Yeah, I burned out a pin of my laptop parallel port by being too careless with it.
Do you have software in mind? An OS, a GUI builder like Delphi or Visual Basic? Newer OSes like Windows 2K, XP and up protect the hardware ports from the user so besides a user interface program, you need to bypass the Windows port protection with a utility like "inpout32.dll" or "porttalk".
Or if anyone knows of a more modern way for a user interface to access the parallel port I'd also be interested in learning about it because I use parallel port access quite a lot with these old utilities.
David
Do you have software in mind? An OS, a GUI builder like Delphi or Visual Basic? Newer OSes like Windows 2K, XP and up protect the hardware ports from the user so besides a user interface program, you need to bypass the Windows port protection with a utility like "inpout32.dll" or "porttalk".
Or if anyone knows of a more modern way for a user interface to access the parallel port I'd also be interested in learning about it because I use parallel port access quite a lot with these old utilities.
David