Yeah, I've run LCD panels from Parallel ports. That was a few thousand years ago. I seem to remember the setup was a pain, but once you got it going, it was cake. 

Yeah, thing is, though, that USB-Parallel adapters are interfaced with entirely differently than a built-in parallel port... which is why we don't see those ol' parallel-port chip-programmers connected to USB dongles. Ironically, the same thing that makes them less-capable of working with those sorts of devices might be exactly what might make 'em work as the "bus" needed for sdramThingZero. So, am thinking of trying to keep its bus interface compatible with 'em. We'll see. So far it's freezing when trying to send data, so I may be entirely mistaken.