Subj : Re: Looking For Bbs Clien
To   : AKAcastor
From : kirkspragg
Date : Fri May 03 2024 21:34:32

 AK> It is still possible - you can get PCIe serial (and parallel) interfaces
 AK> (if you have an available PCIe slot).  It does seem fairly niche these
 AK> days though.

I've got a PCIe parallel port card in my main Win 10 PC. With a bit of fiddling it was possible to configure Dosbox-X to use the parallel port directly & map it to dos LPT1.

Has been very useful that. Can run fastlynx/Laplink on my main PC & have my main PCs large hard drive mounted in & then use fastlynx to copy stuff from it to my retro PCs via a parallel port laplink cable.

Its a great setup for bootstrapping a new DOS install/recovering from a serious screw up...

.... I'm in a ACSII state of mind !

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