Allessandro, I was an Amiga developer for 10 years. You should check
out Lattice Semiconductor's isp GAL and CPLD devices. There are free C
routines (ispCODE) for taking a JEDEC file and programming their parts
in-circuit with a standard 5V supply. I was going to port the routines
to the Amiga but I never got around to it. As far as writing a compiler,
you are mostly out of luck although Lattice does provide detailed
programming specs. Check out their web site at:

      www.latticesemi.com

   - Tom

At 09:49 AM 2/22/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Il 22-Feb-98, Eric Smith scrisse:
>
>> Alessandro Zummo <azummo@ITA.FLASHNET.IT> writes:
>>> I know there are many programmers, but there's a problem..
>>> i've an Amiga and i don't want to buy a pc nor
>>> want to use it!
>
>> I've got all sorts of computers that I prefer to the PC.  But like me,
>> you are going to have to face the reality that if you want to do
>> engineering work, you have to do it on a platform for which engineering
>> tools are available.
>
>> What do you suppose the relative market sizes are for device programmers
>> for the Amiga, vs. device programmers for the PC?
>
>Simply...there isn't a market for device programmers on the Amiga.  There
>are some eprom programmers in the freeware world, even some
>PIC and GAL programmers... but they are often incomplete, so i've decided to
>write my own programmer... when i will need to program Xilinx
>or similar devices i will probably ask a friend to do that
>or, at least, i will buy a PC emulator. My programmer will probably
>be able to burn PIC,Eprom,e2prom, i2c and GAL devices, which
>is quite enough for me...my motto is: when something
>isn't available, do it yourself... in these years the
>Amiga is survived thanks to guys who followed this motto...
>
>--
>
>   - *Alex* -
>
>      (azummo@ita.flashnet.it)
>  (http://freepage.logicom.it/azummo/) <- AMIGA related homepage!
>
>