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crc



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crc 25 Sep 2004, 01:15
This is a simple parallel port driver. It can send/recieve bytes from the parallel port, though interpreting the bytes read is up to you. It can be used with some old dot-matrix parallel port printers without too much extra code Smile

Code:
; Parallel Port Driver
; Developed by Charles Childers
; -----------------------------------------------------
; * Released into the public domain *
; -----------------------------------------------------
; Port Addresses
;  $378  =  LPT1
;  $278  =  LPT2
; -----------------------------------------------------
  port = $378

; Returns eax = status byte
read_parallel:
  xor eax, eax            ;
  mov dx, port + 1        ; Read a status byte
  in al, dx               ;
ret

; eax = byte to write
write_parallel:
  mov dx, port
  out dx, al
  mov dx, port + 2
  mov al, 13
  out dx, al
  mov dx, port + 2
  mov al, 12
  out dx, al
ret
; -----------------------------------------------------    

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Matrix



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Matrix 11 Oct 2004, 20:08
crc wrote:
This is a simple parallel port driver. It can send/recieve bytes from the parallel port, though interpreting the bytes read is up to you. It can be used with some old dot-matrix parallel port printers without too much extra code Smile

Code:
; Parallel Port Driver
; Developed by Charles Childers
; -----------------------------------------------------
; * Released into the public domain *
; -----------------------------------------------------
; Port Addresses
;  $378  =  LPT1
;  $278  =  LPT2
; -----------------------------------------------------
  port = $378

; Returns eax = status byte
read_parallel:
  xor eax, eax            ;
  mov dx, port + 1        ; Read a status byte
  in al, dx               ;
ret

; eax = byte to write
write_parallel:
  mov dx, port
  out dx, al
  mov dx, port + 2
  mov al, 13
  out dx, al
  mov dx, port + 2
  mov al, 12
  out dx, al
ret
; -----------------------------------------------------    


Hy CRC,

you have interesting code there

do you really mean these?:
Code:
; eax = byte to write

; Returns eax = status byte
    


MATRIX
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crc



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crc 11 Oct 2004, 22:23
Yes.

This code is from my operating system, which uses 32-bit values internally. In reality, the original code was written in Forth, so it's not always a clean 1:1 mapping. I guess the comments could say "ax" instead of "eax", but it doesn't really matter too much does it?
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