Articles¶

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Some articles don't get updated often and might be out of sync with the latest emulator version or be ahead of it.

General about emulator¶

Guest Additions - how do Guest Additions works
PC Cards and serial ports - what you can put into a PCMCIA slot/Serial port
Getting the guest online - put a network card in the slot and browse the web from Windows CE.
Touch and mouse - when taps do not land, and the calibration trap.
Feedback - send a feedback or a bug report
Running your own ROM - boot a dump of a board CERF already supports.
Connecting to ActiveSync - connect a guest handheld to a desktop ActiveSync and move files both ways.
ROM bundle repositories - where to get ROMs

Principles - emulator under the hood; author's notes, choices and shortcuts
The configuration files - the three layers of cerf.json, and what each one can set.
Save and restore - how saved state works
Windows CE ROM containers - the ROM file formats, how they differ across CE versions, and how to extract them.