SentinelPro LPT Dongle on PCem?
I wanted to use Autodesk 3D Studio 4.0 for DOS (https://winworldpc.com/product/3d-studio/4) on PCem, but it stops working and shows up SentinelPro must be plugged into parallel port. Are there any LPT passthrough emulators for MS-DOS?
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this DOSBOX has a virtual printer. http://ykhwong.x-y.net/
[printer]
printer: Enable printer emulation.
dpi: Resolution of printer (default 360).
width: Width of paper in 1/10 inch (default 85 = 8.5'').
height: Height of paper in 1/10 inch (default 110 = 11.0'').
printoutput: Output method for finished pages:
png : Creates PNG images (default)
ps : Creates Postscript
bmp : Creates BMP images (very huge files, not recommend)
printer : Send to an actual printer (Print dialog will appear)
multipage: Adds all pages to one Postscript file or printer job until CTRL-F2 is pressed.
docpath: The path where the output files are stored.
timeout: (in milliseconds) if nonzero: the time the page will
be ejected automatically after when no more data
arrives at the printer.
printer=true
dpi=360
width=85
height=110
printoutput=png
multipage=false
docpath=.
timeout=0
[parallel]
parallel1: parallel1-3 -- set type of device connected to lpt port.
Can be:
reallpt (direct parallel port passthrough),
file (records data to a file or passes it to a device),
printer (virtual dot-matrix printer, see [printer] section)
Additional parameters must be in the same line in the form of
parameter:value.
for reallpt:
Windows:
realbase (the base address of your real parallel port).
Default: 378
ecpbase (base address of the ECP registers, optional).
Linux: realport (the parallel port device i.e. /dev/parport0).
for file:
dev: (i.e. dev:lpt1) to forward data to a device,
or append: appends data to the specified file.
Without the above parameters data is written to files in the capture dir.
Additional parameters: timeout: = how long to wait before
closing the file on inactivity (default:500), addFF to add a formfeed when
closing, addLF to add a linefeed if the app doesn't, cp:
to perform codepage translation, i.e. cp:437
for printer:
printer still has it's own configuration section above.
parallel2: see parallel1
parallel3: see parallel1
dongle: Enable dongle
parallel1=disabled
parallel2=disabled
parallel3=disabled
dongle=false
So you have a SentinelPro for this specific version of 3D Studio?
The computer you are running it on has a real hardware parallel port?
Even if DOSBox or a similar emulator is set to passthrough, it may not work as some of these kinds of devices may use non-standard techniques to get information to and from the device.