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Parallel port passthrough (Windows only)

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Reply 41 of 44, by easyw3

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I'm having problems in running portalk.sys on win7 32bit...
when I test porttalk I get this error
'Unknown Error While Starting Service. Service was NOT Started'
and Megabuild doesn't get the parallel port...
(UAC is disabled)
Any suggestion?
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Reply 43 of 44, by easyw3

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my problem is on running porttalk.sys as service...
in Vista I get no error, but in win7 32bit I cannot start correctly the service...

here I found some suggestions,
http://psychtoolbox.org/FaqTTLTrigger
but without a solution ...

still the service porttalk is not running...
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Reply 44 of 44, by easyw3

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I solved with some coding, porting InpOut32 64bit driver to the dosbox megabuild, substituting porttalk to access lpt under 64bit systems.
thanks to the help I got in the forum 😀
dosbox megabuild setup.cpp error

directlpt_win32.cpp
to anyone that could be interested in, the source is here
download.php?id=10054