Hi,

I completely agree; though I prefer serial port due to parallel as I have
timing problems with a Cyrix PR-200MMX despite PIPELOOP, but the real
Parallax programmer is very fine. And now the bad news: Parallax had
informed me they stopped to support their programmer and they gave it away
to Carmacon. So far, so good. My real problem is: I do not use Window$ due
to technical and practical reasons. I am now going to try the parallel
programmer of Bojan Dobaj. Though it is also a parallel port programmer,
but it has a text format configuration file where one can insert new
processor types. If the project ready, I'll report. I think the shareware
fee of $20 is modest compared with the quality of the stuff.

Imre



On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Mark Willis wrote:

> Andy Kunz wrote:
> >
> > >>>   Come to think of it, I'd better upgrade my older Parallax programmer
> > >>> for this programming change!
> > >
> > >Parallax? Good luck!
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > He probably means the Parallax programmer with the Carmacon software in it.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > ==================================================================
> > Andy Kunz - Statistical Research, Inc. - Westfield, New Jersey USA
> > ==================================================================
>
>   Parallax has a $50 firmware upgrade available on their web pages;
> I've had that programmer for over a year, it needs more recent device
> support anyways (unless I just use the PCPlus for recent chips.)
>
>   I much prefer Parallel port interfaces, serial ports aren't commonly
> free on my machines & everything else I develop embedded stuff with is
> parallel-based, EMP-20 & the Parallax unit, I had to add a serial port &
> lose modem use on my embedded machine to get the use of the PCPlus
> programmer;  I seriously doubt I'll change the Parallax unit over to
> Carmacon style, unless there's some real advantage to doing so, to me!
>
>   (Had to stop PIC work for much of a year due to work, and moving, so
> maybe there's something I don't know here.)
>
>   Mark, mwillis@nwlink.com
>
>