Articles tagged “Remapped IO.DLL”
Updating remapped IO.DLL: The venerable Willem programmer still works on 64-bit Windows 10!
A few years ago I posted about a way to get the Willem chip programmer to work with modern PCI parallel ports via a DLL that remapped the legacy port addresses to the ones of your modern card (in my case my card is installed at 0xCCD8 instead of 0x378). Since its release I've had several people contact me asking for advice and support, including a few questions about 64-bit support. Until recently I had been using a 32-bit OS and as such hadn't run into compatibility issues myself. I had replaced the DLL in the zip archive for the project with an allegedly 64-bit-compatible version of the inpout32.dll library that the is used to access the I/O ports but I was unable to test this myself, however it still worked in a 32-bit OS so hoped that it would also work on a 64-bit OS as claimed.
Remapped IO.DLL
A common problem with software that uses the parallel port is that is hard-coded to use particular port addresses, such as 0x378 for LPT1. This is all well and good on older machines that have integrated or ISA ports that can be assigned this base address, but newer machines with PCI cards don't get any choice over which port address range is assigned to the parallel port. Programming an AM29F010B with a PCI parallel port. The supporting software for the Willem programmer has this problem, and so far I've been using an old XP laptop with a flaky WiFi adapter to program chips.