NeTraverse's
Win4Lin allows you to run a
Windows 9xsession under
Linux, so you can use
Microsoft Office,
Internet Explorer (as much as I like
Konqueror, IE is still zippier), and hordes of other Windows applications. As of version 3.0, Win4Lin supports parallel and serial port access in Windows, as well as all sorts of ways to configure the way drives and
partitions show up. However, it does not support
DirectX, so no games...
If you ask nicely, the NeTraverse sales staff will give you a evaluation key to run Win4Lin in demo mode.