I have tried every possible setting in the Bios, most options do not work with the porttalk program, i.e. port not found, unless it is set to ECP. It is now set to ECP, while I have tried the different speed settings.

Have now tried various different speeds with same result: dongle not found.

Hal9000, thanks for replying so quickly. Any idea which pins might provide the power? I cannot find any details of actual power provided by the LPT port. I am measuring 4.46V between pin 1 and pin 25 which I believe is strobe and ground. I have another dongle by the way, for a C compiler, which is …

Hi all, Never used a forum like this before, hope I am posting in the right section. I have a few old programs that I am using for legacy products that are no longer supported by the manufacturers. These are a Z80 compiler, an eprom programmer and a PCB board layout program. I have got two of the …