> There are a few other options.
>
> First, there are utilities that allow dos programs direct port access
> under win2k/xp, one of which is mentioned by David Tait for his
> programmer software FPP:
> ********* Taken from FPP.ZIP's readme.htm
> FPP fiddles with I/O ports directly and while this is tolerated under
> Win95/98/Me, it is a definite no-no on NT-like versions of Windows. To
> get around this the program looks for and uses a special driver called
> "GIVEIO.SYS" which can be downloaded asdirectio.zip
> <http://www.ddj.com/ftp/1996/1996.05/directio.zip> from the Dr Dobb's
> Journal archive. You only need this driver if you use Windows NT,
> Windows 2000 or Windows XP. The driver can be installed in a variety of
> ways but I used a program called "LOADDRV.EXE" (one source of this
> program is loaddrv.zip <http://pages.zoom.co.uk/andyc/loaddrv.zip>). The
> method I used was as follows:
>
>    * Copy GIVEIO.SYS to a folder (for example SYSTEM32 in the Windows
>      system folder)
>    * Run LOADDRV, specify the full path name of GIVEIO.SYS, and hit
>      install
>    * Reboot
>    * Run the Device Manager (from the hardware tab of the System
>      control panel item)
>    * Select the menu option to show hidden devices
>    * Look for "giveio" under non-plug&play drivers, right click and
>      select properties
>    * Using the driver tab of the properties sheet select Automatic
>    * Reboot
>
> *********
>
> The program using the driver has to be aware of it, however.  I don't
> know who recompiled NOPPP for windows but they may have done something
> similar.  I've heard that there are drivers for programs that have no
> special knowledge of that situation, check out Jan Axelson's web site on
> the parallel port, IIRC she has a similar driver.
>
> The second option is to use David Taits software which is compatible
> with a wide variety of cheap PIC programmers, though I don't see him
> spell out the particular settings for the NOPPP I imagine it would work
> fine.  It may not have all the self test features of the NOPPP program,
> though.  His software can be found here:
> http://people.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/piclinks.html
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Adam
>
> Tony Goetz wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>> Just got a new computer and put Windows 2000 on it (oh I *do* love
>> trying to
>> find everything I used to have and then installing it). One of the
>> things I
>> came across was NOPPP9x, something which I've gotten used to and
>> would like
>> to continue using. Yet, I get errors when trying to run it. Realizing
>> that
>> it's NOPPP9x and not NOPPP2k, is it a problem with using Windows 2000
>> or am I
>> still just missing libraries and stuff? Thanks
>>
>> -Tony
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