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Porttalk is a driver that enables applications to access hardware's I/Os directly, like it was possible in Windows 98. Porttalk consists basically of two files:
porttalk.sys: The actual driver
allowio.exe: Application which takes another application.exe and I/O adresses as parameter and enables it to access them directly.
Example call:
allowio.exe 0x300 0x310 beep.exe
This would start beep.exe and enable it to access I/O address 0x300 to 0x310 directly.
I know that porttalk worked in Windows XP. Now I need to port an application to Windows 10 but the application seems unable to access the addresses directly. I could not find any confirmation that porttalk won't work in Windows 10.
Is porttalk (or similar drivers) still compatible with Windows 10? I could imagine that Windows 10 prohibited the possiblity of directly accessing hardware I/Os completely in order to increase security.
arminb
Posted 2018-07-03T07:22:24.730
Reputation: 218
http://semantic.gs/porttalk_driver_v2_download claims it works with Windows 10. – DavidPostill – 2018-07-03T07:38:20.913
@DavidPostill this looks like a scam website to be honset. – arminb – 2018-07-03T07:46:56.347
{shrug} when downloading/instaling anything you should take appropriate precautions – DavidPostill – 2018-07-03T07:53:50.850
1@DavidPostill Why not double check suspicious websites before posting them? That'd help too. – arminb – 2018-07-03T08:05:09.817