(URGENT) Parallel Port Bidirectional? I really need to get this done

[Kenster102.5]

So I am taking a Grade 11 Engineering Class, and my current project had me using a car model or creating a car with working lights, and it would be recieving via Parallel Port, instructions from Turing 4.1.1, should light different LED's up based on a selection program to run the lights. I have built my own Parallel Port Cable, crimping pins, grounded pin 18, etc. I know that I have to go into BIOS and set the port for Bidirectional. So do a select EPP, ECP. Is it the COM Port, or the ECP Printer Port, that will be changed
Thanks
Ken

[HeavenAgain]

after googling for the picture, ECP Printer Port looks like the one you will be using (since COM Port doesnt even have 18 pins, and thats the one i used at school)

but i have no idea about that BIOS part.

hmm other that that good luck

[Wolf_Destiny]

Since you're using the parallel port why the hellz are you thinking that the bios has to be changed?
There are two important commands here:
parallelput and parallelget
Look them up, that's how you output and input with the parallel port. Didn't your teacher tell you that?
Also if you're just turning on and off lights why should it be bidirectional, aren't you just outputting to the car?