The shareware version had two limitations: it had a ten-second waiting time on startup and it was not able to write to individual boot sectors.

VGA-Copy Pro 5.3 was the last version to work on an Intel 286 (AT class) computer with 1MB of RAM, as well as on Micro Channel architecture systems.

VGA-Copy/386 versions 6.x improved performance on modern machines, but required an Intel 386 CPU and 4MB of RAM.

A special feature of VGA-Copy is the ability to format floppies with capacities beyond the normal specifications.

To access such over-formatted floppies VGA-Copy delivered a special persistent DOS driver.