As I said, I had no issues with the USB to parallel adapters. Most recently, someone told me that Windows actually sees them as a printer (even when no printer is connected) and not an actual port. Does your experience reflect this? Absolutely right. Here's a write-up I did for XKCD forums in 2008 …

As I said, I had no issues with the USB to parallel adapters. Most recently, someone told me that Windows actually sees them as a printer (even when no printer is connected) and not an actual port. Does your experience reflect this? Hmmm, it might work then ;). I have not tried it so I would not …

As I said, I had no issues with the USB to parallel adapters. Since we are talking about a VM instead of DOSBox, most VMs allow for attaching USB devices, but not necessarily legacy devices. It is an avenue to explore if the VM does not recognize his PCI card adapter. Yeah, I think it would work, …

Sounds great, thank you guys for all of your help. Yes, right now we have a dual parallel PCI card, and dosbox is working great with both ports (after I edited the dosbox config file). I think we are going to leave it for now, since it only gives the command.com / low memory error once in awhile, …

BTW, will Booting MS-DOS within DOSBox give me access to the parallel port? It is a PCI parallel port, or does it need to be on the motherboard?

Thanks again for the ideas! I might try a usb to parallel adapter, but I think the DOS program only understands parallel ports, and not USB, but I will look into it. I didn't know about booting MS-DOS within DOSBox, that sounds like what we need to do, we appreciate your suggestion! They really do …

Thank you guys for the reply, I really appreciate it. It is too bad that we get this command.com / low memory error, because other than this, DOSBOX works perfectly with it, we even got the parallel port to work. And we only get this error every once in awhile, so if we can fix this error, we are …

Thank you for your reply, I totally understand. Do you happen to know of another way of running an old DOS program on Windows 8 64 bit? Thank you for your help!

Hi, I am new to DOSBOX, and I am trying to use it to run some old DOS software for a client. Overall, it works great, but sometimes DOSBOX gives me an error and says that it cannot find Command.com, OR there is not enough free memory. I have tried to copy Command.com from the Z: drive to the mounted …