RE: ZVG

Zonn -- have you looked at WRITE_PORT_BUFFER_UCHAR?

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> From: owner-vectorlist@synthcom.com
> [mailto:owner-vectorlist@synthcom.com] On Behalf Of Hood, Eric
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 5:34 AM
> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Subject: RE: VECTOR: ZVG
>
>
> I got this message from Zonn...
>
> "... because of driver problems ZVGEmu does not run under W2k
> windows, it must be Win'98 or DOS."
>
> "Here's the problem. I need to be able to talk directly to
> the parallel port. W2K considers the parallel port off
> limits to non-priveledged programmers. What is needed is a
> W2k driver of some type that allow the ZVG access to the
> parallel port. There are a few drivers out there that allow
> accessing the parallel port, but the way the general use ones
> work is by changing privileged modes each time they are
> called, this is too slow for the ZVG. I need to be able to
> dump a small buffer to the parallel port using the ECP mode."
>
> --Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Rosenzweig [mailto:joel.rosenzweig@verizon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 10:11 PM
> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> Subject: VECTOR: ZVG
>
>
> Does anyone have any software that will drive the ZVG under
> Windows XP? I
> thought I had this great plan to build a PIII machine with XP
> and have the
> machine connected to the internet for some future networked
> vector multigame
> action... I've been unable to communicate with the ZVG on
> this new machine,
> even after installing an additional PCI ECP parallel port device.
>
> On my previous machine, I was at least able to communicate
> with the ZVG
> using a command prompt from Windows 98. That was good - but
> now that I've
> migrated to XP and this new machine, I'm out of luck. The ZVG
> apps fail to
> see the parallel port. I'm hoping that there's some
> software that will
> save the day so that I don't have to write this driver!
>
> Joel-
>
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Received on Wed Apr 30 13:14:19 2003