PPIO - Old Hardware for Win 95 & 97...doesn't work with XP

[Guest]

Hello,

I have an old force measuring kit that connects to the parrallel port (think
LPT1 or LPT2) and was designed for Win 95 & 97 OS but doesn't work with XP.

When I try to hook it up to my new computer with XP Pro OS it is unable to
find the hardware.

On my win 95 machine the port it works on is LPT2 with it set on the Basic
Configuration 0001 (IRQ = 07; I/O Range = 0378 -037B; I/O 0778 - 077B).

Does anyone know how to get my XP machine to see this device...
I tried to find new hardware using the Windows tool and nothing is found...
I went through all the configurations setting for the ECP printer port and
it still couldn't see the hardware.

ANny suggestions would be graeatly appreciated

Thanks in advance
James

 

[Thomas Wendell]

MS-DOS, Win95 and Win98 (and WinME) allowed programs direct access to
hardware, WinNT, W2k, WinXP and W2k3 does not. So your problem is finding a
XP compatible version of the program to use that kit, or keep an older
machine with an older OS around for it.


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[zibby]

Use virtualPC from VMWare
I have win98 setup for that purpose with WinXP as host.
Win98 has full access to parallel and serial ports

 

[Michael Cecil]

Use virtualPC from VMWare

Um, VirtualPC is from MS now. VMWare has a competing PC emulator.
Just pointing out they aren't one in the same.

 

[Jetro]

Uhm, virtual machine has an access to emulated hardware only and it doesn't
know anything about the real h/w.

 

[zibby]

Uhm, virtual machine has an access to emulated hardware only and it doesn't
know anything about the real h/w.

Whatever it does, does a good job. Run Win98 under VMWare, and had "full
control" of parallel port.
It locks it out from "host OS"
So my custom software/hardware that needed parallel port worked perfect.

 

[zibby]

Um, VirtualPC is from MS now. VMWare has a competing PC emulator.
Just pointing out they aren't one in the same.

I call it virtual PC, and I should say Virtutual Machine.

VPC - from M$
VMware Workstation - http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html

 

[Jetro]

Might be but I cannot use any old HASP plug/software.