=->Hello list!
=->
=->Does anyone use the EPIC Plus Pocket PIC Programmer from
microEngineering
=->Do you think it is a good programmer? And the software, how is it?
=->With the EPIC Plus, would it be possible to use the MPASM assembler to
assemble
=->a program and then using there software to transfer the hex file to the
chip?
=->
=->What I meen is I don't have to use there assembler that comes with the
EPIC
=->Plus programmer right? I could just use there program to program the
chip?
=->
=->Please reply as soon as possible & thanks al lot!
=->Jean-Francois Joly ..(jolyal@capitalnet.com)
=->
Jean-Francois:

I recently got the EPIC programmer and it works very well.  No problems at
all.  Except ( :) ): In order to load files assembled with MPASM, you need
to add a line to your HEX file as the second to last line.  You can copy
this line from one of the sample HEX files that come with their software or
type int in your self.  I've listed it below FYI:

:04400E00F93F010075

This will allow a MPASM file to work perfectly.  The EPIC comes with the
program to load the hex file to the device.

I'm working on a EXE file that will make this change for you/me and when I
get it done, I'll send you a copy if you want.  I don't want to get
overwhelmed with requests for copies so if someone has a site where it
could be accessed, let me know and I'll send it to them when I get it done.
Maybe MEL would want it.  They (MEL) said sometime in the future, the'd
probably have a new release that would cure this slight problem but in the
meantime the manual fix works fine and my program (to be written this week)
will make the change easier.

Scott