George.......I know that you have to have a CD-Rom Drive that can "READ" the VCD's and DVD"s in order to Copy one. Don't think you can do it with the Standard Plextor and Yamaha's CD-Roms we use everyday to copy CD+G's.
I used to copy VCD's using my Toshiba DVD CD-Rom and CloneCD, but have removed the Toshiba.....Don't mess with VCD Karaoke anymore.
In the above, Clone CD would copy the VCD from my Toshiba DVD CD-Rom, I would then burn to a CD-R using my Plextor.
Using CloneCD you can copy a VCD disk. If you want to know if any copy protection is on the disk, use the Clony XL program to identify the copy protection and then use Clony XL to export those settings to Clone CD.
The following website has all the major copy protection settings for CloneCD for the major copy protection schemes:
http://clone.cd/portals/mod.php?mod=fileman&menu=1405
Since I don't have my Toshiba DVD CD-Rom installed, can't say whether MicroStudio can copy VCD's or not.