Converting from 2.7 with parport to 2.8.4 with 7i96s

My old controller pc finally bit the dust (can't complain too much as it's been in a dusty environment since 2009 or so when I built the machine (running on emc2.4!!!).

I'm replacing it with a new pc, and decided to abandon some of the fun timing-related issues that come with parallel port machines, and replace the parallel interface to my gecko g540 with a new mesa board.  I got the idc to 25 pin ribbon cable adapter and the cables to attach it to the g540 and will be attempting to use the mesa-g540 firmware image that someone provided here on the board.

Is there a simple way to convert my (thankfully saved) configuration files that I was using on 2.7 to 2.8.4 with the mesa?  

I have a dual-motor Y axis on my machine, and I'm worried about trying to get the logic correct again (the original files are dated 2009!), so it would be far easier if I could just change the pin names in the .hal file to match what it's expecting.

I attached config files if anybody is interested in taking a look at how much trouble I might be causing myself doing it this way?

Or is it easier to just re-gen everything from scratch using pncconf?

Thanks in advance!

There isn't simple way of converting a parallel port config into a 7i96s config. Mostly because this won't be a plug compatible change. You will be moving the control wirign from Parallel port BOB terminals to the new Mesa card's terminals The easiest path would be to build a new config for the 7i96s. Now if you were doing a switch to a Mesa DB-25 card (such as a 5i25 or 7i92 and retaining your old parallel port wiring scheme, then it might be theoretically possible for a conversion script to convert your old config to a Mesa one. But I'm not sure anyone has actually bothered to creatsuch a conversion program. Also There could be a further fly in the ointment of such a plan, if your existing parallel port config uses a pin in a way that might be incompatible with how the Mesa card's firmware is setup (such as step-gens on the wrong pins.)

I would simply start over with pncconf or mesact.
A 7I96S hal file will be so different from a parallel port
configuration that It would likely be much more work
to try and convert a parallel port configuration rather than
starting from scratch.

I would use you existing .ini file as a reference for various
machine constants as you create the new configuration.

awesome... that's great news... off the deep end of reconfig I go!