https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54314
--- Comment #15 from Matthew D'Asaro medasaro@comcast.net --- I thought I would give this a little poke. It would be amazing if we could have support for this back again. The proposed solution - giving Wine direct access to the address where the parallel port is - only works if the software program allows you to specify the IO port arbitrarily or if you have an old enough PC that the parallel port is actually at 0x278 / 0x378. The Willem programmer does not allow arbitrary addresses and I haven't found a way to remap the address of my PCI parallel port card to the standard 0x278 / 0x378. This wasn't a problem with old Wine versions as Wine remapped those addresses to /dev/partport0 which the parport kernel driver mapped to the actual hardware address. If someone can propose an architecture that we would like to use to implement this again, I am happy to work on coding it up.
-Matthew