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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: The Amiga parallel port with the BridgeCard
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Date: 18 Jul 88 03:39:19 GMT
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In article <7800@watdragon.waterloo.edu| rszinn@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Scotte Zinn) writes:
|I am wondering how transparent the Amiga parallel port is to the Amiga when
|running LPT1 and how fully it implements the IBM PC/XT parallel port LPT1.
|Does it allow input/output?  How about all of the handshaking and are they in
|the proper direction?
|I require this info since I will be developing some software for the PC on the
|BridgeCard that requires total control of the Parallel port and the control
|lines.

I have been using LPT1 on the Bridgecard with a variety of PC programs
with absolutely no glitch. Considering that the BridgeCard uses the Phoenix
BIOS emulator, I would assume no incompatibility.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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