Re: ZVG

At my "real" job we have a jtag utility that loves to talk directly to the
parallel port. We use "giveio.sys" to enable our utility to work under
Win2k and WinXP.

Kurt

> Zonn -- have you looked at WRITE_PORT_BUFFER_UCHAR?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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 15:29:43 2003