Hi I'm interested in building a pcb plotter for hobbiest use. The mechanical and electronics side are of no hassle to me, I plan to use a Motorola 6800 based controller to handle as much of the software and hardware as possible. The problem is, I have never done any major windows programing. I'm a keen C programmer (low level only) and am vaguely familiar with visual basic but this is all the potential skill I have far as windows programming goes. My need is to develop a simple printer driver for use with my plotter via either parallel or serial port (or isa bus) but windows programming has always been so highly modular and protected that logical programmers like me never understand what the hell is happening!!! If I were to use my existing copy of visual basic, could anyone point me in the right direction? How do i make a custom device driver?
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