Xp won't let me use port

Hello all this is my first post

I wrote a nifty little assembly language com file that let's me
turn on and off any of the 8 data lines on my parralell port.
I am no programing guru, but it works well when running on
a dos boot disk. The problem is Win XP won't let my progam
actually acsess the port is there any way around this?

It's not much but I will give my program to anyone who would
like to play with it

 

Hi and welcome

Not tried this myself, but according some newsgroups it seems one have to update the driver for the parallel port to allow direct access to it in WinXP

A free driver called Port IO can be found here:

http://www.driverlinx.com/Software_Products/softwareproducts.htm

More info about parallel ports (Look for "Programming Tools")

http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm

P.S. This topic might belong to the programming section

 

this IS the programming section.......

 

Hehe the thread was moved from Software to Programming after I posted my answer