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The LCD panel


Take a cheap LCD panel based on the widely known HD44780 chip. Its connector will have 14 pins (16 if backlighted) which you will connect to the parallel port as follows :

LCD pinwired to LCD pinwired to
1,3,5power ground, // 18-259// 4 (D2)
2power +5 volts10// 5 (D3)
4// 14 (feed)11// 6 (D4)
6// 1 (strobe)12// 7 (D5)
7// 2 (D0)13// 8 (D6)
8// 3 (D1)14// 9 (D7)

The +5v power should be directly connected to the power supply. If you are just doing some tests on your standard PC, you can take the +5v from the joystick output (pin 8).
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