The dongle users are sometimes lucky to be able to get a USB version of the dongle. And these dongles are often for multi-thousand dollar software so it's no small matter either.
But nothing that tries to access the parallel port UART chip directly.ĭo a search for parallel port dongles on these forums (such as this one ) and you'll see that you're in a similar situation. Sometimes scanners and cameras, whose software fiddle with the handshaking lines. The issue is that these USB adapters generally only work with printers. It seems to me that there should be some way to communicate with the USB/Printer cable, but I simply have no clue with USA protocols at this time. The Xeltek Eprom Programmer is only a few years old (late 90s)and the operating software goes up to XP, but it REALLY wants to find it at a printer port.
If it did work on a physical machine, you wouldn't need to do anything, as the software for the USB parallel adapter would normally present LPT2 (or whatever) to WIndows. Ok, if it DID work, how would one redirect the USB/Printer port to mimick a printer port (LPT1/2/3.)?
