Hi! Moving this topic to a new thread:
Next problem: I tried to get printer support via USB (currently they use classic LPT, but those printers get very rare).
Asking around and looking around a bit, people have suggested to run DOS inside vDOSplus, DOSBOX-X, DOSEMU2, VirtualBox and so on with a Linux or Windows host operating system. I think when you run DOSBOX-X on DOS as host, it would not support USB printers. But it could support HDA, AC97 soundchips and simulate SB16 for the DOS inside? Sounds very nice! :-) Also, I wonder how Windows and Linux would react to those frequent power loss related crashes of the whole computer. Probably not very amused? Either way, I stumbled over a cool microcontroller based solution by Henrik Haftmann, with free EAGLE PCB data and circuit diagram and the corresponding firmware. Even an ultra low cost RS232 firmware install method is part of the project :-) https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/basteln/PC/USB2LPT/lpt2usb.de.htm https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/basteln/PC/USB2LPT/lpt2usb.en.htm Of course this is less superpowered than https://www.retroprinter.com/ mentioned earlier, based on a complete computer and able to convert old DOS printer data to output even for GDI printers if I got that right? The page also links some alternatives from other sources, but I found ALL of the linked products in the Gibt's schon / re-invented section to be no longer available. So better make some backup of Henrik's USB2LPT. Cheers, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
