Re: ZVG

Joel,

You might try this driver:
http://needhams.com/empnt.exe

It allows direct access to the [parallel] io port under nt/xp.

-Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: Hood, Eric <Eric.Hood@Maritz.com>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 7:33 AM
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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