Slightly OT: DOS programs in Win XP

[Ram Meenakshisundaram]

Hi,

If you want to do that, there is a better way (if you want
to write the C code for it).  I use IO.DLL which allows you
to do inp, outp in user space.  There are several of these types
of DLLs, but this one seems to be popular:

http://www.geekhideout.com/iodll.shtml

This allows you to port those old dos programs directly over to
XP as a console program.  Very handy....

Cheers,

Ram
-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight K. Elvey [mailto:dwight.elvey at amd.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:09 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Slightly OT: DOS programs in Win XP


Hi
 I've been wondering. If I use one of these tools
will it allow me to have things like the bi-directional
control of the parallel port? I use the parallel port
to connect to an older paper tape reader. Does it
really emulate access to hardware or just the more
standard useages like serial ports?
Dwight

>From: "Ram Meenakshisundaram" <RMeenaks at olf.com>
>
>Use DosBox or Boch's from XP....
>
>http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1
>
>http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ram
>
>



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