CD-ROM - Retail Box - -
Run Multiple CDs from your Hard Drive. With this software every MS-Windows user can run their CD applications and music CDs directly from the hard disk - no need for physical CD drives or the actual CD media. The Microtest Virtual CD technology creates compressed, "virtual" images of CDs on the hard disk and emulates CD drives to access and run applications. Virtual CD is ideal for users looking for enhanced CD performance or for running CD applications on laptops and other computers not equipped with CD drives. Virtual CD can emulate music and mixed mode CDs, optionally with MP3 compression allowing up to 95% compression rates!