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OK, I am having some difficulty understanding the process here. What we are trying to accomplish here is having all the children’s computer games loaded onto the Virtual cd, which is on one computer. Then, since it is part of our public domain, the idea is that the three other children’s computers would be allowed access to it. This way the games are only installed on one computer, but they can be played on all the computers.

I am trying to look online on how this works, but am getting lost in the manual/instructions as to how this gets setup. How is it that the other computers gain access?

Plus, and I might have not completed the steps correctly, I have eight games created on the Virtual CD, but it seems that I can only get one to play at a time, instead of all eight in the drive ready to be accessed. I have them in a folder marked “games” and thought that I would be able to insert the entire folder in the drive, but am not allowed.

Right now we only have the demo version. Does that have something to do with it?

Please respond to my email as soon as possible, because we can't even use it at the moment, and the trial is running out.

Thanks for your help,
Kelly Olson
Keene Memorial Library

Which version and how to install

Maybe the KB article below will help you to decide which version of Virtual CD fits your needs.

At first sight I'd suggest Virtual CD FS which allows to mount virtual CDs or a bunch of CDs (a so-called collection) on a file server and share them to the client PCs. Unfortunately this does not work with multimedia disks (audio and video) and games which expect the CD in a (virtual) CD drive instead of being run out of a shared directory.

If you have such games you'd need Virtual CD client version which has to be installed on every client PC.

Installing Virtual CD correctly in a network environment