1.2 Features and Benefits

1. CD-ROM Game Support:

Supports the largest number of games on the market today including copy-protected titles, such as The Sims, Diablo II, Red Alert and many more.

2. Copy protection support:

Create virtual CDs from copy protected CDs, such as, Safedisk1, Safedisk2, Securom, Laserlock, etc...

3. Run Multiple CDs Simultaneously

Run multiple CDs at the same time. For example: You may browse Great Britain Encyclopedia in a VirtualDrive while checking new words from dictionary in another and at the same time enjoy music from a CD in physical CD-ROM.

4. Optimized CD performance:

CDs are played at hard disk drive speed (equivalent to 200x CD drive). GameDrive also comes with advanced caching technology that can reduce CD access times by up to 75%.

5. Fully integrated with Windows:

GameDrive's XP-style interface is completely integrated with

Windows Explorer and the Windows Device Manager. Enable/disable CD Autorun, change CD drive letters or set your own hot-keys to run CDs.

6. Easy Management

GameDriveTM converts the entire CD contents into a single VCD file on the hard drive. Organizing and managing your CDs couldn't be easier.

7. Compression

GameDriveTM incorporates a high-performance compression engine for building VCD files. Compressed VCD files are automatically decompressed when accessed.

12. Command Line Support

Use the command line functions to mount VCDs and auto-run selected applications or create shortcuts.

13. Ideal for Notebooks

Run CDs at a higher performance with improved Notebook battery life.

14. Removable Drives

Save VCD files on any removable media. You can also create custom VCDs from files on removable media, such as Magneto-Optical (MO) disk or burn VCDs to a CD, like you do other files.

15. Network Capable

Some CD applications only run (lock) from a CD drive and will not run on a mapped network drive. With GameDrive, VCDs can be shared across the network.

16. Rapid Cache GameDriveTM comes with FarStone's Rapid Cache® CD caching system, utilizing the latest incremental caching technology. Rapid Cache can increase VCD and CD performance.

17. CD properties browser and CD drive evaluation tools

Evaluate the transfer rate and access time for your CD drive(s) under Windows. Inspect abilities of your CD drives, such as ADPCM, audio channels, addressing, interleave, as well as media and vendor information.

18. Automatically recognizes CD formats

GameDrive can distinguish the type and format of a CD to either convert into a virtual CD or to run a program.

Customize your own VCDs with selected files from your CD or hard drives. VCDs you compile yourself can be configured to automatically run when inserted in a VirtualDriveTM.