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First post, by olddosuser

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I am really getting a kick out of DosBox. I just got my modem to work. I have an old Com program that I used to call BBS's and it works. It is so cool. I am not really using it right now, since I have no #'s for BBS's, but it is nice to have it just in case.

It would be nice to add support for USB and parallel printers. I have an old word processing program that uses LPT to print. Some PCs still have printer ports. Not sure how difficult to get programs to use those ports. USB is more common though and probably more difficult. Also, what about network printers. It seems that if you could get DosBox to see the printers as LPT then the program should have not prob. Maybe it is not that simple.

Any chance of printer support in the next release? Any idea how soon the next version will be released and what features are in it?

Reply 2 of 3, by olddosuser

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robertmo wrote:

I know about the MegaBuild, but thought the printer support would be added in the next official release. How stable and trustworthy is this MegaBuild 5?