Why bother? DMCA makes any bypass of your copyright illegal, so any method you use is good enough, even if it's a 47K resistor on the game port(or equivalent in simplicity for rs232 port, say a diode and a resistor on the control lines). -Bob -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics