Hello everybody,
I own a Rome mp3 player (http://www.romemp3.com) that connects to the PC
via a parallel port. Unfortunately the software is only available for
MS-Windows. I'd like to have a GNU/Linux software for this device and am
willing to write it, but the compagny never answered to my mails asking
for specifications.
So the best solution is to study the protocol in order to get how things
are working. Unfortunately, this is the first time I do such a
development. I guess the first step is to find a way to 'sniff' the
parallel port while using the Windows 98 software in order to find out
how it works. I've searched for a software that would allow such a
thing, but unfortunately I found nothing really usuable (portmon seems
to be nice, but since the software use it's own VxD it doesn't intercept
the communications). Another solution would be to twiddle a bit with
some hardware to read the port results, but yet I don't know much about
this matter. Since there seems to be lots of people here who know this
subject, I'd be gratefull if someone could point me to the solution he
used for his own development. The prefered solution being the easiest
one, a sniffing software. :)
Also, I was wondering what you guys are thinking about the legal issues
involved with such a hack (that's nothing else than reverse
engineering), and whether it is safe to do this outside the US.
Thanks in advance,
Alex.
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