Subj : Re: Looking For Bbs Clien To : AKAcastor From : kirkspragg Date : Sat May 04 2024 19:14:52 AK> I am not ready at the moment to test the setup, I am familiar enough with AK> dosbox to get the gist of it, but I think it would be great to have AK> detailed information about this as it's such a good way to pull the AK> files you want to use onto your retro PC and your experience here would AK> be valuable. I can't given details for how to get this working on linux as I have only tried this on windows. 1 - Download and install the latest Dosbox-x (dosbox-x.com), use the installer not the potable version as it may be missing an the dlls required to access a physical printer port. 2 - Install you PCI-e parallel port card, I had issues with this as I did not follow the instructions that came with the card & that made things more difficult. If the instructions say to install the drivers BEFORE physically installing the card, DO THAT or you may find yourself in with a complete mess windows driver wise. 3 - In windows device manager find your printer port, it should be in the Ports (COM & LPT) section of the device manager. 4 - Open the printer port's device entry from the device manager & go to the resources tab. Look for I/O ranges in the "Settings" box & note them down. 5 - One of the IO ranges will be the base port and the other the ECP port. You'll have to discover which is which via trial and error I am afraid.... 6 - Setup dosbox-x to use your physical hardware. This is pretty simple, just add something like the following to the [parallel] section of your dosbox config file, replacing IO addresses D010 & D000 with what you found in step 4: parallel1 = realpt realbase:D010 ecpbase:D000 Note that to figure out which address is the base port it's easier to set this up without setting ecpbase (just leave it out) & just try both IO addresses out with fastlynx/laplink running in dosbox and on a 'real' computer with ISA printer port. Thats how I figured it out. This might work with other software, however I am pretty sure that dosbox-x doesn't pass through hardware interrupt requests thus anything relying on this won't work or may be very slow - I believe this is an issue for PLIP. .... Never test for an error you don't know how to handle. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64) * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbS>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150) .