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Using a mdified TouCam with the new breed of laptops
my laptop crashed recently and has been replaced by one of very ancient lineage which i fear may soon also go to the great junk yard in the sky
I would buy a new one but none of these have parallel ports. I need a parallel port to use the TouCam in long exposure mode as I cant find guide stars otherwise especially from my backyard which is where I do most of my imaging from
I know there are usb-parallel convertors, but these show up as virtual parallel ports (i have tried on my son's laptop which is very new) and neither k3ccd nor guidedog recognise this virtual port-these programs look for LPT1 or LPT2 etc.
so is there anything at all I can do to continue using my trusty modified Toucam as a guide camera with Guidedog but with the new breed of laptops?
I really dont want to buy a new guide camera at this point in time
any help greatly appreciated
Narayan
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