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I/O Ports

These settings let you control how parallel, serial and MIDI port emulations work.

WinUAE - I/O Ports

Parallel Port

Printer lets you specify which PC installed printer you want to use for printing on the Amiga side.
Type can be Passthrough (the data is sent to the printer unchanged), ASCII-Only for text only printing, Epson Matrix Printer Emulation (9pin or 48pin), PostScript (Passthrough) or PostScript (Emulation), which uses Ghostscript. See Printing for details.
Flush print job sends what has been printed so far to the printer right away.
Autoflush is the time in seconds after which this happens automatically.
Ghostscript extra parameters are additional command line parameters to open Ghostscript with.
Sampler can be None or one of the recording devices of your PC.
Stereo sampler is available if the sound sampler has been selected.

Serial Port

The drop down menu allows which host port to use. All ports including virtual ports on your PC will be available.
Shared will keep the port available for other programs
Host RTS/CTS handshaking can be enabled if it's required for modems or similar devices
Direct will fix PC to PC Lotus 2 serial link problems
uaeserial.device for access to different types of serial ports if a program requires it including multiple ports and unit numbers.
Serial Status for handshake/status pin emulation of RTS, CTS, DTR, DTE and CD.
Serial Status for handshake/status pin emulation of Ring Indicator.

MIDI

Out specifies the MIDI output device
In specifies the MIDI input device
Route MIDI in to MIDI Out forwards all input directly to the output device

Protection Dongle

Using the drop down list, one of the supported dongle types can be selected.