Hello All,

I am not curtain of the amount of interest in interfacing PIC projects to a
PC via the parrallel port, but for those interested, Intel makes two 100pin
QFP chips which support full IEEE1284 level 2 specifications including
negotiation.  They cost around $20 a pop, but well worth it.  They allow up
to 2MByte transfer rate to the perifferal.  And it is easy to write PC app
that works on ALL versions of windows without the need of a device driver.
This includes Windows NT/2000/XP.  You just have to use the windows
CreateFile("\\\\.\\LPT1".....) to open the channel.  You can use
DeviceIOControl to change the tranfermodes if desired.

The Intel chips are the CD1283 and CD1284.  They are available from DigiKey.

Regards,

James

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