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First post, by stevehorn

Posted on 2008-10-12, 17:31

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Hi,
I am trying to print from DosBox. I'm running an app written in BASIC. When the app tries to print to the LPT1 port, I get this message in the console:

Exit to error: DOS: Unhandled call 05

...then DosBox closes.

I've seen some threads going on where people have created patches, but they all require re-compiling the DosBox codebase. Is there some other way?

It would be great too if I could print to file - is there any way to do that?

Thanks for any help!!

Reply 1 of 4, by gulikoza

Posted on 2008-10-13, 14:23

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My build has printer support (not tested though). Also check HAL's page, he also has builds with printer support.

http://www.si-gamer.net/gulikoza

Reply 2 of 4, by stevehorn

Posted on 2008-10-15, 01:05

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gulikoza wrote:
My build has printer support (not tested though). Also check HAL's page, he also has builds with printer support.

Do you have a link to Hal's page so I can download his build?

I downloaded your build and DosBox did not crash, but it did not print either. Is there something I can check to troubleshoot?

Thanks!!

Reply 3 of 4, by DaveDoesIT

Posted on 2008-10-20, 12:07

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Do a search on AllowIO. That may help.

Dave

Reply 4 of 4, by Plan9FOS

Posted on 2008-10-25, 06:26

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For h-a-l-9000's latest Megabuild 4:

http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000

Highly recommended.

You'll also need PortTalk V2.2 from Beyond Logic:

http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk.htm

If you want to try to print on a network printer, you'll need WinPcap V4.0.2 from CACE Technologies:

http://www.winpcap.org/default.htm

I've used the Megabuild 4 and PortTalk V2.2 to get the CAD program PADS Perform V6.0.1 running in DOSBox to print over the physical LPT1 port.

I haven't tried to use WinPcap yet to get anything to print to a network printer, but I plan to when I have time since it would help running PADS on a newer computer which doesn't have a parallel port.

Good Luck.

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