The other day, I attempted to attach my DL/SA scoreboard to the Core 2 Duo PC that I got about 2 years ago. When I went to plug it in, I realized that there was nothing to plug it into!!! That's right... I've encountered my first PC that doesn't have a parallel port!
I ended up buying a PCI Parallel card to remedy this issue. There are plenty on
http://newegg.com. You need to install drivers into Windows to get it to work. I then encountered my next problem... the new parallel port does not show up on a standard parallel port address (378 and 278) and there is apparently no way to get it to do so. I did test the PAR-IO.DLL driver and it does appear to work properly with the add-on parallel port.
Therefore, I am making a change to Daphne that will allow you to specify any parallel port address rather than restricting you to the two standard addresses. This should fix the problem. I will provide the code changes to Matt_O and hopefully it will see the light of day in a new Daphne release soon.
Thanks,
Brad O.