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POSE Palm OS Emulator
The Palm OS Emulator (POSE) is software that emulates the hardware of various models of Palm Powered™ handhelds. It allows you to create "virtual" handhelds. The Palm OS Emulator is extremely valuable for writing, testing and debugging applications. It emulates 68K devices and runs ROM images of the Palm OS through Palm OS 4.x.
The pose RPM contains the emulator and the "skins" that represents the device you are emulating. You will need to get ROM images.
Getting ROM images
You can get ROM images for POSE from the internet or from an actual device. If you get one from a device, make sure that the ROM image is one that POSE can use.
From the Internet
Palm-branded product ROMs require registration and a signed license agreement. See http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/.
Retrieving A ROM from a handheld
Before you get a copy of your particular handheld's ROM, make sure that POSE can use that type. If the ROM version is 5.x or later, it will not work.
To retrieve a ROM image you need to do a couple of things. First, you'll need to install the ROM Transfer application /usr/share/pose/ROM_Transfer.prc onto your handheld using the standard desktop installation procedure.
Start ROM_Transfer on the Palm, follow the instructions on the device, and tap the “Begin Transfer” button. Now, you'll need to start the process going on the desktop as well.
- Run the Emulator and you'll see the initial POSE window.
- Right-click on the window to display a menu. From that menu, choose “Transfer ROM”. Follow the instructions shown in the resulting Transfer ROM dialog.
Using Sun Virtual Box in Mandriva
Sun Microsystem's Virtual Box is an x86 virtualization software, which allows you to have a guest operating system under a host.Virtual Box is in the mandriva repository, find virtualbox in RPMdrake (package manager) and install, and it should work right after install.
Win4Lin on Mandriva Linux
(The previous version of this page was lost somewhere in Nov 2004 ... the only copy I had of it was this email version I sent to the win4lin-users list. I don't have time to make it look nice now, so I'm just pasting the email, someone else can clean it up, or I will clean it up when I have time ...).
Win4Lin requires a kernel patched for Win4Lin, and a kernel module, to function correctly. However, to allow easy maintenance of the kernel, and to ensure users have all the same features and drivers when running Win4Lin as running a normal Mandriva Linux kernel, Win4Lin kernel images are maintained in contrib which are built from the kernel-source package with only the patch, module, and configuration changes necessary to get Win4Lin running.
Assuming everything works as intended, you should only need to follow the steps on this page to get a suitable Win4Lin kernel installed and running.
If you have hints for installing Win4Lin itself, please feel free to document them here too ...
Run the win4lin installer
Some people have reported having problems running the installer, you may rather want to get the Win4Lin RPM from Netraverse, install that, and then run the installer.
Run Windows Games in Transgaming Cedega
Cedega[1] is included in mandriva powerpack, therefore all you need to do is create an account or start your free trial.For ONE and FREE, you must go to Cedega's website[2] and sign up or try demo[3] You can search and find if your game works or if it doesn't here[4]
How to run your Windows software with WINE
WINE[5] is in the package manager repos.WINE is a tool that allows you to run most Windows software in Mandriva without needing a copy of Microsoft Windows.To install,Simply find wine and install, and wine should work.You can search this page[6] to see if your application will work in mandriva with WINE.
Wine tricks may help you get some stubborn applications to work
to get wine tricks, use in command line (konsole)
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks mv winetricks /usr/local/bin
