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ozpass
 Post subject: Obscure query.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 12:24 pm 
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I appreciate that nobody is likely to have a definitive answer to my question, but what is the likelihood of this software:

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink ... /index.htm

working with Virtual A5000?

Is the PC parallel port accessible by Virtual A5000?

Thanks in advance for any replies. :D
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Graeme
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Not in the immediate future

Legacy style devices such as serial/parallel ports that allow bytewise read/write are hard to support as the system overhead of getting each byte from RISC OS to the emulator, through win32, a driver and the port hardware, is very high.

Graeme
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