Jamie Morken's C++ Version of A2DMAX

The following email was received from Jamie Morken, who has worked hard on this project. We thank him for his contributions. I haven't tried to compile this myself, and cannot answer questions about it.

Dear Jim,
I finally was able to make c/c++ software to communicate with the max186! Your code helped me and those hard to read 'maxim' datasheets did too. Feel free to do whatever you want to with the code, since you wrote the first version anyway! My code doesn't need the timing channel hooked up to the chip, but it will still work if the timing channel is hooked up. It is based on the circuit you made and is 100% compatible with it. You can select any number between 1 to 8 of the analogue in channels, and it will read them in order. It is quite fast, certainly over 5000 samples/second. Using a routine I found on the net, the code autodetects the parallel port base address (DPORT), given the LPT port number, so the user only needs enter his/her LPT port number. I hope to make a graphical version, but I have a software problem that I was hoping you could help me with first. The code will only work on standard parallel ports. I took it to my friends house to try it out (he has a ps/2 port) and it didn't work. PS/2 ports can be set to input or output using bit 5 on the control register (DPORT+2) but this wouldn't work for me. This is a big thing holding me back, as I want to make it compatible with newer computers which have ps/2 ports, before I put any graphical components into it. Thanks for being generous enough to put your design on the web, it was the only reason that I was able to make the c/c++ version. If you need a compiled version, please mail me back. I used Borland c++ 4.52, but the source should work with any standard c++ compiler. It won't compile under c because I used <iostream.h>, a c++ input/output library.
Sincerly, Jamie Morken CLICK HERE FOR JAMIE'S C++ CODE