hmm... do you have access to a Win98 computer ? Testing the device out as soon as you get it would be pretty easy if you did. There are a few things you'd have to change though, to make sure the LPT port can communicate two ways:

- You go in Bios and change the port type from standard printer to ECP and the DMA you set to 3 (unless it's already done)
- In win 98 you go to the device manager, and change the resources to basic configuration 000

this would set us on the same page (i tested on a laptop with win 98 and on a 486 with win 98 and it worked in both cases). From there on we could figure out the rest. I tried this in XP and running the program in win 98 compatibility mode, but still no luck. It's all up to that little DLL driver now