Hi Folks,

News for PP1, WARP-3, WARP-17, PICSTART 16B, PICSTART 16C and 12CE673/4
users.

For all using any TM4 based programmer (PP1, warp-3, PICSTART 16B pheonix
upgrade), an upgrade TM4 driver is now available at:

ftp://pipeline.com.au/users/newfound/zip/tm4-com.zip

This driver adds the 12CE763 and 12CE674 parts with seperate choices for
the OTP and JW varieties. This choice allows for the preprgrammed CAL WORD
in the OTP parts as his location is not to be over written or blank
checked.  For a virgin, unerased  JW part, please program it (after you
scratch the CAL WORD on the bottom of the chip of course)  as an OTP part
as the CAL WORD is still intact.

12C761 and 12C672 parts have always been supported in the existing driver
not withstanding the fact that they were incorrectly marked as 16C67x
parts. Duh! Anyway the OTP feature never was implimented  until now.

PICSTART 16C: I have both a drop in replacement 17CXX firmware chip and
better still a 18-pin or 28-pin wire-it-in-yourself  firmware replacement
that allows the PICSTART 16C to program EVERY ISP program mode chip. These
are types currently supported:

12C(E)508/509
12C(E)671/672/673/674
16C620/621/622
16C554/556/558
16C61/62/62/63/63/64/65/66/67 +A types
16C641/642/661/662
16C71/710/711/715/72/73/74/76/77 +A types
16F83/84/C84
16C923/924
14000


The 18/28-pin wire-in replacement means that you can use your own PICSTART
16C to program your own firmware replacement chip, a 16C84 would be ideal
but a 16C62 is good if you don't (YET) have a 16C84 programmer.

Anyway, this has remained on my harddisk for around 6 months now. Is there
any interest in this upgrade? Please email me directly at
newfound@pipeline.com.au if you are interested.

Warp-17 users with the TM4 type firmware and driver please download your
upgrade from here:

ftp://pipeline.com.au/users/newfound/zip/warp-17.zip

This driver uses  the FIFO on the UART and works much better under windows
3.1 and 95.

Thanks for the bandwidth.

Jim