Pinewood derby timer using PC parallel (LPT) port

This is the software for "The Worlds Least Expensive Pinewood Derby Timer" that I created along with my now departed good friend Dave Owen who was VP of engineering at Novell back in the day.

For many years (decades actually) this software was available via a yahoo group called simply PinewoodTimer. Thousands of people from around the world have used this software to time pinewood derbies. Since Yahoo has decided to end it's groups feature I thought it best to make this available elsewhere.

In addition, for the first time, I'm making the original source code for the timer available. The software itself (the DOS executable) has always been free. Over the years many people have asked for a copy of the source and I've always declined, until now.

The copyright in the source code remains in force for the executable.

Copyright (C) 1997-1999 by James H. Brown, Orem, UT
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

License is hereby granted by the author for non-commercial use by any and all
charitable organizations and / or community groups.

The source code is copyrighted by me. If you want to use any part of that, please contact me for permission.

This code was last compiled about 20 years ago using the current Borland C++ compiler at the time. However, with the exception of a few Borland specific preprocessor macros, it should be relatively easily ported to a current C++ compiler.

I've also included the source files for the website as well since this information is helpful for understanding how to build the hardware.

If you have questions, please feel free to ask. I'll try to answer than in a timely fashion.