Hi there. Just got a DrV64 today It works great on my TV. What i'm interested in though is connecting it to my PC...Is there a parallel port adaptor that would connect to my modern PC? Many thanks.
Something like this for an example? http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...T&cid=262075&lid=4742361&acd=1230980794501410
drv64 parallel port pc connection Hi there. Thanks for the reply the parallel port USB adapter cable may not work with the Dr v64 from my small amount of googling. After my post last night I relised what I possibly needed was a parallel port PCI card to add to my pc. This is the route I'm gonna try along with a normal parallel port cable. I'm trying to set up a win7 working environment for my drv64. Failing that I might have to install my old win98 os. Thanks for your interest.
If you want to use a parallel port, or old dev hardware, you're far better off having an old PC for such purposes, rather than trying to get it all running under a modern, 64 bit version of Windows. That's only going to cause you a huge headache.
PCI-E LPT Card http://www.ebay.com/itm/141403396933 PCI LPT Card http://www.ebay.com/itm/120612524783
A PCIe LPT card will work, but you could run into difficulty with various existing transfer software. PCI(e) cards aren't allowed to map the parallel port to the legacy address (378h), so the software must be flexible enough to allow you to specify a base address. Look to uCON64.
Thanks for the advice everyone. I am now looking at getting an old pc tower from work and setting up win 98SE for my DRv64.
Are you talking about the DRv64jr?? The flash cart?? If so I have all the software and stuff to get it working on Windows 7 but it's waay easier on Winxp and below.. even have a cart dumping program but I haven't used it yet.. .. also it needs a special (straight through I think) parrelle cable.. works fine on modern mobos with parrelle (I'm using a late 775 gigabyte DDR3 mobo)
You may be able to try the method outlined here https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=54187 (Please note I only skimmed these instructions). Basically the gist is that you make the parallel port directly available to the VM. That way you can run an old VM and still have access. I've done something similiar for SCSI to make it available to a Win98 Vm. (tested and working with my Katana)
You don't need to run Win 9x, even in a VM... If your motherboard provides the LPT you can use any Win NT compatible transfer software directly. http://n64.icequake.net/mirror/www.dextrose.com/files/n64/transfer_tools/ But if you have a PCI(e) LPT card you can at least use uCON 64, and probably several others. This is my suggested route because of the limited availability of LPT mobos. Also you can use the same method for recent laptops with an ExpressCard LPT. Even if you're insistent on using Bung's original (DOS) tool, you can use DOSbox (which can forward I/O to a PCIe card). I believe Bung released the source however so even that's not necessary because it can easily be compiled as a Windows CLI EXE, with I/O handled by inpout32. (64-bit version here: http://www.highrez.co.uk/Downloads/InpOut32/default.htm) The only trouble you'll run into are a few Win 9x programs written between '97 and '01 which expect direct port access, and/or programs with 0x378 hardcoded if you're using a LPT card (change with a hex editor).
I used to connect a parallel cable from my computer to my v64 and transfer files to it back when I had first received it. I could remember thinking how cool it was to be able to download a rom from the internet and a couple minutes later have it running on the tv. Fortunately I still have an old computer that I use for my old dos games that can transfer the files, plus I believe one of my old laptops still has a parallel port on it.
