6 Sep 2005 tevaum   » (Journeyer)

Today, my neighbour (he likes to play with hardware stuff) wanted to play with the LPT parport... he set up some LEDs and asked me to control them via software... I thought it would take a lot of work, but when I realized all I needed to do was to send one byte to the LPT base address (0x378) and watch the result, I made a little 16bit dos program (he uses win98) that switched the leds in sequence. That was beatiful, and took less than one minute! We'll try to make something more interesting than turning LEDs on and off... and I'll let you know! :]

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