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Re: [ECS] Win2k and I/O Port Byte Steve Letkeman Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:56:33 -0700

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Hi Scott,

   The single greatest obstacle I have faced in the last few years with
developing
hardware for the PC has been the inability to access the hardware directly
since Windows 3.1 and it isn't getting any better with the exception of USB.
There appears to be some existing drivers that can be used to do simple
I/O stuff through USB without _too_ much hassle.

Steve


Actually, your boards look like they do the same thing that the Quatech ones
do.  If there is some ground swelling of interest in them, I would be
willing to change over (this board I'm using is free right now.)  I think
your isa-pro2 board is the same, but with two 8255's enstead of three.  It's
just too bad that Microsoft won't give us the option of changing a setting
somewhere and letting us write to memory or ports.  Or since it's
suppossedly taken from us for our own good, maybe they would let us specify
the area of memory not to protect in a ini or reg file, and then let us
write and read from it.  So if anyone has a contact at microsoft, please
pass that idea to them.. . . . .

>>> "Steve Letkeman" <zanthic@zanthic.com> 08/01 11:26 AM >>>
I sell a number of I/O interfaces including ISA and EPP parallel
with drivers for 95/98/NT and 2000. (starting at $39)  I haven't tested my
boards
under 2000 yet but they are supposed to work as expected.
My drivers are in the form of a DLL that can be called from
VB or C and include interrupt support that can trigger an
event right inside VB (VB5 or higher).  If somebody wants
to test the driver under 2000 I will send you a freebie.

Steve
Zanthic Technologies Inc. located at    http://www.zanthic.com
Controller Area Network boards for HC11, 8051, AVR & ISA/PC104 and Parallel
I/O boards for ISA and Parallel, Win95/98 and NT drivers included

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Hoehnen" <dhoehnen@infinet.com>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:14 AM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Win2k and I/O Port Byte


> Mark,
>
> I have a link to Jan Axelson's Parallel Port Central web page on my Home
> Automation Index at:
>
> http://www.homeautomationindex.com
>
> She has links to various I/O drivers for NT.  Some are free, some are
cheap
> and some are xpensive.  Here's her site: http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm
>
> Hopefully one of these can help.
>
> Dan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Gilmore [mailto:omnip@usit.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:59 AM
> > To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> > Subject: Re: [ECS] Win2k and I/O Port Byte
> >
> >
> > A cursory search on this topic turned up
> > only commercial products as solutions.
> > I entered +"windows 2000" +inp +outp in Yahoo.
> > --
> > Mark Gilmore
> > Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
> > http://www.usit.com/omnip
> > 423-745-0026
> > Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST
> >
>
>

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