Hi,

I think I've been fairly quiet recently, but I expect most of you
don't want to hear about my programmer yet again.  However, the ever
increasing exposure of PICs in hobby magazines has meant that I am
getting more mail than ever about my DOS based 16C84 programmer.  I
know my stuff is not without it's problems, but I hope a lot of people
are able get it going without too much hassle.  Of course others need
some help and I spend a little of my time every week giving advice by
e-mail.  I'm sure there are still others that have thrown the thing in
the bin in sheer frustration.

To help these people, and perhaps ease my e-mail burden, I have put
together a FAQ file.  It can obtained from the circuit cookbook site
at the University of Alberta as:

ftp://ftp.ee.ualberta.ca/pub/cookbook/comp/ibm/pic84faq.zip

(The programmer stuff is in the same directory as pic84pgm.zip)

Here is a short description of pic84faq.zip:

This file contains answers to frequently asked questions about the
simple 16C84 programmer distributed in PIC84PGM.ZIP.  If you have had
problems getting it working grab this.  Even if you have got it
working, it is worth picking up because it also includes C and QBasic
source to demonstrate how to dump 16C84 program memory as an Intel
Hex file  (No.  The programs can't read protected PICs :-)

If it helps you resurrect an abandoned attempt at getting my programmer
going let me know!

David
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david.tait@man.ac.uk