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17 years ago

Connecting UP3 (byteblaster II) to computer via USB to parallel cable

HI, I just bought a UP3 and I wanted to connect it to my laptop. My laptop doesn’t have a parallel port, so I bought an usb to parallel cable, but when I’m trying to connect it to the software Quartu...
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17 years ago

I think the Byteblaster has been delivered with the UP3 Dev Kit. But as said, it doesn't work with USB-to-LPT adapters, that don't provide the legacy LPT port registers required by the ByteBlaster driver. For a notebook, the least cost solutions are a Terasic USBBlaster or a PC-Card(PCMCIA) true LPT-adapter.