Having the interface on a breadboard, I started on the software. My first choice was a VB6 program, that could scan the lines and review them. I wrote it around two Printer port libraries, inpout.dll and Win95io.dll, to see the speed differences. The LogAna.exe scan routines reads the data and status ports, 2048000 bytes each, to memory. While scanning I found that the speed was much to slow for my needs. My next option was to create a MSDOS program in assembly, writing bytes to the hard disc during reading the port. The scanning can be done with visible signals on the screen or without, which makes it faster. With the /d option files can be read back and are shown like the screen shot on the right. The software can be downloaded here as a complete package, both LogAna.exe and LA.COM, with all the sources. In the future The options are limited to gain speed. The fastest option I believe in, is a non OS, machine code routine which is booted from a multi boot environment. If you like to participate in this project because of your knowledge or interest, please, let me know!
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